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Re:Stop Demanding Dumb Answers to Hard Questions by onetimeusename on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:38PM (#38571721)
But despite wall-to-wall propaganda about how American colleges routinely suppress any speech seen as remotely racist, many colleges have speech policies that are either vague or that protect speech rather broadly and robustly.

At UPENN a law professor named Amy Wax invited a white nationalist to speak and the law school dean said this [the invitation] "crosses the line of what is acceptable in a University environment where principles of non-discrimination apply,” in a document where he asked the University to impose a “major sanction” on Wax. https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/12/penn-amy-wax-jared-tay...

Amy Wax is currently under investigation by the university https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/01/penn-carey-law-amy-wax.... I would be curious to see what popehat's analysis of this situation is because the talk itself that Wax invited complies with all the guidelines he outlined but yet I get the feeling this talk would be unacceptable but the speech of the pro-Palestinian side is acceptable on campus despite some claiming that it is a call for genocide.

Re:Stop Demanding Dumb Answers to Hard Questions by raincom on Friday December 08, 2023 @02:22PM (#38573013)
The issue boils down to double standards. When certain opinions are 'reasonable' to those in power, it doesn't "cross the line of what is acceptable in a University environment". Whenever one says "double standard", use that cudgel of whataboutism.