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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProtesters to be banned from AG Session event on free speech
Dan Zak? @MrDanZakProtesters to be blocked from Jeff Sessions event on free speech, because everything's a bit on-the-nose these days.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will talk about free speech at the Georgetown University Law Center on Tuesday, and many students and faculty members plan to protest the event...
Sessions, who has sparked controversy over immigration, race and other issues, planned to talk about free speech on college campuses. Its a fraught topic nationally, with many conservatives saying that only liberal viewpoints are welcome on many college campuses, stifling free exchange and overly sensitive students finding alternative viewpoints too offensive to hear.
On Monday, some students said they got messages informing them they would not be allowed to attend the event, as they were not included on the invitation list drawn up by the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at Georgetown Law, which is hosting Sessions.
More than 130 students who had followed official channels to register for a seat in the auditorium were told they could attend, Lauren Phillips, a student at the school, wrote in an email Monday night. But the students were later suddenly uninvited because they were not part of a group that, Phillips believes, would ensure a sympathetic audience.
She said those students find it extraordinarily hypocritical that AG Sessions would lecture future attorneys about the importance of free speech on campus while actively excluding the wider student body, and that school officials had told students they could voice their objections only within a designated free speech zone which she said was a tiny, isolated corner of the campus. We hope in the future that the University will truly uphold the principles of free speech, including the right to dissent.
read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/09/26/georgetown-law-students-plan-to-protest-jeff-sessionss-speech/?tid=ss_tw-amp&utm_term=.c9ae08c19eeb
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Protesters to be banned from AG Session event on free speech (Original Post)
bigtree
Sep 2017
OP
Is the evil elf afraid that he's going to be laughed at again? Well, he can always arrest them.
catbyte
Sep 2017
#2
Up is down and all that. Weakling Sessions is every bit the authoritarian Trump is, as well
Solly Mack
Sep 2017
#5
Girard442
(6,070 posts)1. In my fantasy, Sessions ends up speaking to an empty auditorium.
Yeah, I know. It's a fantasy.
catbyte
(34,376 posts)2. Is the evil elf afraid that he's going to be laughed at again? Well, he can always arrest them.
True Dough
(17,304 posts)3. Oh, the irony
Sessions + free speech = NO FREE SPEECH
lovemydogs
(575 posts)4. how ironic
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)5. Up is down and all that. Weakling Sessions is every bit the authoritarian Trump is, as well
as being unable to take any sort of push back.
That Georgetown would allow this doesn't speak well of Georgetown Center for the... "Constitution?????".
logosoco
(3,208 posts)6. At first I thought "How ironic"
but really this is typical when we are under a Republican regime.