Scott Walker wants law requiring UW officials to protect offensive speech

[TomSea]

Scott Walker wants law requiring UW officials to protect offensive speech

As political polarization across the country fuels ideological confrontations on college campuses, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gov. Scott Walker is proposing a law to require UW officials to protect offensive speech.

In his 2017-2019 executive budget, Walker recommends “codifying the state’s commitment to academic freedom,” and providing $10,000 in funding for the UW System to review and revise “policies related to academic freedom.”

The proposed companion budget bill elaborates, stating among other things, that:

    The UW Board of Regents and each college campus “shall guarantee all members of the system's community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge and learn.”

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[EasyAce]

It's a damn shame when you actually have to think of writing and passing a law protecting any kind of speech
---offensive or otherwise---even when your state's constitution's third section (after section one on equality and
section two prohibiting slavery) specifies there's such an official thing in the state as freedom of speech.

[Hondo69]

It's a damn shame when you actually have to think of writing and passing a law protecting any kind of speech
---offensive or otherwise---even when your state's constitution's third section (after section one on equality and
section two prohibiting slavery) specifies there's such an official thing in the state as freedom of speech.

Yep - and provide taxpayer funds to do so.  Disgusting.

On the other hand you could take away tax dollars from the university for civil rights violations.  You hit them in the pocketbook and you'll have their full attention.

[Oceander]

It's a damn shame when you actually have to think of writing and passing a law protecting any kind of speech
---offensive or otherwise---even when your state's constitution's third section (after section one on equality and
section two prohibiting slavery) specifies there's such an official thing in the state as freedom of speech.

Eternal vigilance

[EasyAce]

On the other hand you could take away tax dollars from the university for civil rights violations.  You hit them in the pocketbook and you'll have their full attention.

You certainly could.

But it would take the kind of intellectual fortitude sorely lacking among the political class to do it.

[LMAO]

The problem with these young people is they have to come out of the protection of the University bubble at some point.

There they will find out the real world will not accommodate them and every demand  they make