What an arrogant, condescending and insulting "progressive belief"!!
Such tyrannical measures have no place in a nation where "rights of conscience" and "freedom of expression" were carved out, even in the late-1700's in America, as boundaries past which government could not intervene in the lives of individual citizens.
If we, as individuals, become "sheep" who will submit to such improper use of our taxpayer dollars, then the "progressive" regressive wolves will surely kill freedom within our lifetimes.
American campuses have become halls of indoctrination.
They can start by breaking a few rioters heads and arresting their enablers
Rumor going around that Gaga is going to wear a Burka tonight....how many right wingers will riot and go tear up houston because of it??? None
Republicans continue to be the worst kind of traitors to the constitution and America. The Democrats are open about being traitors. Republicans hide and dissemble the fact they have long lost their manhood. Name one Republican who is ahead of Trump on the issues. Screw the uni party.
Kurtz continued, “If true freedom of speech is ‘freedom for the thought that we hate,’ then freedom is actually a form of self-mastery. Far from being license, true freedom is actually an act of self-control, a refusal to physically extinguish even the speech we abhor.”
From 2 Timothy 1:7 (NLT):
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
The bill would restore free speech on campus through several means.First and foremost, schools would have to eliminate speech codes, speech zones, and other policies that unreasonably restrict speech.
They would also have to discipline students who break the free speech rules.
Another provision is that state colleges and universities would have to include in their orientations a discussion of the importance of free speech and tolerance for dissenting views. While it doesn’t specify this, schools should consider assigning John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty in addition to or perhaps instead of the “summer book” they often assign to incoming students. That would be far more instructive than the usual soppy, politically-themed books they usually choose – see this report by the National Association of Scholars in that regard.
And capping everything off, the bill requires the creation of a Committee on Free Expression within the board of trustees of each state college and university. These committees would be charged with issuing a yearly report on the status of free expression on campus, a report that would go to the governor, the state legislature, and be available to the public. This obligation would, Kurtz argues, create a counterforce to the pressure that anti-free speech agitators put on school officials.
Graduate & Professional Degree ping.
To be added or dropped, freepmail Albion Wilde.
Thats all well and good but College’s cant simply be required to do something and then not face repercussions when they fail to comply. The number one way is financial, threaten to take funds away from research programs, suspend state grant payments for students, etc etc. Some may skate by on donations from the wealthy but the vast majority will quickly have to adjust or die.
Require the protection of free speech on any campus receiving Federal or state funds, adn cut off their money if they do not comply.
Only a very few — my alma mater the most notable among them — don’t receive government money, and they’re mostly good on free speech.
I don’t know about legislation, because legislating, even to protect free speech, is a huge can of worms.
What about, instead, a report on the tolerance atmosphere of each college and university? It could be similar to the academic assessments of each school that are published frequently. Such a report could cover the political leanings of professors, to what extent they base their curricula on their personal politics, whether all students feel equally welcome to express their opinions and whether they feel that expressing their opinion would affect their grades, and so on. Schools with politically balanced faculties (and a minimum of demagogues) would get higher scores than schools with majority leftist nutjob faculties. The scores would have to be calculated for each department, since science departments tend to be more resistant to political extremism than sociology departments.
Such a report would be time consuming to prepare, but would be very useful to people deciding where to attend college or whether their alma mater deserves to keep receiving donations.
State legislatures in States that voted for Trump and have prominent State Universities (Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona) should enact the model speech law proposed by the Goldwater Institute, or something like it!!
The failed State of California, with its university riots and “sanctuary” policies, is headed first for total defunding and later for martial law, with the National Guard running major cities.
The left will howl bloody murder and impeachment, and the “Antifa” terrorists will rule the streets—until the National Guard cleans them out for good!!!! But then California can be reorganized, including deporting massive numbers of illegals and instituting a free speech law for State universities.