As protests continue at campuses across the country, colleges have issued statements reaffirming their principles. The University of Chicago issued a forceful statement, and the University of Florida declared that they are “not a daycare”. Now, the University of California at Santa Barbara has issued a powerful statement addressing the disorder that has broken out on their campus. That statement is below.
We Seem to Be Re-Learning Free Speech Principles From Scratch
Watching the United States — the home of the First Amendment — struggle to respond to student protests has been like watching Albert Einstein struggle to complete the “get Grimace to the fries” maze on the back of a Happy Meal. How did we get here? How did things devolve so badly that pretty-straight-forward free speech issues are treated like unsolvable puzzles? I’m one of those highly punchable “it’s complicated” dweebs, but for once, I’m singing a different tune: This is actually
We're All Noticing the Hypocrisy, Right?
Campus protests have sparked a culture war flare up, which are not typically America’s best moments. Culture war fights are the trash TV of politics: They’re pulpy and inane, and they cut our collective IQ roughly in half. They typically end like an episode of
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“Two-state solution? More like ‘we’d like to state that UCSB is the homeland for hotties!’”