NOT BY EXECUTIVE ORDER. Take it to the courts, ffs. Shore up the Constitution by setting a precedent for 1st Amendment protection for any institute, or individual (via Fed student loans), that receive government funding.
OMG I've been advocating this for a couple of years and POTUS says he'll do it! This could be very very big for promoting free speech and ideological diversity in American higher education. #awesome #1Ahttps://twitter.com/CPAC/status/1101915764414541828 …
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@TheFIREorg has been taking campus#1A cases to courts for years, and it doesn't help much. Colleges won't care unless there's an immediate threat to their funding. I've seen it first hand with the Title IX thing. - 11 more replies
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Mark my words, Bt the end of the week MANY schools will object to even the most anodyne statement he can offer.
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And yet, sadly, another cultural problem being solved by the government. If only the campus socialists could keep it in their pants this wouldn't happen.
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The left will ironically label this as authoritarian/totalitarian
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And who would decide if the universities are respecting free speech? What would they need to prove in order to receive funding?
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Documented policy, no overt transgressions and maybe passing a random violence-free-Milo-event test .... ?
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Says the guy who gets offended by the satire of late night comedy shows ...this is rich. I’m all for free speech as long as he agrees people are free to call him out...
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He gets offended because it is well within his right to be offended. Free Speech is a two way street.
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Will this meet with resistance, equivalent to the sanctuary city claims, or will Univs roll over with the slightest threat to funding? (Honest question, non US, so I have no gauge on backbones of US Univs)
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