free speech
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Texas Sheriff Sparks Outrage After Warning Vehicle Owner About Profane Anti-Trump Sticker
One Texas motorist apparently found the perfect sticker to express certain feelings about how this past year has gone, and so it was plastered, big and bold, on the rear window of a truck. “FUCK TRUMP AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM,” the sticker declared. It was eye-catching, to be sure, and a picture…
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Ohio State Is Being Sued After Refusing to Rent Space on Campus for White Supremacist Richard Spencer to Speak
Ohio State University is being targeted by a lawsuit after refusing to rent space on campus for white supremacist shitstain Richard Spencer to speak. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit was filed Sunday in federal court on behalf of Cameron Padgett, an associate and organizer of campus tours for Spencer. The suit came after…
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University of Wisconsin System Passes Dangerous New Policy That Expels Students for Protest
It’s good to know that the First Amendment is protected on college campuses. Not. The University of Wisconsin recently approved a policy that will suspend or expel students who disrupt campus speeches and presentations—because they are infringing on others’ free speech—an ironic and dangerous threat to the right to protest everywhere. The Associated Press reports…
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Georgetown Law Professors Will Take a Knee to Protest Jeff Sessions’ ‘Free Speech’ Visit
Law professors at Georgetown University want Attorney General Jeff Sessions to know he’s exactly the wrong one to talk about free speech. Sessions, the man Coretta Scott King warned us all about, will be at the university’s campus tonight to deliver his remarks. More than 30 law professors from the Georgetown University Law Center signed…
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Berkeley Squares Up for Key Test Ahead of Free Speech (Read: White Supremacist) Week
The University of California, Berkeley, faces a key test Thursday night as it hosts Ben Shapiro, a prominent conservative commentator, who’s slated to give a speech at the campus. In preparation, the university and the city of Berkeley are deploying a number of strategies, from counseling to pepper spray, to keep the event from spiraling…
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Major Cities Prepare for Massive Marches, Counterdemonstrations Across the Nation Today
As the country continues to grapple with the unbridled violence of Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, major cities such as Boston, Dallas, New Orleans and others will be the sites of major protests today—some under the guise of “free speech,” and others in defiance of white supremacy and in what organizers are calling “solidarity with Charlottesville.”…
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Should Confederate Symbols Be Banned in the US?
Symbols of the Confederacy have been the subject of two very different events over the last few days. In Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday, white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate statue from a public park, and their “protest” turned into a bloody riot, with one woman being killed and countless others being…
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NC High School Withholds Diploma From Senior Because He Refuses to Read Speech Written by Administrators
A graduating high school senior had his diploma withheld for about two days because he refused to read a speech given to him by administrators and instead read the speech he had taken the time and care to write himself. According to the Washington Post, Marvin Wright, president of the Southwest Edgecombe High School senior…
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Apparently, Free Speech Is a White Privilege
Less than 48 hours after an egomaniacal, snooty, three-toed, sloth-looking wet diaper joked about being a “house nigger” on Friday’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, white supremacists armed with bats, bricks and cans of Pepsi rioted in Portland, Ore., at what they deemed a “free speech rally.” The day after the “Portland Purge,”…
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Calif. High School Students Sue School District for Suspending Them Over Liking Racist Instagram Posts
A California school district is being hit with a lawsuit after suspending four students for liking and commenting on racist Instagram posts. The students claim that the punishment violates their First Amendment and due process rights. The Washington Post reports that the four plaintiffs are among more than a dozen students at Albany High School…