Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“Recent attempts at silencing dissent in the U.S. are frightening. They are not surprising; history has a way of repeating itself, especially when its a swinging pendulum. In the 1980s, many colleges instituted speech codes ostensibly meant to protect minorities on their campuses from hateful speech. Soon enough, those codes were used to punish minorities when they spoke against majority students. … Fortunately, those speech codes were mostly removed after they were judged unconstitutional and thus impermissible on campuses of state schools. The more recent but parallel story is the rise of ‘woke’ … students (and some professors) shouting down speakers. As in the earlier case, this too was soon turned upside down. Now we have government entities doing more than shouting. The federal government is seeking to deport college students that dissent from its approved views and to punish colleges that allow such dissent.” (03/24/25)
https://prosociallibertarians.substack.com/p/recent-events-free-speech-and-the