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Why I stopped backing the free speech zone table after a chat with a TA in Denver
I used to think speech codes just protected people's feelings until a grad student at a Denver campus asked me one simple thing at our table last semester: who decides which speech gets punished? She pointed out that the same rule I liked could be flipped on me by the next admin, and that stuck with me more than any debate I ever watched. Has anyone else had a one on one like that actually change their view?
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west.casey9d ago
What was it about her question that actually landed? Like was it the idea of the next admin flipping the rule, or did she give you a real example of it happening somewhere? I ask because I've heard the "who decides" line a bunch and it usually bounces off people until there's a concrete case attached. Did she mention a specific school where a speech code got used against the folks who wrote it? That kind of story would probably move more people than the abstract version.
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