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I’m a Professor. I Never Expected to Be Arrested by My Own University.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/im-a-professor-i-never-expected-to-be-arrested-by-my-own-university

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/kvyEW

cosmic_cowboy @reddthat.com - 1.6yr

The side of the aisle that normally champions freedom of speech has been remarkably quiet on the subject lately...

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pop @lemmy.ml - 1.6yr

Their constitution is just clickbait that is selectively applied when convenient for rich white people.

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BossDj @lemm.ee - 1.6yr

Kinda like their Bible

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doingthestuff @lemmy.world - 1.6yr

I'm an advocate of free speech but I didn't click thru to read that because of the terrible click-baity title. Was the person arrested for speech alone? If so they should talk to a civil rights lawyer.

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TranscendentalEmpire @lemm.ee - 1.6yr

It's not a click baty title, it's accurate and to the point. He is a faculty professor who heard that armed police were approaching his students, and so he went to the protest as he was worried about their safety.

As soon as he arrived he was pinned to the ground and arrested with the rest of the students and several other faculty members.

Was the person arrested for speech alone?

Maybe read the article?

If so they should talk to a civil rights lawyer.

Which takes a lot of time...... Time in which more people will be arrested under false pretenses. This is the entire purpose of having a free press, so that regular people can broadcast the criminality that the government would rather be kept quite.

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thisbenzingring @lemmy.sdf.org - 1.6yr

Thank you for taking the time to explain Civics 010 to the low IQ.

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fubarx @lemmy.ml - 1.6yr

Not to undermine the valid points being made, but:

"Sarah D. Phillips is a professor of anthropology at Indiana University at Bloomington."

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Feathercrown @lemmy.world - 1.6yr

"Whenever I have a problem I will loudly complain, but if you have one you should just shut up about it. Why yes I do support free speech!"

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SkyezOpen @lemmy.world - 1.6yr

There have been police crackdowns on peaceful protests on campuses across the US. Pay attention.

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Viking_Hippie @lemmy.world - 1.6yr

Someone hasn't been paying attention to US government reactions to peaceful protest for the last six decades..

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fireweed @lemmy.world - 1.6yr

Left-wing peaceful protests.

Right-wing protests get police escorts.

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Viking_Hippie @lemmy.world - 1.6yr

Yup! Cops look after their own and some of those that work forces want the paste that's for horses..

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ragepaw @lemmy.ca - 1.6yr

Bravo!

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istanbullu @lemmy.ml - 1.6yr

In America freedom of speech only applies if the government agrees with you.

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