[Edling] US: When Campus Hate-Speech Rules Go Further Than the Law

[Francis Hult]

The Atlantic



When Campus Hate-Speech Rules Go Further Than the Law



It’s stunning how quickly the story in Columbia, Missouri, has turned from a debate about racism in the university community to a story about free speech—and attempts to limit it.



Most prominently, the video of a crowd intimidating a photographer—a student journalist—and attempting to block him from doing his job went viral. Tim Tai, the photographer, asserted his First Amendment rights with impressive poise and calm, given the pressure on him. (On Tuesday, the faculty of the School of Journalism were voting on whether to strip Melissa Click—an assistant professor of communication shown calling for “muscle” to push a reporter out—of her “courtesy” appointment in journalism.) Suddenly, the focus of the University of Missouri story has become about free speech.



Full story:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/hate-speech-on-campus/415200/
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