Hypocritical IdiocyStarts off perfectly ok:
The University of California is committed to protecting its bedrock values of respect, inclusion, and academic freedom. Free expression and the open exchange of ideas – principles enshrined in our national and state Constitutions – are part of the University’s fiber. So, too, is tolerance, and University of California students, faculty, and staff must respect the dignity of each person within the UC communityThen launches right into how intolerant they're going to be regarding their level of tolerance:
Intolerance has no place at the University of California. We define intolerance as unwelcome conduct motivated by discrimination against, or hatred toward, other individuals or groups. It may take the form of acts of violence or intimidation, threats, harassment, hate speech, derogatory language reflecting stereotypes or prejudice, or inflammatory or derogatory use of culturally recognized symbols of hate, prejudice, or discriminationActs of violence and intimidation are already crimes, and threats and harassment get handled administratively or criminally on college campuses. The UC regents don’t need to issue this directive to deal with those issues. The point of this is to grant the UC campus administrations the right to regulate speech, and to
bar any speech that the regents and administrators don’t like. The proposed statement by the regents frame this in a new asserted “right” to be free from ideas that might offend
Who gets to decide what is offensive, and what is merely “the free exchange of ideas in keeping with the principles of academic freedom and free speech,”?? Lemme guess, an Anti-abortion rally would be deemed hateful to women and intolerant of women's rights, while a pro-abortion rally would be an effort to educate and enlighten all who might disagree
Our Founders would be rolling in their graves
