Quote Originally Posted by Sanlmar View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
I actually wish there was no speech standards on campus, aside from targeted harassment.

You want to say offensive shit, let it rip.

But it has to be consistent. There can’t be hyper restricted speech about the blacks, gays, and trans, but a free for all to chant for genocide against the Jews.

That’s what Trump (correctly) tried to fix in 2019, and we now see why there was a need for that.
Yes, hate speech is not protected consistently.

Private schools can and should set a tone and a culture through leadership. You don’t like the environment don’t spend $75k to go there.

If Liberty University (Jerry Falwell’s joint) wants to bounce you for talking shit about Israel, Palestine or Unitarians then I think that should be their privelege.

Doubtful you see this at BYU.

Congress getting involved in speech at institutions that are not Federal is not a good sign of the times. This is hysteria. Never good if you are conservative
If they're receiving federal funding, AND are forced to adhere to various standards in order to get that funding (which they are), then it definitely is Congress' business to get involved here.

As I said, I would love it if colleges could simply become bastions of free speech and expression, regardless of how offensive. That would at least be a fair and consistent way of handling speech issues.

The problem is that colleges have become excessively speech restrictive in the past 30+ years, and this has especially ramped up over the past decade. Hell, you can't even wear "culturally appropriating" Halloween costumes on campus anymore!

So if they're going to make these colleges into safe spaces where nobody can ever be offended in the slightest, they can't also take the position that chanting about genociding Jews is okay.

That's hypocritical, unfair, and discriminatory.

The problem is that these university presidents see racism, homophobia, and transphobia as evil bigotry, whereas hating the Jooooooooooos is kinda okay, because you know... them Jews have it coming for supporting Israel the evil colonizer. Bigotry and genocide is okay if it's against people who disagree with your political positions, you see.