Freedom of speech on trial at SFSU

A month ago, I wrote about dhimmitude run amok at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, where the University had announced its intention of persecuting college Republicans who had stamped on butcher paper representations of Hezbollah and Hamas flags, unaware that those flags had Mohammed’s name written upon them. The campus administration, of course, seemed sublimely unaware of the fact that, for Hamas, it’s considered protest 101 to burn the American flag. The University’s First Amendment ignorance is so blatant that even the ACLU has stepped in on the Republicans’ side. You know you’ve reached critical administrative idiocy when FIRE and college Republicans, on the one hand, and the ACLU, on the other hand, are arguing the same case.

Nevertheless, despite this massive display of Free Speech fire power from both the Left and the Right, the powers that be at SFSU refuse to back down. Instead, they’ve fallen back on fatuity, assuring FIRE that, while they’re going forward with a hearing for desecration (a pretty bizarre crime if we’re not supposed to be living in a theocracy), they really love free speech and will be fair to all parties involved. Uh-huh. The hearing is proceeding as we speak, so I’ll try to keep track of the outcome for you.

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