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  1. Maybe take your own advice. I'm sorry we annoyed you by daring to care.
  2. We may not always live up to our ideals, but they are not dead until we stop trying to fight for them. If everyone adopted your mentality, the US and the future would truly be gone. Maybe you'd care if you had kids that you'd want to grow up in it.
  3. I don't understand not caring about civil rights. I don't understand the need to have a strong opinion despite demonstrated and admitted ignorance. I don't understand how any objective view of history, either US or global, could conclude the protests are unimportant and accomplish little. I think @DixonHur's worldview is one born of exhaustion, ignorance, and laziness. I suppose I appreciate his efforts to explain it, but ultimately I'm mostly disgusted and disappointed. If you're that tired of living in the world, maybe just let the rest of us that do still care handle it. This is @Brisketexan and his ledge after he has lost all hope and the fire to at least go down fighting.
  4. Why are you being an ass? I haven't even used the term fascism in this thread. If you want to learn about the law, I'm happy to explain things to you. But right now it seems like you're just here to troll.
  5. That has nothing to do with UT. You can't restrict speech because someone somewhere else did something. That isn't how the law works. Seriously, you need to take some time and actually study this topic. Read the primer I posted. Go read some stuff from the ACLU. You're really out of your depth here. You need to learn before you run in defiantly with hot takes.
  6. Sigh... You don't understand the law or your rights at all. 1) the University is a government institution. For purposes of the First Amendment it is the government. And yes, the first amendment has been incorporated and applied to the states via the 14th amendment. And the Texas Constitution has its own analogous provision. 2) the first amendment protections extend beyond mere passage of laws and apply to actions by government agencies and entities. Rather than write out a full primer, I direct you here which covers the topic indepth and provides numerous case citations: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/censorship
  7. Wow. There was like 10 minutes between posts. Try not to double down on ignorance and being an ass when you clearly don't know what you're talking about about. Also, you just quoted my long post over viewing the law for you. Continue wallowing in ignorance and hate. Whatever.
  8. First, how about you show any evidence where that happened AT UT? Protesting treatment of Palestinians is not the same thing as urging the destruction of Israel or threatening Jews. Second, the first amendment absolutely protects pretty terrible speech.
  9. That's because you are ignorant as to what those rights are.
  10. Where in that video does it show a tent city? Where in that video is there any violation except a violation of the first amendment? You are way out over your skiis here.
  11. One: there is no evidence they were creating a "tent city" or taking any actions that violated school policy Two: and this is a big one, you don't seem to understand what freedom of speech means. Open areas on campus (e.g., the south lawn) are part of the public forum and available to the public for assembly by law. The government (i.e., the police and UT) does not get to prevent speech because they do not like the content. It does not get to restrict the freedom of assembly because it does not like the content of speech. UT isn't a private actor. These aren't private lands. The Constitution gives those students the right to assemble and speak there. The University destroyed those rights. Why you're ok hand waiving the violation of core civil rights is absolutely beyond me. Three: the University should have allowed them to gather and to speak. Only if the gathering starting getting threatening, violent, destructive, or overly disruptive of school (e.g., barring people from class), should the police have been called in. But sure, you just ignore core rights because you don't really care what the speakers have to say.
  12. That, and students most certainly had authorization to be in the six pack.
  13. Isn't that why college exists? It would be unamerican to stop them.
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