[enumerated]

As a professor, dumb question.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

After all, the woke restrictions were primarily internal, a matter of academic practice, as students, administrators and professors tried to eliminate any shred of skepticism toward diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Can't tolerate any thought-diversity now, can we?

[EnderWiggin1970]

Leftists think they have the inherent right to plunder other people and force them to fund and promote their speech. In their mind it is more wrong to cut off their pillaging of the slave class than it is to censor someone who is speaking on their own dime.

[Rockingham]

Another example of “yes but” reasoning by a Leftist academic. There is no MAGA censorship — except to decline federal funding for institutions that embrace anti-American and anti-Constitutional indoctrination in education. And the effect of Woke censorship and Leftist indoctrination in general is more profound in that they subvert intellectual freedom and reasoned discourse.

[SpaceBar]

Butthurt liberal academic rant.

Doesn’t like ideology when it isn’t his ideology.

[alexander_busek]

Gagging academicians, firing faculty members, expelling students - or subjecting them to "compelled speech" (Dr. Jordan Peterson) - is, morally speaking, incomparably worse than merely withdrawing funding.

The Federal Govt. is not required to subsidize hateful craziness.

Regards,

[Nervous Tick]

>> Crispin Sartwell retired as a philosophy professor in 2023.

Good plan, “Crispin”, if that’s your real name.

Plato or Aristotle, you ain’t!

[clearcarbon]

"It didn’t take long for professors to point out that the right-wing wave of restrictions on expression, spurred by the Trump administration, is far worse than those characteristic of 'the woke era.'”

On a positive note, I like that expression "the woke era" implying it may be something in the rear view mirror.

[sauropod]

Imagine having a first name of “Crispin.”

I can’t.

[Kudsman]

Ya it is fine when BigEd crushes student free speech, but axe a prof that cheers on cold blooded murder and the world is ending. When elites cry they just sound like Charlie Brown’s teachers on a party line.

[ifinnegan]

Funny how they used to say woke censorship didn’t exist.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I’d hate being in grade school with a name like Crispin Sartwell.

[Katya]

I’m equally appalled with both, I honestly thought we were done with the thought police post Biden. On a personal leve, I simply don’t care enough what people say or think generally speaking. I certainly don’t want the gubmint to interject... I get that “conservatives” like certain speech, but don’t think this won’t come back later by the other side when theyve wrestled power for themselves once again.

[albie]

As a Realtor, I’ve seen some stupid asses. But this boob take the cake

[redfreedom]

When an article starts out as “As A Professor” and published by WaPo, I’m confident it’s pure propaganda.

[VRW Conspirator]

MAGA Censorship? Does not pass the smell test.

[Da Coyote]

Any ‘professor’ writing for the post is a sorry-assed professor indeed.

[quantim]

“...withhold federal funds...”

Hey WaPo and retard/libtard professor, there is no such thing as “federal funds” as there are only two things that the feds feed off financially: Usurping OUR dollars off our income or piling on our soon to be $40,000,000,000,000 debt.

Well there is a third one but not real cash, printing money causing inflation.

[Bernard]

attempts to make colleges pledge themselves to Trumpian orthodoxy

Trumpian orthodoxy? You mean pro-American values held by normal people. Sounds like the author has retired, but is still living in his academic fishbowl.

[cuz1961]

the woke restrictions were primarily internal/

Utter bullshit.

Any one who said anything they didn’t like was and is endlessly bashed nationaly on LEGION network media, doxxed, debarked, de platformed, kicked off YouTube, sued and SHOT.

UTTER BULLSHIT it’s internal

SPIT.