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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.
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. Its 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.)
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. Its 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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Faux xtians are everywhere. They only believe the Orange Chosen One and RW sites.
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2023
#39
That's correct about SoFl. Watching the fear, hate, bigotry & terror spread is sickening. Sad too.
appalachiablue
Mar 2023
#17
Really wish more Twitter Outrage! Memes would have better ratio of truth to deception.
Alexander Of Assyria
Mar 2023
#15
Yep. Palm Beach Atlantic University. 90% acceptance. 3000 students. Private Christian school.
Freethinker65
Mar 2023
#30
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
If only it was FL. This has been building nationally. Check a national map link here.
Hortensis
Mar 2023
#23
This is great--thank you.The Christofascist conservatives in FL are letting this happen
Timeflyer
Mar 2023
#40