It’s hilarious to watch the left suddenly leaping to the defense of free speech. We didn’t see them do that as mobs of leftist students shouted down various speakers on campus over the years.The College Fix reports:
U.N. free speech envoy tells Harvard to ‘fight against Trump’The United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and association told a Harvard Law School audience on Tuesday that it needs to battle the Trump administration by standing up for “free speech principles.”Gina Romero, a Colombian national who’s an “expert in dialogue, mediation, building and managing networks” with a focus on “marginalized groups, gender and youth,” also implored the university to “protect international students against deportation threats,” according to The Crimson.“Universities need to figure out on what side of this power struggle they are going to be,” Romero said. “This is a very powerful institution. We are not talking about a very small, poor university in a small isolated place.”Romero (pictured) also said American universities’ dismantlement of pro-Hamas encampments via police represented “bias” against black and Arab students.She also criticized changes in schools’ protest policies and added the fear of deportation will make international students think twice about exercising their rights of free expression and assembly.From the story:
“I cannot see students that are afraid of doing or going to a protest because they don’t want to be deported,” Romero said. “Universities need to protect their own students from those threats and then resist the pressure from external actors.“Coming to the university shouldn’t be a traumatic experience for exercising your rights,” she added.At the Tuesday event, Romero also discussed her own transition to working at the U.N. from the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Democracy. She described receiving the special rapporteur position with the instruction to look into several potential human rights violations in the context of pro-Palestine protest.She said that in many cases reported to the U.N., organizations had maintained “double standards” in their response to protest — specifically restricting pro-Palestine movements. She cited doxxing attacks, physical violence, and “administrative sanctions” at universities.
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