{"id":332938,"date":"2017-10-31T18:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-free-speech-dismantles-diversity-initiatives\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T18:26:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T17:26:27","slug":"when-free-speech-dismantles-diversity-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-free-speech-dismantles-diversity-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"When Free Speech Dismantles Diversity Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_97148\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97148\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-30-at-9.16.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"392\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Newtown grafitti | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC by 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><br \/>Case # 1:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In October 2017, Drexel University\u2019s administration unilaterally suspended Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2017\/10\/11\/drexel-places-controversial-professor-leave?link_id=1&amp;can_id=0026ff9f11e8ae9ffd18bbfa0a3d0146&amp;source=email-aaup-weighs-in-on-drexel-university\">George Ciccariello-Maher<\/a>, a professor whose area of specialty is race and politics. His tweet about the Las Vegas shooting by Stephen Paddock, led to a campaign of harassment against him. In his series of tweets Ciccariello-Maher blamed \u201cTrumpism\u201d and the entitlement of white men for carrying out acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Case # 2:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bill Mullen, professor of American Studies and an organizer for the Campus Anti-Fascist Network requested that Purdue University (where he teaches) investigate documented incidences of White Supremacy on campus.\u00a0 What Mullen received instead was a response from Purdue\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2017\/10\/19\/professors-say-purdue-president-trying-deflect-attention-inaction-white-supremacy\">President Mitch Daniels<\/a> saying, \u201cI have spent considerable time replying to multiple messages from citizens who find your various pronouncements abhorrent and unacceptable and demand that you be sanctioned or expelled from the university entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Case #3: <\/em><\/p>\n<p>On October 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017, students at Columbia University protested and disrupted a far right speaker, Tommy Robinson, an anti-Islam British activist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/fast-forward\/385587\/columbia-probes-students-who-disrupted-far-right-speaker\/\">Columbia University is now formally investigating<\/a> the student activists.<\/p>\n<p>College campuses are clearly on the frontline of the right wing\u2019s battle against diversity and multiculturalism. These incidents at Drexel, Purdue and Columbia add to the larger narrative unfolding in colleges and university campuses across the country where students&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/10\/31\/when-free-speech-dismantles-diversity-initiatives\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Newtown grafitti | CC by 2.0 Case # 1: In October 2017, Drexel University\u2019s administration unilaterally suspended Professor George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor whose area of specialty is race and politics. His tweet about the Las Vegas shooting by Stephen Paddock, led to a campaign of harassment against him. In his series of tweets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}