U.S. colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war demonstrations
U.S. colleges revise rules on free speech in hopes of containing anti-war demonstrations
Some of the new rules include banning encampments, limiting the duration of demonstrations and allowing protests only in designated spaces.
Kinda defeats the purpose of protests eh? They're meant to be in your face so that you can't just walk by.
There's a fine line between protest and harassment. At some point you're just doing the equivalent of screaming at a McDonald's cashier about the quality of their food.
Freedom to protest*
*Conditions apply.
Remind me again how did we get those free speech rules on college campuses in the first place? What was it in response to? Oh right the inability to protest the Vietnam war and the demand from students of that era and the one that followed to be allowed to protest.
Only aside from Iraq which didn't last that long to my recollection every major protest movement has been against either enemies of the US or those the US is ambivalent about like South Africa.
So this "right" has never really annoyed the powers that be until now with the pro-Palestine solidarity stuff and now they have to crush it and now all the pretensions of liberalism to caring about free speech and expression and thought are being put away and we're assured these people represent hate and must be crushed.
Seems like we never really had that right. It was a concession given then never expected to be used again and now that it has been there's outrage and the iron fist.
Funny how free speech is important again for this post, next lemmy post will be pearl clutching and overdramatic posturing about somewhere letting nazis speak.
Good ole free speech.