Feminist Majority Foundation (publisher of Ms. Magazine) and others call for restricting campus speech
Article here. Excerpt:
'The recently amended complaint against University of Mary Washington, filed with the federal Education Department, shows how Title IX has become a tool for people to try to suppress speech they disapprove of. I blogged about one aspect of this campaign — the letter to the Education Department from what I called the national coalition in favor of campus censorship — yesterday. Today, I want to focus on the UMW complaint (filed by some UMW students and professors, as well as the Feminist Majority Foundation), which has been in the news alongside the coalition’s letter: just last week, the Education Department was reported to have launched an investigation based on the complaint.
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What’s striking, though, about the UMW complaint is how far it goes beyond criminal threats. Here are some examples of the posts that the complaint complains about:
1. “Students posted Yaks about the Greek life issue and Feminists United, including ‘this feminist needs to calm the hell down,’ and ‘these feminists need to chill their tits,’ and specifically calling Ms. McKinsey ‘scary.’”
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The Feminist Majority Foundation, though a publisher of a magazine, doesn’t seem to care much about the First Amendment rights of students, or of accused university officials. Its complaint goes far beyond constitutionally unprotected and rightly punishable speech, such as true threats of violence.'
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