Holt is actively involved in an attempt to systematically ban ideas he finds offensive at Alabama’s flagship institution. The attempt takes the form of a new ban on “any behavior which demeans or reduces an individual based on group affiliation or personal characteristics, or which promotes hate or discrimination.”Professor Adams correctly notes,
Wythe Holt, like so many others in academia, fails to understand that free expression is process, not a result. Public discourse cannot be rigged to guarantee certain results for certain groups contingent upon their present popularity with the powers that be.Particularly if the method of rigging discourse sets up a machinery of repression that can be captured by others.
I really must invite Herrn. Schneider und Schwarz over for Sprechers and a sheepshead game.

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