They're not and have never been pro free speech. They just didn't want to be criticized
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London Review of Books
‘It is striking that the loudest ostensible proponents of free speech on campus are the proudest cheerleaders for state repression of pro-Palestine activism on those same campuses.’
Rayan Fakhoury on the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Rayan Fakhoury on the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Selective support reveals intent, not principle.
Silencing dissent isn’t a defense of liberty—
it’s an admission of insecurity.”
Students are essentially powerless. Focusing on students as oppressors of their professors or of well-funded speaker-circuit Nazis was always such an obvious lie. And yet...
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.