Former professor John Cochrane: "I spent much of my last few years of teaching afraid that I would say something that could be misunderstood and thus be offensive to someone."
He remains a tenured faculty member.
"We understand that the context in which this phrase was used resulted in a very painful trigger for many of you."
Her crime? Spelling out what the rap group N.W.A. stands for, and quoting one of their lyrics.
"For me, demands for silence, for avoidance, or for bowdlerization will be offered no deference."
UCLA says complaints -- about the fact that both the excerpt read from King's letter and the video included the word "nigger" -- have "been shared with UCLA’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for review."
From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
"Nothing Betsy DeVos has done since she took office will have a more lasting effect on people's lives than this."
I, however, do not apologize.
They call it a "hate crime against Asian students and scholars."
The mob strategy is morally and practically flawed.
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One member of the student government argued the conservative speaker's presence was inherently discriminatory.
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"On the record before the Court, the movants have demonstrated 'sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation.'"
This is the case where two students were shouting "nigger" loudly when walking by UConn dorms; the students are trying to block university discipline based on their speech, including their eviction from student housing.
The students say their threatened punishment, for walking near student housing shouting "nigger" (at no-one in particular), violates both the First Amendment and a 1990 consent decree.
Asheen Phansey's was responding to President Trump's threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites.
The policy has earned a well-deserved First Amendment lawsuit.
"The point was to engage students in an otherwise dry and difficult subject material."
So reports the Daily Mail (U.K.).
The investigation was launched after the local police chief complained and reached out to the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
"I think if we decide we’re just going to immediately hair-trigger cancel anything that might make anyone uncomfortable, we’re missing a chance to teach.”
Today's censors are using tech policy and social-media outrage to attack your right to think and say what you believe.
Larry Shue's The Foreigner has KKK villains. Administrators think students can't handle that.
"We must remain—especially now—vigilant to any form of discrimination," said National Louis University in a dumb statement.
Bias incident reports, safety concerns, and harassment charges, all because of a slightly trollish Facebook post.
Progressive activists want the newspaper to stop practicing balanced journalism.
"There is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists."
A newspaper staffed by the country's most famous journalism school says it shouldn't have covered a Jeff Sessions event.
Campus conservatism must take the threat of the far right seriously.
"The Undergraduate Council stands in solidarity with the concerns of Act on a Dream, undocumented students, and other marginalized individuals on campus."
"The English Department has a long, well-documented, disturbing history of racism, sexism, transphobia, and other violences."
Same for "Islam is right about women" flyer -- both are labeled "hate-filled flyers" by the University, and apparently the police and the FBI are investigating the distribution of the flyers.
Episode 7 of Free Speech Rules, from UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
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"This idea of purity and you're never compromised, and you're always politically 'woke,' and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly."
The state's hate crimes law—a "rarely enforced relic dating to 1917"—eviscerates free speech.
"Getting both sides isn't always what is fair."
"We are confident that all members of the university community will demonstrate the highest ideals of our university."
The Commission on Human Rights is likely running afoul of the First Amendment.
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