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President Trump’s Executive Order Puts Campus Bolsheviks on Notice That the First Amendment Exists Everywhere

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Widespread intolerance of ideas on college campuses that are outside the liberal catechism are pretty well documented. While there may be an objectively larger number of complaints based on speech and behavior directed against liberals, a disproportionate number of attacks are directed against conservatives. What makes this worse is that college administrators, when they aren’t actually the problem themselves, are rarely sympathetic to free speech that contradicts their shibboleths. Routinely, conservative groups are targeted for administrative retaliation and conservative speakers are disinvited from campuses when they aren’t subjected to administration sanctioned disruptions.

Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order titled Executive Order on Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and Universities. The order itself is not very earthshaking. But the subtext that the president sent was simple: if you receive federal funding, the First Amendment must be allowed to exist and must be protected on campus. Period. Full stop.

These are clips of President Trump’s remarks:

The Politico article insists, against all evidence, that the order does nothing more than tell universities to do what they are doing right now.

But if that was true, you wouldn’t have comments like this which fly in the face of what is actually happening:

A Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found that 75% of 346 colleges and universities in a survey it conducted had substantial restrictions on free speech. Four states have found it necessary to pass laws forbidding “free speech zones” on campus. It would be impossible to find a college or university that does not impose sanctions for “hate” or “hurtful” speech…like stating homosexual marriage really isn’t at all like actual marriage.

Indeed, the facts say just the opposite. One of the invitees to the signing was Polly Olsen:

Another invitee was Kristan Hawkins who is president of Students for Life of America:

While it might be true that universities should be fostering free speech, particularly speech that goes against the grain of what the university elites believe, in order to teach students how to disagree amicably and without violence, that is not what is happening. The president’s order will serve as marching orders for Department of Justice and for Department of Education to take seriously the First Amendment rights of students and the duty of colleges and universities to protect them.

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