Free speech only applies to liberal, left-wing college professors
Free speech is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution. However, it only applies to liberal left-wing college professors.
Case in point, Midwestern State University (MSU) philosophy professor Dr. Nathan Jun (pronounced June). Last September, Jun posted a comment on a friend’s Facebook page that caused such a stir that the university had to defend itself.
Jun wrote, “I want the entire world to burn until the last cop is strangled with the intestines of the last capitalist, who is strangled in turn with the intestines of the last politician.” Jun claimed he paraphrased 18th Century philosopher Denis Diderot. The original quote was, “Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
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Proposed legislation in Iowa would require the state’s Board of Regents to survey all employees of the three universities it oversees as to their political party affiliations, disaggregating the data by job classification but not by individual. The regents would deliver the information to state lawmakers by the end of the calendar year.
The bill doesn’t provide an explanation, and Jim Carlin, the Republican state senator who introduced it, didn’t respond to a request for comment. But the meaning is clear: by disaggregating employee groups, Iowa’s General Assembly could measure the political beliefs of the faculty.
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Question of the Day By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Leading teachers unions mounted a new pressure campaign on Wednesday to push the Biden administration to waive student loan debt and spend more to benefit college educators.
The same education activists who have organized to keep classrooms closed want President Biden to scrub away the debt they have incurred earning advanced degrees.
The American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation’s two largest teachers unions, and the American Association of University Professors partnered with a pair of Massachusetts Democratic lawmakers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, to help them get results now. The national campaign, titled “A New Deal for Higher Education,” wants the government to treat higher
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State legislatures purpose to start from where the dissolved 1776 commission ceased. In many states, Republican lawmakers are taking strides with the legislation that would execute the same efforts.
In Arkansas, Iowa and Mississippi, bills have been proposed to prevent the use of the 1619 project as part of tutoring the heritage of enslavement.
In Arkansas, the legislature is taking into account two bills that would restrict racial justice in the syllabus. The bills are; House bill 1231 and House Bill 1218.
House Bill 1231 would limit schools from making use of the 1619 Project as part of the syllabus, while House Bill 1218 goes further to put a stop to lessons that would encourage bringing down of the U.S. Government, disunity between specific groups, and social injustice for certain groups such as race, gender and social class.