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How Free Speech Died On Campus
theodp writes "The WSJ catches up with FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and his crusade to expose how universities have become the most authoritarian institutions in America. In Unlearning Liberty, Lukianoff notes that baby-boom Americans who remember the student protests of the 1960s tend to assume that U.S. colleges are still some of the freest places on earth. But that idealized university no longer exists. Today, university bureaucrats suppress debate with anti-harassment policies that function as de facto speech codes. FIRE maintains a database of such policies on its website. What they share, lifelong Democrat Lukianoff says, is a view of 'harassment' so broad and so removed from its legal definition that 'literally every student on campus is already guilty.'"
... I'm not surprised to see the carping about how the right-wing is allegedly being oppressed on college campuses. But it also makes me wonder to what extent Christian schools tolerate free speech. The Wikipedia page for Liberty U describes how the school "un-recognized" the Democratic student group for being ideologically unfit.
The man who dies rich dies disgraced. -- Andrew Carnegie
You shouldn't use public university networks or university web sites to promote your religious or political views. If that means you have to go outside campus to update your Bible website, like the rest of us, then so be it. I don't see why I should pay taxes so that you can promote your religion.
It doesn't force you to "be" anything. The policy simply prohibits taxpayer funded resources or the name of a publicly funded university to promote your religious views, whatever they may be.
You're saying that the Wall Street Journal is a no-name site?
Oh, I've got a name for it all right....
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Yeah, that's why so many gays, blacks and females voted for the right-wing candidates! Riiiiight...