The College Fix – by Jennifer Kabbany
A group of Washington State University professors have decried “discourses of free speech” in an open letter to the campus community, suggesting such defenses of the First Amendment hurt “marginalized students.”
The letter, signed by about two dozen scholars at the school, comes about a month and a half after a 20-foot “Trump Wall” was erected there, prompting a heated protest between students.
“We have witnessed an increase of exclusionary language based on race, citizenship status and religious affiliation in recent months; here on campus, with the erection of a wall and several other incidents on/off campus and in social media, the everyday realities of racism, xenophobia, and other forms of bigotry have been on full display,” states the professors’ letter, which was published in the Daily Evergreen campus newspaper. “Since the election, we have also seen increased acts of harassment and violence on and off campus nationwide.”
The scholars go on to suggest more must be done to crack down on what they consider hate speech and acts, telling the campus community that the defense of freedom of speech and freedom of expression is harmful:
It is not enough [to] encourage “open-mindedness” and “sensitivity” especially when these passive efforts and rhetoric invariably lead to a culture that accepts and tolerates bigotry and harassment; a campus culture that hides behind “tolerance” and discourses of free speech undeviatingly creates a campus that is especially disempowering to marginalized students.
We must create a campus that asserts that we are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-xenophobia, antihomophobic, anti-Islamophobic, anti-ableism, and anti-bigotry. We must work to create mechanisms and structures that combat hate, which empower all constituencies to be active in our collective efforts to rid the campus of bigotry and systemic inequality.
All professors are commies, or they would have been removed long ago.
They did away with “tenure” just so they could fire any professor that didn’t sing the right tune, and the result is that we’re left with an “academia” that’s as devoted to the destruction of our Bill of Rights as the rest of the commies are.
Don’t respect or revere these “professors” because of any education or intelligence they claim to possess. They’re traitors, and they’re brainwashing their students to be traitors, too.
You can be a genius or a wizard, but it’s all for naught without the proper moral compass.
“We must create a campus that asserts that we are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-xenophobia, antihomophobic, anti-Islamophobic, anti-ableism, and anti-bigotry.”
Spoken like a true communist.
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