UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks.
Government can’t use funding threats to override the First Amendment.
Source: swingadmin
UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks.
Government can’t use funding threats to override the First Amendment.
Source: swingadmin
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Good. Public universities shouldn’t have to bend to political pressure just to keep their funding. This ruling is a solid reminder that the First Amendment actually means something, even when those in power hope it doesn’t
> While all of this was ostensibly meant to combat antisemitism, the plaintiffs in this case presented a huge range of quotes from administration officials, including the head of the Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, saying the goal was to suppress certain ideas on campus. “The unrebutted record in this case shows that Defendants have used the threat of investigations and economic sanctions to… coerce the UC to stamp out faculty, staff, and student ‘woke,’ ‘left,’ ‘anti-American,’ ‘anti-Western,’ and ‘Marxist’ speech,” Lin said.
“Marxist” oh boy “Marxist” yeah sure lil conservative bros, I’m sure you people have read the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital to know what “Marxist” is to begin with
Good for UCLA!
Authoritarians love self-censorship. Don’t give it to them.
SCROTUS appeal will rubber-stamp this in Trump’s favor.
The schools that caved should never be allowed ro live down their shameful cowardice.
Way to fight! How horrible to stop research and education already approved!!! Pay attention democrats, this is what Americans want: protecting and fighting for the Constitution. Boo to you, PJ2025!!!
Nightmarish visions of the Thought Police are going through my mind. What a disgusting betrayal of 250 years of US Constitutional freedoms. And done in the name of making Amerika great again?
YAYYYYY!!!! People don’t know how right-wing uni admin has gotten over the past 20 years, sacrificing ethics for $$$$.
It’s sad they needed to be told they couldn’t sell academic freedom so quickly and for so cheap, but not surprising.
Wait, what? That doesn’t seem fair. 🙂