Should professors have more free speech rights than others in society?
Free speech group calls for instructor’s reinstatement
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, an organization that promotes free speech by students and faculty on college campuses, called for KU “to refrain from punishing faculty for protected speech and to restore this instructor to the classroom immediately.”
“The First Amendment protects professors who tell brief, off-topic jokes in the classroom,” said Graham Piro, FIRE program officer, in a statement. “It also protects hyperbole. In order to constitute a true threat, a speaker must communicate a serious intent to commit an act of unlawful violence against a specific individual or a group of individuals.
KU instructor: Men who won’t vote for female president should be shot (cjonline.com)
Those in the private sector, which is most workers, have no such protections.
What happens to discourse when some can say anything they want, while others are muzzled?
