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“A public university investigated, reprimanded, and threatened to discipline a professor for contentious statements he made in a class syllabus. The statements, which mocked the university’s model syllabus statement on an issue of public concern, caused offense in the university community. Yet debate and disagreement are hallmarks of higher education. Student discomfort with a professor’s views can prompt discussion and disapproval. But this discomfort is not grounds for the university retaliating against the professor. We hold that the university’s actions toward the professor violated his First Amendment rights.”

How the fuck did this become a legal case in the first place? What needs investigating is the mental health of the fanatics currently running the University of Washington. HUGE embarrassment for the institution.

Margaret Soltan, December 20, 2025 6:32AM
Posted in: democracy

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  1. Stephen Karlson Says:
    December 20th, 2025 at 12:19PM

    That circa-2020 preference cascade that became more like a religious revival than a dispassionate look at the absence of cosmic justice ended in the way of all such revivals. The professor’s use of a labor theory of ownership to question the logic of those land acknowledgements lends a dignity that, oh, invoking old territorial boundaries in Michigan or Illinois, would not.

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