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University of Arizona police are charging two UA students with misdemeanors for protesting Custom and Border Patrol agents during an on campus presentation. I can’t stress enough what a big deal this is. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…
For a while now, I’ve been looking for a clear and unambiguous instance in which a state with a Goldwater-style campus free speech law punished disruptive students for constitutionally protected speech. There have been a lot of candidates, but none this clear.
Here’s what the UA President has to say: “The student club and the CBP officers invited by the students should have been able to hold their meeting without disruption. Student protest is protected by our support for free speech, but disruption is not."
That’s all there is to it. That’s where we are now. You can speak but not disrupt, and believe me: disruption will include so much more than you think it should. Think I’m over-reacting? If it helps, imagine that the person making that call is a crazy SJW like me.
This is depressing.
America is a silly country.
Oh my god it gets sillier. Last week, Judicial Watch filed a complaint with the university over the actions of Denisse Mureno-Melchor, the student who started the protest and followed the agents to their car while chanting “Murder Patrol”.

judicialwatch.org/blog/2019/03/j…
Judicial Watch says Mureno-Melchor violates the Student Code of Conduct in the following respects:
Did you see that? Fabrication. Stalking. Unauthorized presence.

Here’s the video Mureno-Melchor took, by the way. You tell me when the stalking or unauthorized presence (on a public campus!) happens. As for fabrication...gtfo.

On the one hand, this is high quality lib-trolling by Judicial Watch and I salute their moxie. On the other hand, they are clearly evil.
A good statement from FIRE on this. Has @adamsteinbaugh ‘s finger prints all over it!

thefire.org/fire-statement…
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THREAD: I'm on record as saying that there are a lot of sincere and principled people working the campus politics/free speech beat, but lately I've grown much more cynical about the entire thing. I'd like to give you an example of why.
Nick Irvin is a senior at UC Davis. On February 25th, he dug up a pair of anti-police tweets from 2014 by English prof Joshua Clover, along with a remark Clover made in a 2015 interview saying that police should be killed.

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While there has been no allegation that Clover brought these words or sentiments into the classroom, Irvin says that he worries Clover may yet do so at some unspecified future date. The students must be protected.
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@PsychRabble says that one of us is lying and readers should come on over and make up their own minds. I agree. Let us know your thoughts below.
Speaking only for myself, though, I want to express how frustrating it is whenever these sorts of things happen. I go out of my way to convince my fellow liberals that not everyone concerned about campus free speech is a grifter or working in bad faith.
But when someone like @PsychRabble, who is a much bigger deal in these debates than I am, pulls stunts like this, it makes it that much harder for people to take his side seriously. That's really unfortunate.
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@DavidAFrench has your thinking on these issues (the eager hunt for damning quotes, the uncharitable interpretation of a person’s life, tearing someone down for the words of their spouse or associates) changed at all since the days of Imam Rauf and the GZ Mosque?
You opposed the mosque quite vocally, as I recall. You insisted that while Imam Rauf might indeed be a man of peace, he and his associates had said enough damning quotes over the decades that their campaign was unredeemable.

As for NRO, its editors urged a consumer boycott.
So I am curious, @DavidAFrench, whether your thinking on these matters has changed. And if not, what differentiates the two general approaches toward understanding a person’s past, besides the fact that Carlson and Shapiro happen to reside in your ideological camp?
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