IMHO, radical clarity here requires acknowledging the legal and principled differences between higher ed and K through 12 as well as the distinction between teaching versus promoting material.
Examples:
Examples:
https://twitter.com/ijbailey/status/1405947371750670337
Some Constitutionally protected speech, like hard core pornography, should absolutely be banned from first and second grade classrooms.
Some heinous ideas, like Nazi ideology, should be taught as part of history education, but absolutely never promoted or endorsed.
Some heinous ideas, like Nazi ideology, should be taught as part of history education, but absolutely never promoted or endorsed.
If you have public schools, which some anarchists and libertarians don't want, you have to bite the bullet and recognize that the state will be including some ideas and excluding others from curriculum. Some matters of controversy should be debated. But not all. Example:
Young people should be taught the debates around the death penalty and abortion. They should not be debating whether Jews are inferior or whether white people are devils or whether the U.S. government should initiate a genocide.
Lots of judgment calls k through 12 schools regularly make, with bipartisan support, would be utterly inappropriate violations of the 1st Amendment or academic freedom if done in colleges.
Some Republican bills would indeed constrain colleges in inappropriate ways. (Some go too far in K through 12 too.)
Ironically, another faction that wants to narrow what speech is protected *even in higher Ed and under the First Amendment* is: Critical Race Theorists.
Ironically, another faction that wants to narrow what speech is protected *even in higher Ed and under the First Amendment* is: Critical Race Theorists.
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