I'm happy to see heterodox rebuttals to Trump's virtue signaling: his "free speech" proposal will antagonize the vast majority of higher ed stakeholders, & in any event represents the kind of top-down imposition conservatives should naturally reject, writes @Musa_alGharbi.https://twitter.com/PostOpinions/status/1103068675328757760 …
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Top down how? By whom? Isn’t it already protected by the courts?
No. No it's isn't. Universities can invent infringements on free speech faster than courts can knock them down. And you're asking faculty and students to invest all their time litigating....
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But imagine a new federal law. Then imagine how much time universities spent debating it, implementing it, carving out exemptions, & perhaps going to court over it. The shit-show that's the 2011 Dear Colleague Letter is a good example here.
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To take it a step further, I actually think Dear Colleague is a great example of how ineffective these approaches often are, as I explain here: https://twitter.com/Musa_alGharbi/status/1103175779494572032 … Did they change the administrative culture? Sure. For the better? Not so much. Situation meaningfully improved?
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Agreed. Left-wing institutions already rely on suppressing free expression and compelling expression. CC
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