Kolek planning to go pro
How 'bout this eclipse?
Limiting someone's ability to speak at an academic institution has all sorts of negative consequences. However that is not "banning free speech."
Oh please. Freedom of Speech is under attack throughout the world. Including here in the United States.
Your logic is obtuse. Forget about slavery, the right to tax, regulate commerce, or any other specific matter. The issue of treason by citizens of the Confederacy rests entirely on the right of a sovereign state to secede.
That's not what you said before. You said: "One of the most offensive weapons employed by ideologues is banning free speech.""Ban" and "attack" are two different words with two very different meanings.
Freedom of Speech is both under attack and being banned. Denying access to a venue which is dedicated to free and unemcumbered speech is a ban and particularly heinous.Arguing otherwise is specious.
Just passed through KC - pretty damned cool. I wouldn't have traveled for it but having every non-human thing think it's night was well worth the experience and we're on the very southern edge where 'totality' was like 20 seconds.
What venues "dedicated to free and unemcumbered speech" are people being denied access to?In many ways, it is actually much easier to share "free and unemcumbered speech" to a much greater audience than it was a generation ago.
I have friends who headed for Carbondale.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
you do get/see the news, right? if i were to announce that i am speaking on fill in the blank "controversial topic" and a large group threatens to fill the place with guys in masks, torches, clubs, vandalism, tipping/burning cars, looting, etc the local law enforcement tells me that i best cancel for the safety of many, that would be denying free speech in my book
Milwaukee report .. clouds were wispy enough to see the sun, so that was ok. But even at 84% it .. wasn't that cool. It was dimmer, but on the excitement-o-meter, about a 2.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
There are three kinds of forums according to the Supreme Court. Public, limited, and closed. If you can find an example of a public forum being denied to someone, or a limited forum being denied based on viewpoint alone I would probably agree with you. But the examples media tend to point to are usually closed or limited forums. Most interior spaces on college campuses are considered either limited or closed forums.
In Des Moines for the evening Any good barbecue or steak places in this town ?