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https://reason.com/2020/01/11/babson-college-adjunct-professor-administrator-fired-for-facebook-post/
finehoe sayshttps://reason.com/2020/01/11/babson-college-adjunct-professor-administrator-fired-for-facebook-post/
They're private and thus not bound to the 1st. It's an edge case and certainly there are good arguments for both sides. Reason makes a case for the lefty here as they're principled defenders of civil liberties without bias. That's rare.
Rights are still rights on private property.
Can you own black slaves in a private cotton farm?
mell saysfinehoe sayshttps://reason.com/2020/01/11/babson-college-adjunct-professor-administrator-fired-for-facebook-post/
They're private and thus not bound to the 1st. It's an edge case and certainly there are good arguments for both sides. Reason makes a case for the lefty here as they're principled defenders of civil liberties without bias. That's rare.
mell says
They're private and thus not bound to the 1st.
However, they do receive benefit from student grants, so it may be possible for the federal government to say "no federal funds be directed toward any institution with an anti-constitutional (read: anti-American) position."
The bigger problem here is the unconstitutional law being used against this guy. Seems like the Neo-Bolsheviks have gotten pretty full of themselves after getting so many unconstitutional gun laws in the books that it was time to work on the removal of other rights as well.
You can't but that's because you're violating civil / human rights. Having and keeping a job is not a civil / human right. I agree he shouldn't have been fired. I think Patrick mentioned that CA actually has laws against getting fired for your political opinion IIRC but those obviously aren't strong/precise enough.
Connecticut itself might have a 1A analogue in their state constitution.
However, the kid has to appeal for it to be struck down, which he should.
A University of Connecticut student who was arrested for using the n-word has narrowly avoided jail.
The headline of that picture doesn't make sense to me. Was it AI-generated?
Now that the first Amendment has been overtly and deliberately violated, you can be charged with a crime for supporting Trump, or for insulting Trump.
Either way, we all lose.