Court Rules Free Speech Must Yield to ‘Woke’ Speech
By George Leef March 23, 2020
Shawnee State University in southern Ohio (cross the bridge and you’re in Kentucky) is an open-admissions school that opened in 1986. It’s very little known, but the school’s administrators are as politically attuned to progressive sensibilities as any across the nation. A case that has arisen at Shawnee threatens to set a terrible precedent for the suppression of speech that any “woke†student claims to find harassing.
Nicholas Meriwether has been on the Shawnee faculty since 1996, teaching political science. He has risen to the rank of full professor with the equivalent of tenure. In a course on political philosophy he was teaching in 2018, he called upon an obviously male student and after the student (registered in class under the name Alena Breuning, but referred to as “Doe†in the court documents) replied, Meriwether said, “Yes, sir.†That’s all it took to set off a federal case.
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2020/03/23/court-rules-free-speech-must-yield-to-woke-speech/