A recent survey found that nearly two-thirds of college students are fine with shouting down disagreeable speakers and nearly a quarter believe that violence may be used towards this goal
On America’s other shore 18 years on, another right-wing judge speaking at a law school encountered a different kind of outrageous question. “Why can’t you find the clit?” a Stanford law student inexplicably asked Kyle Duncan, a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, on March 9th. Judge Duncan, a Trump appointee, faced a chorus of jeers as he tried to deliver his prepared remarks. He gave up after ten minutes of shouts including “we hope your daughters get raped” and “we hate you”.
The law school’s dean, Jenny Martinez, and Stanford’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, wrote a letter of apology to Mr Duncan. Ms Martinez followed up on March 22nd with a ten-page letter to all at the law school clarifying its commitment to free expression and noting that Ms Steinbach was now on leave. Shutting down speakers “is incompatible with the training that must be delivered in a law school”. To do so creates an “echo chamber that ill prepares students” to be “effective advocates”.
But Ms Nossel was alone in opposing federal legislation to police campus expression, and to caution against state efforts to meddle in university curriculums. States including Florida, Mississippi and Iowa, she noted, had passed laws presenting an “unprecedented threat to open discourse”. By declaring certain concepts off limits, she wrote, these laws “use state power to exert ideological control over public educational institutions”.
This hardline approach could backfire, Ms Nossel warns. If today’s progressive students “come to see the cause of free expression as a punitive agenda or a smokescreen for hatred”, she argues, they might come to displace free expression as a “bedrock American principle”.
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