Leftists want everyone’s speech and actions policed – except theirs
Dave Huber - Associate Editor
March 15, 2025
How dare Trump detain a pro-Hamas agitator! Oh, and please arrest that old lady praying outside the abortion clinic.
The Left has put itself in yet another weird position, this time with its support of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian Columbia grad student detained by ICE for his role in disruptive campus protests over the last year.
The ACLU seems to believe all Khalil did was exercise his basic First Amendment rights, and the official X account for Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed similar sentiments.
The centrist free speech group FIRE also criticized Khalil’s detention on the basis of the government’s “lack of clarity” on the matter. But at least FIRE recognizes that what’s happened at Columbia also has included unlawful conduct.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/leftists-want-everyones-speech-and-actions-policed-except-theirs/
