Harvard is a private university; if it wants to admit only students who conform to certain political views, that's its prerogative. (Like private Bible colleges should be free to only admit Christians.) But it should have the integrity & honesty to say so up front. It didn't.
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Being a "private" university is blurred by the fact that it is supported by millions of taxpayer dollars.
True. Ideally, private universities would receive no taxpayer money if they don't support #1A. But that's not the world we're living in.
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They are denying no one First Amendment rights. They simply are providing consequences for juvenile attitudes. Thank goodness, this has become a no consequences country that makes my Green Beret father cringe.
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He said horrible racist things, only apologizing when caught. Disingenuous arguments are a bad look on everyone, professor.
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I wouldn't even call that an apology.
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Agreed. Since however we live in a world where the line between public and private is complicated, I am not sure a simple affirmation of the university's right to refuse admittance to a student based on their being "private" works in this case.
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The kid was caught tossing around the N word like tootsie rolls off a parade float... You can sit here all day long arguing "this wouldn't happen to liberals/ David Hogg, etc." but Kashuv made his bed, bottom line, and now he's lying it.
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Ideally? If a school gets even one penny of taxpayer money it's under the same rules as a public school. That is the law.
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That's a glib answer and it avoids the point of the issue
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The freedom of speech is not the freedom from consequences of speech.
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Thanks for shooting down that 1a garbage right away.
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