UConn Student Group Under Fire for Merely Defending Free Speech

UConn Student Group Under Fire for Merely Defending Free Speech

Just the simple act of defending free speech on campus can put you at risk. Meanwhile, the campus left shuts people down by claiming they feel unsafe on campus.

The College Fix reports:

Facing down ISIS beheading video and racial slurs, free speech activists at UConn vow to fight on

A group of politically moderate students have become targets for name-calling and threats for writing a pro-free speech “UConn Statement” and bringing it before the student government.

The statement reads in part that “Members of the University community are free to criticize and contest the views expressed on campus. … To this end, the University has a solemn responsibility not only to promote a lively and fearless freedom of debate and deliberation, but also to protect that freedom when others attempt to restrict it.”

Its authors have been accused of white supremacy and one of them even received an ISIS beheading video.

After tempers flared within the student government over the effort, it was shelved during the spring semester, but the student authors said they plan to bring it forth again come fall semester.

“If not us, then who? We’re the last hold,” said co-author John Ross, a senior and one of the few conservative senators in UConn’s student government. “This is going on nationwide. … It has to start with us.”

Fellow co-author, economics and political science major Isadore Johnson, said bringing the statement to the student government illustrated just how opposed students are to free speech.

Johnson, a regional coordinator for Students For Liberty, said that while most of the campus is moderately left, there are activist wings that are “really left and exclusionary,” and some have weaponized UConn’s bias reporting system against people they labeled “dissidents.”

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