Campus Leftists at UChicago say Free Speech Shouldn’t Apply Equally to Everyone

Heat Street ^ | 3:20 pm, February 16, 2017 | Ian Miles Cheong

[Olog-hai]

Students at the prestigious University of Chicago say that free speech should not apply equally to everyone. The students objected to the school’s Institute of Politics’ invitation to former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. They claim that allowing him to speak “normalizes bigotry” and provides a platform for fascism.

Lewandowski did not join the White House staff but by many accounts remains an influential advisor to the president.

The coalition of students from U of C Resists, Graduate Students United, Students Working Against Prisons, and UChicago Socialists claim that the school’s “commitment to free expression” doesn’t require the institution to host him due to his alleged ties to white supremacists and similarly alleged calls to violence against minority groups and refugees.

They told Campus Reform that they did not call for the University to disinvite him, but rather “encouraged [the person who invited him] to reconsider and rescind the invitation,” as if it makes a difference. …

[jazminerose]

And where might I find that in the Constitution?

[Aaron0617]

And where might I find that in the Constitution?

Under the section: All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others

[Bob434]

ok then, let’s begin by rescinding the right to free speech just for UChicago idiots- Jail time to any UChicago dolt who dares open their mouth in public

Then we’ll move on to BERKLEY, and then on to ...

[Olog-hai]

In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the USSR are guaranteed by law:

1. freedom of speech;
2. freedom of the press;
3. freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
4. freedom of street processions and demonstrations.

These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.

— 1936 USSR constitution, Article 125

In accordance with the interests of the people and in order to strengthen and develop the socialist system, citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly, meetings, street processions and demonstrations.

Exercise of these political freedoms is ensured by putting public buildings, streets and squares at the disposal of the working people and their organizations, by broad dissemination of information, and by the opportunity to use the press, television, and radio.

— 1977 USSR constitution, Article 50

Citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.

— Red China constitution, adopted 1982

Those are the constitutions those student organizations read. Notice the caveats, as well as the “positive” grant of rights by government versus the “negative liberties” that Obama openly decried (i.e. rights possessed by the people inherently that the government can never take away).

[FlingWingFlyer]

They’ve been successfully programed by their Marxist tutors. “Say whatever you like. Just don’t say anything you don’t like.”

[Olog-hai]

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

They are opponents of this notion. (Written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall about Voltaire’s stance on free speech.)

[wardaddy]

Chicago is one of the few holdouts against the overwhelming liberalism of the faculty-student alliances

They proclaim you need to come to learn not protest

[ptsal]

Ninth Circus Special Opinion

[samtheman]

The irony of all this is so far over the heads of these “students”, that it would be like trying to explain relativity to a canine.

They are not “students” of anything. They are mindless thugs obeying the marching orders of their overlords.

[cyberstoic]

The funny thing is for those who have exercised their second amendment rights, when push comes to shove about these first amendment rights, they still get a say.

[Chode]

in that case, may i suggest you STFU!!!

[wardaddy]

I was at Ole Miss late 70s when it was pretty conservative institution and the student body was very Greek and staid except for beer and gorgeous women

It was still where frequently you met your spouse

I was part of the Lnyrd Skynyrd long haired rowdy freak bros types that were maybe 25%

But the school allowed all manners of progressives to speak

Communist Workers Party

Ralph Nader

Friends of the Earth

Daniel Schorr

Remnants of the Weather Underground who were above ground by then...yes I spoke with them at the new Student Union

Some black progressive groups

And so on.....Ted Kennedy

Arlo Guthrie who I hung out with and who loved the coeds and has since veered right

My point was there was never talk of banning lefties

No way

Universities were open to whatever except violent conflict groups stirring it up

As long as they were peaceful they were welcome and Ole Miss knew violent conflict well just a decade before

I bet now Ole Miss would not allow Milo

I was too left libertarian for lovely Oxford back then

And it is lovely.....a top 5 percent for pretty town and campus and the splittails

But man it’s way way Left now and they just keep streaming in

[onedoug]

...the prestigious University of Chicago....

Once for physics, but long since gone.

This was supposed to be satire, no?

[pfflier]

Some pigs are more equal than others.

[MileHi]

...doesn’t require the institution to host him due to his alleged ties to white supremacists and similarly alleged calls to violence against minority groups and refugees.

More evidence free slander.

[jazminerose]

Ah, my mistake. I’ve been working off of the assumption that we were talking about the US Constitution. Thank you for the clarification.

I should have known.

[jazminerose]

I don’t know about that. I’ve got a Czech German Shepherd puppy who is extraordinarily smart. I’d certainly expect him to out perform a snowflake from a state run indoctrination center.

[samtheman]

I agree with you. Your puppy certainly has more common sense than the average leftist robot.

[Dr. Sivana]

Those types were there for a long time. When I attended the Women’s Union and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA) protested Cardinal O’Connor of NYC giving a talk.