Opinion | Free speech restricted in our academic institutions WashTimesOpEd
With the rise of the bureaucratic state and woke culture, we are becoming less free year by year. Rather than being brave in their willingness to defend the Constitution and fundamental rights, increasing numbers of Americans, particularly in the academic world, are seeking to deny others those liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Columbia University in New York was in the throes of the “free speech” movement during my time there as a graduate student — which sought to end the prohibitions on advocating communism and dirty words in public. The “free speech” movement was largely victorious, but here we are decades later, and Columbia was just listed as having the least freedom of expression of 50 major universities. You can still praise communism.
Thus, the opportunity for wage increases was often sacrificed for more secure tenure and reduced teaching loads. As expected, performance has become more and more mediocre in both public schools and colleges. This past week, there was a report that not one student — among tens of thousands — in the Baltimore public schools was at grade level in math.
After desegregation, the sports teams soon had many Black players , and FSU went on to become the nationally ranked No. 1 football team. Both students and faculty had a wide range of political and social opinions, and free expression and debate were encouraged. It was an idyllic time and place.
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