I think the First Amendment does, and should, protect Amy Wax from criminal or civil litigation from her speech. I think that though a professor expressing racial contempt for groups of her students presents grave issues, that action against her tenure should only be taken in extreme circumstances and with great caution and process.
But…/1
https://www.vox.com/23592864/amy-wax-university-of-pennsylvania-racism-tenure-academic-freedom
/2 I find myself increasing alienated from a “free speech community” that seems primarily concerned not with those legal and procedural safeguards, but with the notion that when Amy Wax says our country should have fewer people who look like my children, that our predominant concern should be that nobody say anything that might make people feel uncomfortable or self-conscious saying things like that.
/3 It is a “free speech culture” that irrationally lionizes the Amy Waxes of the world while incoherently policing and seeking to deter, limit, and tone-police people responding to her.
I dissent from it.
Only because the GQP has turned "freedom of speech" into "speech, free from consequences". That was never the intent.
