11 thoughts on “Americans for Prosperity joins the HB 1073 Campus Free Speech fight!”
Have you guys forgot about the First Amendment? How is this necessary? Because the real problem for you guys is that the Right’s increasing aversion to facts has caused them to be less credible, and when you are less credible you fill shouted down or ostracized.
#ItsTimeToRediscoverFacts!
The issue is that school policies are worded in such a way that enables a bureaucratic choke on free speech, standing to suppress the speech of those who try to use it in ways that don’t fit the narrowly defined criteria.
“But we have the First Amendment!” is a great point, but ultimately, bureaucrats will work as hard as they can to provide a façade of upholding that right, while suppressing it. That’s what Institutions of Higher Learning do, and that’s why this is such an issue. A student who is not fully informed of the obligations of the school, or the actual legality of the school policies, will simply be held down under this illegal façade. By making SD Institutions accountable for fully upholding the First Amendment, reflecting the relevant court decisions pertaining to free speech at higher ed. institutions, and report out on how they’re doing this, we can work to make sure that “justified” suppressive policies are destroyed in the name of upholding our true freedoms.
School policies don’t comply with the First Amendment. That is exactly the problem. This bill’s main purpose is to require the schools to follow the First Amendment.
Doesn’t the First Amendment already require the schools to follow the First Amendment? Has anyone even tried to litigate this, or are we just trying to pass a useless law??
So the First Amendment is not enforceable? Is it completely dependent upon the honor system?
Legislation that complements an Amendment is suppose to facilitate it and not redeclare it.
Do you how much it costs to bring a First Amendment lawsuit Ike? The legislature is trying to fix this to avoid expensive lawsuits that students are ill-equipped to bring.
Ike, it’s concerning how little people care about protecting speech rights.
This legislation will merely invite expensive lawsuits; which the State will be forced to defend at its expense.
Hey folks, so according to university officials who came to speak to the USD Student Government Association on Tuesday evening about this, the free speech zones are no longer a thing on campus. The University revised its policies sometime last year.
Hey folks, all is well. (Until no one is paying attention again.)
That’s why a law is needed.
Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the email Americans for Prosperity sent out is factually inaccurate.
All is well, and we don’t need an out of state oganization funded by the Koch Brothers to get involved.
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Have you guys forgot about the First Amendment? How is this necessary? Because the real problem for you guys is that the Right’s increasing aversion to facts has caused them to be less credible, and when you are less credible you fill shouted down or ostracized.
#ItsTimeToRediscoverFacts!
The issue is that school policies are worded in such a way that enables a bureaucratic choke on free speech, standing to suppress the speech of those who try to use it in ways that don’t fit the narrowly defined criteria.
“But we have the First Amendment!” is a great point, but ultimately, bureaucrats will work as hard as they can to provide a façade of upholding that right, while suppressing it. That’s what Institutions of Higher Learning do, and that’s why this is such an issue. A student who is not fully informed of the obligations of the school, or the actual legality of the school policies, will simply be held down under this illegal façade. By making SD Institutions accountable for fully upholding the First Amendment, reflecting the relevant court decisions pertaining to free speech at higher ed. institutions, and report out on how they’re doing this, we can work to make sure that “justified” suppressive policies are destroyed in the name of upholding our true freedoms.
School policies don’t comply with the First Amendment. That is exactly the problem. This bill’s main purpose is to require the schools to follow the First Amendment.
Doesn’t the First Amendment already require the schools to follow the First Amendment? Has anyone even tried to litigate this, or are we just trying to pass a useless law??
So the First Amendment is not enforceable? Is it completely dependent upon the honor system?
Legislation that complements an Amendment is suppose to facilitate it and not redeclare it.
Do you how much it costs to bring a First Amendment lawsuit Ike? The legislature is trying to fix this to avoid expensive lawsuits that students are ill-equipped to bring.
Ike, it’s concerning how little people care about protecting speech rights.
This legislation will merely invite expensive lawsuits; which the State will be forced to defend at its expense.
Hey folks, so according to university officials who came to speak to the USD Student Government Association on Tuesday evening about this, the free speech zones are no longer a thing on campus. The University revised its policies sometime last year.
Hey folks, all is well. (Until no one is paying attention again.)
That’s why a law is needed.
Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the email Americans for Prosperity sent out is factually inaccurate.
All is well, and we don’t need an out of state oganization funded by the Koch Brothers to get involved.