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very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

submitted 6 days ago • 251 comments

Look, even if you otherwise tolerate Jesse, I don’t see how you can consume this as anything but blatant bad faith, given his focus on trans-related issues. Plus, it’s a stupid and dishonest point, because “trans athletes” have been the bloody flag the GOP has waved to cause rage and fear.

submitted 47 days ago • 69 comments

This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!

submitted 55 days ago • 12 comments

This level of barbarism was unimaginable 18 months ago. They pulled them out of an ambulance and murdered them one by one, burying them in a shallow grave

submitted 58 days ago • 19 comments

This essay illustrates how the loudest proponents of “free speech culture” have contributed to normalizing state censorship. Read it. Some key points: /1

submitted 59 days ago • 26 comments

it’s not that any one story on ‘illiberal campus leftism’ was inaccurate or uncharitable, or that the phenomenon didn’t exist or never merited coverage, it’s that the editorial priorities that gave it as much coverage as it got are indefensible, and have had *very clear* negative consequences.

submitted 60 days ago • 13 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 60 days ago • 179 comments

Will even one university in the United States issue a statement saying "We will not embrace fascism"?

submitted 61 days ago • 114 comments

Here are the pro-Palestine student activists whom the Trump administration wants to deport over their speech. rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 61 days ago • 11 comments

Someone asked me what to do if you see someone being snatched off the street like those students detained by ICE, and whether you should ask them to tell you their family members’ numbers or their lawyer to notify them, to try to help. It’s a noble sentiment. But… /1

submitted 62 days ago • 51 comments

I wrote about the free speech advocates who spent the last decade pearl clutching about the campus left while (intentionally or unintentionally) manufacturing consent for the right-wing assault on free expression.

submitted 63 days ago • 33 comments

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

submitted 63 days ago • 51 comments

Oh man, who could have seen this coming?

submitted 66 days ago • 145 comments

I feel bad for friends and colleagues at Columbia and wish them all the best as they try to get the hell out of there.

submitted 68 days ago • 190 comments

This time it will work bro. Just one more ceding of ground to the right bro. Trust me bro.

submitted 71 days ago • 17 comments

Students were told for years that, actually, hate speech was protected speech and what was needed at universities. They were told that heckling such speech was itself a sign of intolerance.

submitted 76 days ago • 54 comments

I cannot believe how many Dem leaders are failing the “It is wrong to kidnap people for exercising free speech” test.

submitted 78 days ago • 111 comments