DOJ and Betsy DeVos Criticize College Campuses for Acting Like ‘Mini Police States’
“We stand with their right to speak and with their right to learn truth through the free exchange of ideas—particularly those with which they might disagree”
Given everything we’ve seen in recent years, this is deserved criticism.
Campus Reform reports:
DeVos, DOJ slam campuses behaving as ‘mini police states’
A Mississippi community college is defending itself against allegations from the DOJ and Betsy DeVos that it positions itself as a “police state” and threatens the free speech rights of its students.
In September, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education filed a lawsuit against Jones College after the school threatened to arrest student members of Young Americans for Liberty for their efforts to initiate a conversation about marijuana legalization on campus. The campus police stopped the YAL members from tabling to raise awareness about this issue. FIRE sued the school on behalf of YAL and student Michael Brown.
Now the Department of Justice is weighing in on the matter, releasing a statement insisting that “College campuses should not be mini police states.”
“The United States of America is not a police state,” said assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division Eric Dreiband, adding “Repressive speech codes are the indecent hallmark of despotic, totalitarian regimes. They have absolutely no place in our country.”
US secretary of education Betsy DeVos also weighed in on the free speech of students at Jones County Junior College saying that the situation is “yet another concerning example of students encountering limits on what, when, where, and how they learn.”
“This is happening far too often on our nation’s campuses. This Administration won’t let students be silenced. We stand with their right to speak and with their right to learn truth through the free exchange of ideas—particularly those with which they might disagree,” DeVos added.
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Plenty of room for this to run, and I’m glad the Ed Dept is taking this on. The OCR should get involved, unless DeVos hasn’t been able to fix its former leftist bias.
You mean they aren’t supposed to be the thought police banning any suggestion of BDS? Like Florida’s leaders passed for K-20 education when they were in Israel? And that Trump just insisted upon?
When it comes to BDS and Zionism, they want more than mini for a police state.
You can’t have it both ways.
Disclaimer – I’m against BDS, but also against tyrannical moves to fight it with anything other than discussion and more speech. (and am against BDS if they try intimidation, deplatforming, and doxxing as much when it is used against them).
OK, with the disclaimer we’ll let you drop the “D” and just say that you favor “BS.”