The 10 Worst Colleges For Free Speech: 2017

[Ohiodad51]

@alh, you mean like this?

“We will bring all the lawsuits necessary to defend these rights,” Romero said. “We’ll do the work in the courts. You do the work in the streets. People are motivated. They want to be engaged.”

For a recent example of the ACLU “inserting” themselves, see the whole article at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ACLU_RESISTANCE_TRAINING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-11-12-03-42

I don’t think FIRE has ever been quite that aggressive, although I agree that the organization has often affirmatively sought examples of issues they want to pursue. I don’t know that I would go as far as saying they manufacture issues, but I haven’t honestly looked into it that closely. Maybe others without an axe to grind have.

And saying that Lukanoff “deliberately made a joke about burning down an indian village and then wrote about the reaction” is a pretty strained interpretation of what occured. This is from his article in the WaPo:

When I described just how fierce the students’ reaction to Erika’s e-mail had been, the audience seemed skeptical, so for emphasis I said, “You would think that given the reaction to what she had written that she had actually wiped out an Indian village.”

Shortly after, I paused when I heard commotion on the other side of the room: a student appeared to respond to my comments and began putting up posters. I couldn’t make out much of what he said as he fought with the security guard who asked him to leave (the student was not registered for the event), but I agreed he could post the posters and attempted to continue my speech.

As the guard struggled to lead him to the exit, the student yelled, “You people speak like you don’t know the history of the country you pretend to love! And you talk about burning Indian villages, which gets a lot of laughs!”

Word of my “offensive” comment spread quickly. Over 100 students gathered to protest the event, chanting and holding signs reading “Genocide is not a joke.”

One of the event attendees reported to the Yale Daily News that he was spat upon.

The point of my dark quip was to illustrate that students were reacting to Christakis’s e-mail as if she had committed some unspeakable evil, rejecting context, and displaying a burning desire to be offended and censor.