Greg it is sad that FIRE receives less money and attention than Charlie kirk/Hasan piker, but everyone involved seems very passionate and you all try hard to have a broader appeal and work really hard to push your message to as many people as possible, so i just share my (our) appreciation and hope you all stay motivated. You guys rock!
I appreciate that you’re standing up for colleges even though some of them have their own poor track record on free speech. I think that’s an important issue—the power of the institution or organization trying to stifle speech matters, no? Sure, criticize a student group for attempting to cancel a speaker, that’s fair. But don’t tell me that has the same weight as the federal government clamping down on what a university is allowed to teach. It seems like some free speech activists don’t see any distinction at all, though.
Once again excellent post, especially the links to the two issues at UT in Austin and Dallas, two topics on opposing ends of the cultural-political spectrum, both supported by FIRE.
The push for rescuing drag queen rights is horse shit that popped up about 5 years ago. It cross pollinates with the sexualization of children. It travels on a parallel track with trans and the attempt to again sexualize children. These supporters do not look like parents or grand parents. What they do not understand is when it enters the public bloodstream through public schools they have created an enemy. It is because we are willing to fight you with all we have to protect children.
I commented last time on the “absolutist” notion of free speech. My rather obvious point was that Harvard violates civil rights of Jews, students and faculty by physically and administratively suppressing their rights. That suppression
was executed through free Nazi speech in two ways: organize intimidation of the Jews and pro-Jewish civil rights voices, and also therough pseudo-academic instilling hatred into teaching practice as the theoretical basic of Jewish criminality on individual and nation-state levels.
I want to remind the advocates of the absolutist doctrine that the US had no problem to supress legally and factually free Nazi speech in Germany and other occupied countries in Europe after WWII to the great benefit and enjoyment of the humanity.
It does not mean, however, that every incident of Nazi speech should be banned. First amendment should play its role. But Nazis should be resisted and balanced by free anti-Nazi speech and action when the danger and the scale of its (or its equivalent) organization and influence is self-evident - like it is now at Harvard nd elsewhere. Every "absolutist" approach to the problems of our society is counterproductive and can lead to disaster. Constiution was written and voted not for the extremists but for the normal people who can understand where to stop. Classical conservatives (like Edmund Burke, not Trump) understood this very well when they heard the free speeches in Paris.
I also want to repeat my thesis that the constitutional priciple of "domestic Tranquility" stands side by side with the "Justice" precisely to prevent the absolutist points of view fooling us by the perpetrated by the smart legalist experts The Trumpist assault on Harvard is a very recent adventure; it will subside because among the Trump voters there are many reasonable conservative people. The Woke "resistance" is also in full blossom. But the decaded long entrenched Wokism-Nazism in Ivy League schools met virtually no resistsnce at all; it is a hard nut that must be cracked.
Now it is a time to cast away stones like we did in Europe in 1945. Then we shall gather stones together. And do not tell me it is a slippery slope. Nope.
Greg it is sad that FIRE receives less money and attention than Charlie kirk/Hasan piker, but everyone involved seems very passionate and you all try hard to have a broader appeal and work really hard to push your message to as many people as possible, so i just share my (our) appreciation and hope you all stay motivated. You guys rock!
I appreciate that you’re standing up for colleges even though some of them have their own poor track record on free speech. I think that’s an important issue—the power of the institution or organization trying to stifle speech matters, no? Sure, criticize a student group for attempting to cancel a speaker, that’s fair. But don’t tell me that has the same weight as the federal government clamping down on what a university is allowed to teach. It seems like some free speech activists don’t see any distinction at all, though.
Once again excellent post, especially the links to the two issues at UT in Austin and Dallas, two topics on opposing ends of the cultural-political spectrum, both supported by FIRE.
The push for rescuing drag queen rights is horse shit that popped up about 5 years ago. It cross pollinates with the sexualization of children. It travels on a parallel track with trans and the attempt to again sexualize children. These supporters do not look like parents or grand parents. What they do not understand is when it enters the public bloodstream through public schools they have created an enemy. It is because we are willing to fight you with all we have to protect children.
I commented last time on the “absolutist” notion of free speech. My rather obvious point was that Harvard violates civil rights of Jews, students and faculty by physically and administratively suppressing their rights. That suppression
was executed through free Nazi speech in two ways: organize intimidation of the Jews and pro-Jewish civil rights voices, and also therough pseudo-academic instilling hatred into teaching practice as the theoretical basic of Jewish criminality on individual and nation-state levels.
I want to remind the advocates of the absolutist doctrine that the US had no problem to supress legally and factually free Nazi speech in Germany and other occupied countries in Europe after WWII to the great benefit and enjoyment of the humanity.
It does not mean, however, that every incident of Nazi speech should be banned. First amendment should play its role. But Nazis should be resisted and balanced by free anti-Nazi speech and action when the danger and the scale of its (or its equivalent) organization and influence is self-evident - like it is now at Harvard nd elsewhere. Every "absolutist" approach to the problems of our society is counterproductive and can lead to disaster. Constiution was written and voted not for the extremists but for the normal people who can understand where to stop. Classical conservatives (like Edmund Burke, not Trump) understood this very well when they heard the free speeches in Paris.
I also want to repeat my thesis that the constitutional priciple of "domestic Tranquility" stands side by side with the "Justice" precisely to prevent the absolutist points of view fooling us by the perpetrated by the smart legalist experts The Trumpist assault on Harvard is a very recent adventure; it will subside because among the Trump voters there are many reasonable conservative people. The Woke "resistance" is also in full blossom. But the decaded long entrenched Wokism-Nazism in Ivy League schools met virtually no resistsnce at all; it is a hard nut that must be cracked.
Now it is a time to cast away stones like we did in Europe in 1945. Then we shall gather stones together. And do not tell me it is a slippery slope. Nope.
Does Texas still require all state contractors to sign a loyalty oath to Israel?