College students who participate in walkouts could be suspended or expelled under a new measure passed by the Tennessee General Assembly on Monday.
The Charlie Kirk Act, named for the late conservative activist, addresses free speech on college campuses.
HB 1476/ SB 1741 would require colleges and universities to sign the University of Chicago’s policy on freedom of speech — and prohibit administrations from uninviting a speaker based on their opposition to abortion or LGBTQ rights.
Conservatives sure do hate freedom
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
What the fuck do walkouts have to do with Kirk?
But does it protect ya neck
fReE sPeEcH
Can someone remind me what America used to do to fascists?
Invite them to work in the government?
Or you mean before that? With the bayonets?
Nothing says “free speech” like banning protest.
Just for extra Irony Points, this is being done in the name of one of the supposed free-speech-maximalist DEBATEMEBRO types.
Not that I ever thought that he was genuine about it, either, but FFS. If anyone ever wants to see one of the biggest cases of conservative “free speech maximalism” in action, it’s someone like fElon and the way he runs Xitter.
Just to talk through conservatives’ blatant hypocrisy:
Conservativism is correlated generally with a lack of empathy (general scientific essay collecting evidence here). For people who fundamentally lack empathy, one explanation is that they literally cannot tell the difference between “free speech” and “my free speech.” To them, they cannot understand why any valid moral goal would be different from theirs. That implies that any exercise of free speech by them and those like them is valid, and free speech by others with different goals would be invalid.
So likely they see Charlie Kirk’s “censorship” as a free speech issue, and not LGBTQ censorship, because they actually lack the cognitive tools to understand the contradiction.
I’m not sure what the solution is here, short of sending Henry Cavill to the predominantly-male conservatives who think this way, and giving them a long, romantic kiss to make them realize they are also a little LGBTQ, to expand their sympathy base to make up for their lack of empathy. But I doubt Henry Cavill would volunteer for this particular task.
The Henry Cahill solution might be among the best things I’ve seen on lemmy.
Gotta account for preferences though, I know women swoon over him but they night apply to men, speaking as one of them.
The solution is to focus on our education system and possibly start requiring school before people can do certain things. I think for example in order to have kids you should be required to take a parenting class for a period of time. I mainly bring this up because my wife is a teacher and at least half of her students each year have parents who either don’t want to be a parent or have zero idea how to be a parent. Some form of required education will be a barrier between those who don’t want kids and useful for those who don’t know what to do. My wife and I fostered kids for a period of time and we were not only required to take classes before we could but we had to redo those classes each year, and that was just to foster kids not have them for example.
Its not perfect but too many people are having kids and not doing anything for themselves to be prepared for that, they just rely on the schools to do everything and there is only so much a teacher can do for these kids. My wife who teaches elementary aged kids has had on numerous occasions to teach children how to wipe their own butts because their parents won’t do it themselves, this isn’t something a teacher should have to do but its either she explains it to them or deals with a stinky child all day who is upset because of it. This is just one example and there are numerous others.
But I doubt Henry Cavill would volunteer for this particular task.
I mean… had anyone asked? Maybe offer him some Warhammer minis?
In order to keep the memory of their hero alive, all speaking engagements covered by this act must take place outside in an area with long, unobstructed sight lines.
Protest idea: a bunch of menstruating people free bleed all over the auditorium, because they were afraid to get up and go to the bathroom. It’s a clear enough biohazard that they’ll have to call a remediation company (who are well paid, educated, and supplied for this type of cleaning work), so it won’t fall to the regular cleaning staff, plus it’s going to specifically gross out the people who support this the most.
“The Charlie Kirk Act…
addressesrestricts free speech”Fixed that for them
and prohibit administrations from uninviting a speaker based on their opposition to abortion or LGBTQ rights
Why only opposition to these issues? Are administrations free to prohibit speakers in support of these issues? How is this not governmental viewpoint suppression in violation of the constitutional protection of freedom of speech? This is insane.
It’s exactly that, they just don’t care
Tennessee is a shithole now
“Now” ?
More than normal
Oh look. Another first amendment violation for the queue to be struck down the second it hits a courtroom. Your tax dollars at work.
Not if they can appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.
As Charlie Kirk would have wanted it.
What are they gonna do suspend the kids that walkout? Also good trouble is good for your soul
