Clarence Page: A college-level challenge: When free speech sounds like cyberbullying

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At U. of C., a student's Twitter rhetoric sounds a lot like “a genuine threat or harassment,” which would violate campus free speech policies, cptime writes.

People work and relax on the Main Quadrangle at the University of Chicago on April 12, 2023. Under the university’s widely praised commitment to academic freedom, speech is restricted only when it “constitutes a genuine threat or harassment.”

Contrary to the insistence of Schmidt and other misreaders of her class title, Journey was not promoting anti-white hatred.Not quite, although I am sure that mislabeling innocent academic study as “hatred” helps to wake up the fearful masses. Conservatives have generated similar mileage from insisting that a “Black-supremacist” version of critical race theory is lurking under every bed.

For his part, Schmidt strongly denies encouraging anyone to harass her, and the university reportedly dismissed her claims. Under the university’s widely praised commitment to academic freedom, speech is restricted only when it “constitutes a genuine threat or harassment.” In this superheated environment, it becomes more important to counter disinformation with good information, beginning with “whiteness studies,” an area of sociological study and research that probes how race is defined, its origins and how it is constructed by societies more than by nature.As W.E.B. DuBois said in 1920, “The discovery of a personal whiteness among the world’s people is a very modern thing — a 19th and 20th matter, indeed.

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