'An existential threat to universities'
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'An existential threat to universities'
First Amendment lawyer Alex Morey on the Stanford Law controversy
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Earlier this month, a federal court judge went to speak to students at Stanford Law School. Judge Kyle Duncan has referred to the explosive protest that ensued as a “struggle session,” while student hecklers have defended their actions as counter-speech. My guest on today’s program has some thoughts on this free speech controversy — and where the university should go from here.
Alex Morey is a First Amendment attorney and the director of campus rights advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Alex Morey is my guest, today on Lean Out.
'An existential threat to universities'
Love FIRE. It has replaced the “ defunct” ACLU in my opinion.
These Stanford hecklers sound more like preadolescents who are emotionally attached to getting their own way.
Whether it’s a consequence of social media platforms incentivizing groupthink and mob mentality or yet another generation coming from failed parenting strategies moving through the system, none of this benefits society at large.
Informing on your classmate for saying something ‘the system’ disagrees with and considering yourself first an agent of a censorist movement is indicative of totalitarianism. Or in other words, Left wing.