When people complain about excessive wokeness on campus, the examples are often vague or poorly reported. This one is not. Students don't want to participate in a song that originated in a minstrel show, and alum want to compel them to do so.
*Student guides don't want to include a plaque featuring the song on campus tours
*Student band members don't want to play the song, so the university now has two bands!
*Student athletes don't want to be compelled into singing the song ImageImageImage
UT did its own investigation into the history of song, and determined the song was not overtly racist. But obviously many students don't agree. washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/03…
So we have a case where students, alumni, administration and donors disagree about the meaning of a campus artifact. We've also seen students threatened in various ways for not honoring that artifact.
The big free speech issue here is not excess wokeness, but compelled speech. ImageImageImageImage

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