A Skidmore College history professor has no idea what the point of the First Amendment is. Therefore, she wants it limited for her political opponents.
Professor Jennifer Delton wrote an oped for the Washington Post that decried the idea of free speech becoming a “political weapon” which was the entire point of the First Amendment.
Delton decried free speech was being used by, what she deemed to be, the alt-right to give speeches on college campuses and trigger the left into violence. As if leftists protester, like Abntifa, are freedom fighters not responsible for their own acts of destruction.
“Here’s the dilemma college presidents face in the fall: Either uphold free speech on campus and risk violent counterprotests, or ban conservative provocateurs and confirm the ‘freedom of speech’ crisis on campuses,” she wrote. “Either way their institution’s legitimacy is undermined.
“This impossible dilemma is no accident. It has been part of a strategy, deployed first by conservatives and perfected by the alt-right,” she said.
Delton’s idea are in line with the left’s current push to stifle any speech that doesn’t fall into its realm of political correctness.
From former DNC and presidential candidate Howard Dean declaring that “hate speech” is not free speech to Antifa assaulting people on college campuses gathered to hear a conservative speaker.
Social media did its best to explain the First Amendment to the professor.
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It’s hard to stress how much I despise this op-ed. https://t.co/YIN9IvepGM pic.twitter.com/oePZkEDH5v
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 22, 2017
If this is true, there is no purpose in speaking of “rights” at all. The government can do whatever it wants when ends justify the means.
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 22, 2017
To be fair, the Founders couldn’t have imagined robust political speech, and they’d never met any radicals. pic.twitter.com/kTUXnXWWaB
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 22, 2017
No way.
She’s right. Trump and Sessions should absolutely dictate the limits of free-speech.
— ZB (@ZenBowman1) August 22, 2017
Can you imagine?
Since when were liberals free speech absolutists anyway?
— Ben (@BenHowe) August 22, 2017
I’m sorry. I’m confused. When were liberals “free speech absolutists”? Must have missed that era.
— Red West (@RedWest1) August 22, 2017
When they dictate the terms.
None of these guys ever stop to think crap like this could come back to bite them. Can’t wait for cops to use “hate speech” laws against BLM
— Brad Reed (@bwreed) August 22, 2017
Democracy Dies From Dumbasses
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 22, 2017
Amazing (a) anyone could say this, (b) an academic would say it, (c) a major newspaper editor would approve it. https://t.co/oP16gEdM6z
— D.C. Innes (@DCInnes1) August 23, 2017
It is the Washington Post.
Article Summary: I think people getting to disagree with me all the time is bad for my ideas. https://t.co/M5BCsGBJap
— Ari Krauss (@AriKrauss) August 23, 2017
Spot on.
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