[hinckley buzzard]

There are over 130,000 college level professors in the United States. A little over 1000 signed this letter. Shows what we are up against.k

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Underscoring the problem is the fact that purse strings — funding resources — are tied to following the accepted narrative instead of a free exchange of ideas, Cochrane said.

I interpret that somewhat oblique statement to mean that the heavy hand of the federal government and their money (i.e., OUR money) is what stifles free speech on campus.

[Regulator]

What’s shocking is that in the year 2022 they even have to consider doing this.

[lepton]

bump

[mylife]

a fine school

[RoosterRedux]

I just posted that article and link on Twitter on a thread complaining about scientists not doing research on UFO’s (hot topic, gets lots of views).

[Huskrrrr]

I just added my name. I teach at Foothill College, just down the road from Stanford.

[lurk]

It would help to sequester the woke courses and departments from functional real life majors.

[sauropod]

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[Amendment10]

Probably a part of the problem with academic freedom is this. Victims of public universities who have been denied their free speech for example, have probably never been taught about their 14th Amendment (14A) protections to the extent that they are able to use 14A to protect themselves when a university "shuts off their microphone" for example. Lack of practical knowledge of 14A has probably also been a problem with Christian cake makers.

Another part of the problem with 14A is that, until patriots can vote all of the crooks out of Congress, patriots cannot expect Congress to do its 14A duty to make penal laws to discourage public university suppression of speech.

Excerpted from 14A:

• "Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws [emphasis added]."

• "Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

On the other hand, note that 14A has relatively recently been successfully applied in a UC Berkeley case of speech abridgment.

UC Berkeley settles landmark free speech lawsuit, will pay $70,000 to conservative group (12.4.18)

What Congress probably needs to make sure in public university cases like Berkeley is that the university state actors who abridged someone's free speech protection for example, personally pay the settlement, not the state's taxpayers.