First Harvard, then Pomona (meme group)

maya54
Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:25:50 +0000

It’s Harassment that’s not protected speech by the First Amendment whether on a college campus or elsewhere. Your municipality can have a law that prevents you from harassing your neighbors. (What is harassment is going to be narrowly interpreted.) But nothing changes about your constitutional rights just because you are attending a public university. That’s the point. If the speech code at a public university says, as many do that, insults can be punished ( even though they don’t rise to the level of pervasiveness required to constitute harassment) that speech code is unconstitutional and can not be enforced even though the student “agreed” to it.

And the main point here is that what was going on at Pamona which was not directed at anybody but rather was " talk among ourselves" speech is most definitely not harassment ( Vile though it may be) and thus under California law ( which makes private unis subject to the First Amendment) can not subject a student to punishment.