This essay illustrates how the loudest proponents of “free speech culture” have contributed to normalizing state censorship. Read it. Some key points:
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Carl T. Bergstrom
"Mr. Weiner is the president of Assumption University"
Remarkably, no part of the byline is a euphemism.
Remarkably, no part of the byline is a euphemism.
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It’s hardly a bastion wokeness or cancel culture. (That would be Clark University.)
This is like No Labels complaining about Democrats being too liberal.
Free speech does not and never HAS meant that another cannot use THEIR free speech against your speech!
*yep, at assumption university
The entire point of making “cancel culture” as bad as state censorship is justifying a state response.
Might such a concept be used to quell voting?
Avoid paywall link to nytimes article referenced in original linked post: https://archive.ph/9qMw7
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/college-universities-trump-policies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.704.45pP.70Z87FSN_89H&smid=url-share
https://bsky.app/profile/valoisdubins.bsky.social/post/3llkweg67ok24
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/college-universities-trump-policies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.704.yEBI.hf-QBQjdmocv&smid=url-share
I have a gift subscription to NYTimes and find that archive lets me read articles while the Times freezes the page.
And because of that the left forced the hand of the fascists.
Assumption University is a private catholic college. 75% of students are white. 5% are Black.
I learned a LOT from him and emerged from law school better educated but neither a Marxist nor a mung bean devotee.
College is for all ideas.
Meanwhile, this op-ed writer wants us to know that some professors talk about climate change too much for his personal taste (despite him not in any way being an authority on the matter), and that's the real problem with America.