The 2020 murder of George Floyd sparked a dramatic increase in efforts to punish college professors, scholars and speakers for “controversial speech” with petitions, sanctions and firings, according to a free speech advocacy group.
The 2020 murder of George Floyd sparked a dramatic increase in efforts to punish college professors, scholars and speakers for “controversial speech” with petitions, sanctions and firings,A total of 509 professors were punished in 2020-22 at universities such as Harvard and Stanford, while 571 were sanctioned in the 20 years before Floyd’s 2020 death in Minneapolis police custody sparked protests nationwide, theThe number of efforts to silence professors for speaking out about racial issues...
The number of efforts to silence professors included 83 in 2017, 82 in 2018 and 87 in 2019, and jumped to 151 in 2020, 213 in 2021 and 145 last year,The report found 52% of last year’s attempts came from the political left, 41% came from the political right and the remaining 7% involved “unclear/irrelevant” nonpolitical conflicts.
Just 6% of those efforts accused a scholar of “contemptuous or malicious speech” intended to “offend, malign or endorse violence,”said. The group said that means most of the efforts targeted professors for expressing opinions about hot-button issues, violating their rights under the First Amendment. Last year, Harvard University led the nation in attempted and successful sanctions of scholars. The Ivy League institution took first place last April, when it canceled a lecture on British Romanticism by feminist philosopher Devin Buckley, who had stirred outrage among leftist graduate students for her unrelated view that there are no “male women.”
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