| EnricoPallazzo said: While it was definitely necessary due to the riots the left promotes in some universities not allowing people to speak, it wont solve tje problem. Nothing can stop the left in shuting down other peoples opinions. They will protest anyway, not allow the speaker to arrive at the designated place, will keep harrassing people with different opinions and will not face the consequences. In the end nothing will change. |
I think it is possible and here's why. I've been to meetings at colleges before. I've heard the conversations they had and participated in them myself. I can tell you for a fact that whenever they feel their money is in danger, they react. Here's the only problem I see and this actually relates to a meeting I was at in 2015. I believe it was in 2011 when Obama had expanded the legal definition for Title IX. For those of you who don't know, Title IX was an amended law of the US Civil Rights act and has been around since 1972. Its original purpose was to prevent sex discrimination at any federal funded institution. It was simple enough and fair. In 2011, Obama had expanded the definition to the point where it became a confusing and bloated. Instead of simply enforcing Title IX, entire committees had to be formed just to try and figure out wether Title IX was being violated. This is when we saw that huge jump in sexual harassment and rape allegations. This is also when we saw the huge spike in fake crimes being reported at universities.
In the meeting I was at in 2015, it involved me and a few other students who were officers in a student-run art organization. Our faculty advisor was there as well. We had an incident where another student's suggestive artwork was taken down from the student run gallery by one of the higher ups at the college without consulting any of the officers or faculty advisor. This was all done because somebody complained about it. We had written a letter asking the college to enforce it's own free speech policy and not to remove any more artwork from the gallery. That is what triggered the meeting. At the meeting, the Title IX enforcer (I can't remember if that was the exact name of her title) informed us that the offensive artwork in question MAY have violated Title IX laws. Even they weren't entirely sure but didn't want to take any chances. The administration at the college felt that because they were located in a very conservative county where crude artwork may not be appreciated but also had many leftist students who were overly offended by anything and everything, they felt their bottom line was in danger and the result from all this was to move the entire student gallery to a different part of the building where it would be less noticeable and was accessible only opening a door. Outside the door would be a warning notice. This also resulted in two teachers having to have their offices relocated to make room for the new gallery. Keep in mind, this gallery had been in existence since 2005 and maybe had only a small number of complaints and those complaints went nowhere since the shows were changed on a weekly basis.
The real challenge is how do universities enforce free speech without violating Title IX, especially since merely since it is now possible for someone to be sexually harassed by a painting. Personally, I would love to see Title IX be stripped back to it's 1972 form. If that can't happen, then colleges and universities will need to hire a free speech enforcer and that free speech enforcer will have to coordinate with the title IX enforcer.
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