Oklahoma University Teaches its Teachers How to Indoctrinate Students

Oklahoma University teachers are being trained to violate their students’ constitutional rights. This link includes an audio recording on which you can repeatedly hear unconstitutional indoctrination techniques being taught to the teachers. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has contacted OU to put the university on notice. Here’s the problem:

The workshop in question trains instructors on how to eliminate disfavored but constitutionally protected expression from the classroom and guide assignments and discussion into preferred areas — all for unambiguously ideological and viewpoint-based reasons. . . . By limiting classroom discussion and silencing dissent, professors violate the rights of conscience of their students. The clear aim is not merely to advocate a point of view but to coerce, if necessary, their students into believing the professor’s or school’s version of truth. Such oppressive actions clearly cross the line between education and indoctrination.

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Greg Lukianoff Discusses an “Eternally Radical Idea”

People utter the phrase "free speech" all the time, but it is a rare bird who appreciates how rare and precious this idea is, historically speaking. Here's an excerpt from an article by Greg Lukianoff:

What do you call an idea that has a clear track record of promoting innovation, human flourishing, prosperity, and progress, but is nonetheless rejected by every generation?

I would call that idea radical. And because it’s always so staunchly opposed, I would call that idea “eternally radical.”

So what is the Eternally Radical Idea? It is freedom of speech.

The unfettered right to state your opinion is extremely rare in human history. Your right to promote reform, contradict prevailing orthodoxies, or engage in artistic and personal expression is even rarer.

Indeed, human beings are natural born censors with a strong drive toward community conformity. Throughout the millennia, how have we typically handled dissenters? Often it’s ostracization or banishment. At other times, it’s arrest, torture, beheadings, burning at the stake, crucifixion, or drinking hemlock.

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Stanford University Reverses Anti-Free-Speech Decision and Acknowledges the Right to Express Satire and Parody

Good work here by Fire (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), which forced Standford University to reverse its decision withholding a law student's right to graduate because the student dared to write a email satirizing the Federalist Society, Sen. Josh Hawley, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, regarding the events of Jan. 6.

I had no part in this particular action, but I support the work of FIRE. In fact, I recently formed a working relationship with FIRE, a non-partisan free-speech non-profit. As a private practice attorney, I will be representing university faculty members who FIRE refers to me, people who are in need of legal support to address constitutional violations in the areas of free expression, academic freedom, and associational rights.

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