A tiny bit of good news in a dismal year:
Political speech is under attack these days from Beijing to Berkeley, so we'll take victories where we can get them. One arrived Tuesday when the University of Texas at Austin agreed to disband its PC police and end policies that suppress speech on campus.
Credit the nonprofit Speech First, which sued on behalf of student members in 2018. The group claimed UT and its officials had 'created an elaborate investigatory and disciplinary apparatus to suppress, punish, and deter speech that other students deem ‘offensive,' ‘biased,' ‘uncivil,' or ‘rude.''
Students could anonymously report their professors and peers for 'bias incidents' to the Campus Climate Response Team, which would investigate and threaten disciplinary referrals and 'restorative justice' meetings with administrators. The university gave several examples of what constitutes an act of bias, including 'faculty commentary in the classroom perceived as derogatory and insensitive,' and other behavior open to highly subjective judgments about what is offensive.
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On the first go-round, a federal judge dismissed the the case in 2019.
But Speech First appealed, and in October the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the ruling and remanded the case back to the district court. Circuit Court Judge Edith Jones blasted the bias-response team as 'the clenched fist in the velvet glove of student speech regulation.'
Now comes the settlement, in which administrators agree to dismantle the bias-response team and amend policies that chill speech. Gone is a ban on 'uncivil behaviors and language that interfere' with the 'welfare, individuality or safety of other persons.' Also stricken is a definition of 'verbal harassment' that prohibited 'ridicule' or 'personal attacks.' Screen shot on computer.
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On the first go-round, a federal judge dismissed the the case in 2019.
But Speech First appealed, and in October the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the ruling and remanded the case back to the district court. Circuit Court Judge Edith Jones blasted the bias-response team as 'the clenched fist in the velvet glove of student speech regulation.'
Now comes the settlement, in which administrators agree to dismantle the bias-response team and amend policies that chill speech. Gone is a ban on 'uncivil behaviors and language that interfere' with the 'welfare, individuality or safety of other persons.' Also stricken is a definition of 'verbal harassment' that prohibited 'ridicule' or 'personal attacks.' Screen shot on computer.
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Every animatronic in fnaf. Under the settlement, UT reserves the right 'to devise an alternative' to its bias-response team, but 'Speech First is free to challenge that alternative.'
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One small victory in the war against Social Justice. Also, as of this writing, that bias report form still seemed to be active (maybe due to the Christmas break). But there's still an entire 'diversity' bureaucracy at UT intent on inflicting leftwing social justice conformity on students that needs to be dismantled.
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