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In reply to the discussion: It's begun..... Florida [View all]

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
23. If only it was FL. This has been building nationally. Check a national map link here.
Mon Mar 20, 2023, 05:00 PM
Mar 2023

Here's FIRE's Scholars Under Fire interactive national map, unfortunately only through 2021, but as we know incidence of incidents has been accelerating both in individual institutions AND in red states. Tenured professors being fired, tenure itself eliminated, is a national trend, including in more liberal states.

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/mapping-scholars-under-fire

Also from FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)

WORST COLLEGES FOR FREE SPEECH IN 2023

Since our first list in 2011, FIRE has named and shamed 80 institutions in 33 states for actively working to shut down student and faculty speech rights. It’s not easy to make this list. ...

Hamline University (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
Pennsylvania State University (State College, Pennsylvania)
Collin College (McKinney, Texas)
Texas A&M (College Station, Texas)
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Emerson (Boston, Massachusetts)
Emporia State (Emporia, Kansas)
Tennessee Tech (Cookeville, Tennessee)
University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
Loyola University New Orleans (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Lifetime Censorship Award: Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)


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It's begun..... Florida [View all] AntivaxHunters Mar 2023 OP
I would be attempting to find a lawyer. Ferrets are Cool Mar 2023 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Prairie_Seagull Mar 2023 #14
This is VERY disturbing. secondwind Mar 2023 #2
This is a nightmare. yardwork Mar 2023 #3
...K&R... spanone Mar 2023 #4
I hate Florida Nazis RAB910 Mar 2023 #5
Yeah where are Jake and Elwood when you need them? Initech Mar 2023 #9
Flazis? Scalded Nun Mar 2023 #16
Back then that was funny COL Mustard Mar 2023 #35
It's a private Christian college, so--no constitutional rights for teachers. Timeflyer Mar 2023 #6
What irony. A "Christian" college opposes the teaching of racial equality. wnylib Mar 2023 #8
The Bible was used for centuries to justify racism, including slavery NullTuples Mar 2023 #29
Yes, it was, by some people. wnylib Mar 2023 #32
Yes, and so did my Methodist Abolitionist ancestors. raging moderate Mar 2023 #38
Faux xtians are everywhere. They only believe the Orange Chosen One and RW sites. Evolve Dammit Mar 2023 #39
In SOUTH Florida now.... FM123 Mar 2023 #7
That's correct about SoFl. Watching the fear, hate, bigotry & terror spread is sickening. Sad too. appalachiablue Mar 2023 #17
Yes, sickening and sad. FM123 Mar 2023 #22
Slow down, this is nothing new: It's a private, Christian college NullTuples Mar 2023 #10
Does the college pay taxes or is it tax exempt? Emile Mar 2023 #11
Not sure, but I could find no sign that it receives federal gov't funding. NullTuples Mar 2023 #26
How about DENVERPOPS Mar 2023 #31
You do not shed your freedom of speech Farmer-Rick Mar 2023 #12
Freedom of speech prohibits government restriction, not private employers. NullTuples Mar 2023 #24
Freedom of speech only applies in public institutions, Elessar Zappa Mar 2023 #25
Right but...... Farmer-Rick Mar 2023 #41
Really wish more Twitter Outrage! Memes would have better ratio of truth to deception. Alexander Of Assyria Mar 2023 #15
He's been teaching this content for the last 12 years IronLionZion Mar 2023 #18
Yep. Palm Beach Atlantic University. 90% acceptance. 3000 students. Private Christian school. Freethinker65 Mar 2023 #30
Freedom scares Republicans today. Captain Zero Mar 2023 #33
FYI, the ACLU is ON this WOKE CRAP. ancianita Mar 2023 #13
I seriously sometimes wonder if the parents complaining are actually parents at all. Initech Mar 2023 #19
Agree totally. Talk is big, but can spur consequences. Seems to be a form of RW protest. nt allegorical oracle Mar 2023 #20
Yeah there's nutjobs traveling all over the country and harassing boards. Initech Mar 2023 #21
If only it was FL. This has been building nationally. Check a national map link here. Hortensis Mar 2023 #23
Getting tired of these uninformative thread titles GenThePerservering Mar 2023 #27
Lots of teaching positions here in NM for FL teachers ALBliberal Mar 2023 #28
hope the professor sues the pants off DeSatan & his FL criminal lot onetexan Mar 2023 #34
I was offered a free trip to Florida Horse with no Name Mar 2023 #36
DeathSentence Youth Kid Berwyn Mar 2023 #37
This is great--thank you.The Christofascist conservatives in FL are letting this happen Timeflyer Mar 2023 #40
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