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With Governor Roy Cooper (D) taking no action on the bill, the state of North Carolina has enacted the Restore Campus Free Speech Act, the first comprehensive campus free-speech legislation based on the Goldwater proposal. That proposal, which I [Stanley Kurtz (Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center)] co-authored along with Jim Manley and Jonathan Butcher of Arizona's Goldwater Institute, was released on January 31 and is now under consideration in several states. It's fitting that North Carolina should be the first state to enact a Goldwater-inspired law.
[...] The North Carolina Restore Campus Free Speech Act achieves most of what the Goldwater proposal sets out to do. It ensures that University of North Carolina policy will strongly affirm the importance of free expression. It prevents administrators from disinviting speakers whom members of the campus community wish to hear from. It establishes a system of disciplinary sanctions for students and anyone else who interferes with the free-speech rights of others, and ensures that students will be informed of those sanctions at freshman orientation. It reaffirms the principle that universities, at the official institutional level, ought to remain neutral on issues of public controversy to encourage the widest possible range of opinion and dialogue within the university itself. And it authorizes a special committee created by the Board of Regents to issue a yearly report to the public, the regents, the governor, and the legislature on the administrative handling of free-speech issues.
Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/450027/north-carolina-campus-free-speech-act-goldwater-proposal
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @06:42PM
Those who don't learn of history are doomed to repeat it. Seeing people speak warnings of the Nazis while simultaneously pushing increasingly radicalized far left agenda is interesting. Of course we learn that the Nazis were far right, so there's no danger there... Yet it's interesting how little left or right ultimately mean, isn't it?
It's bizarre how completely reasonable that sounds when I did little more than change the pronouns in a paragraph that was describing underlying ideology of what we now view as one of the most fanatical groups in history. Of course they had their Jews, yet do those of the groups described today not have their 'while males' to blame for all the problems of society? And the turn to overt violence only happened after many years of building up hatred and blame for the Jews.