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Gotta love right wingers clamoring for a revocation of tenure from a public institution (a bona fide First Amendment issue, since it's a government employer, and racism and public officeholders are clearly both areas of public interest per the Supreme Court) for speech nevertheless made off-campus...and then screeching about free speech when private citizens shut down a controversial speaker they don't like.
Right wing reactionaries appropriating the concept of "free speech" and mutilating it into partisan irrelevance might be my biggest new pet peeve. And the scant few 1A scholars who have conservative sympathies are just uncomfortably remaining silent on the issue while their compatriots drag us down the rabbit hole of policy incoherence and general reactionary retardation.
Right wing reactionaries appropriating the concept of "free speech" and mutilating it into partisan irrelevance might be my biggest new pet peeve. And the scant few 1A scholars who have conservative sympathies are just uncomfortably remaining silent on the issue while their compatriots drag us down the rabbit hole of policy incoherence and general reactionary retardation.