Stand up to PC Bureaucrats at Tulane University
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Fellow American,

 

You and I were raised in an America where the freedom of speech was never questioned. For today’s youth, that’s simply no longer the case.

 

Instead, political correctness is the rule of law at schools like Tulane University, where cries of “hate speech” are the weapon used to silence and punish anyone with an undesirable opinion. 

 

In fact, Tulane has proven that it’s more concerned about moderating hurt feelings than it is about students’ free speech rights. 

 

Their internet policy requires students to “communicate only in ways that are kind and respectful” -- and student activists are demanding that the school implement a “zero tolerance” policy that would investigate and punish any students who are accused of “hate speech”!

 

These aren’t the actions of an institution that cares about the intellectual growth of its students. They’re the actions of an administration kowtowing to the demands of an anti-intellectual mob!

 

Here at Speech First, we’re mobilizing pro-freedom Americans like you to defend free speech on college campuses nationwide. Will you stand with us now in demanding that Tulane reverse this disastrous policy before it can do any more damage to the futures of their thousands of students?

Speech codes like the one at Tulane are stunting the intellectual growth of today’s college students with each passing day -- and we can see the effects as we look around our towns and cities.

 

After four years in colleges that teach them that offensive speech can be “violent” or “harmful,” and then protect them from challenging or even controversial ideas, millions of young minds are released into the world completely unprepared to cope with the rigors of adult life.

 

The result?

 

Night after night, mobs of mostly young adults riot, burn, and loot their own cities. They campaign for the defunding of local police departments. And, perhaps most alarming of all, they call for restrictions on all Americans’ First Amendment rights -- according to a 2019 poll, 51 percent of millennials support rewriting the First Amendment to reflect “the cultural norms of today.”

 

Where do you think they got that idea?

 

That’s right -- from policies just like the one at Tulane.

 

Please sign the petition right now, and join the movement to defend free speech on campus -- and free speech for us all.

 

While Tulane’s policy is a nice code to live by, you and I know that expressing political opinions can too easily (and too conveniently) trigger fragile students who advocate for censorship. 

 

On the one hand, Tulane’s Social Media Guidelines state that it “encourages freedom of expression and recognizes the value of diverse opinions.” On the other hand, its Code of Student Conduct bans “harassment, intimidation, or cyberbullying” and forbids students from posting material that is “hateful, defamatory or embarrassing to anyone.” 

 

This is such a broad policy that anything could be perceived as bullying― especially on social media. What about the use of humor, satire, or parody to make a point? 

Without a clear definition of these terms, radical student activists on campus will be given too much power to shut down speech they disagree with. 

 

And we all know where that leads.

 

Recently, bureaucrats at Tulane caved to student demands and postponed an online talk by author Edward Ball, whose book, Life of a Klansman, described his ancestor’s experience as a white supremacist – a book that the New York Times lauded for its anti-racist message! 

 

That could have been the start of a very important and needed dialogue on campus, but the university allowed just a handful of students to make that decision for the entire university.   

 

This madness must end. Now is our chance to draw a line in the sand and defend free speech from the advances of political correctness.

 

Let’s encourage Tulane University to fix its broken policies and stand firm for free expression and discourse on campus.

 

The future of freedom on college campuses is the future of freedom for us all. Let’s defend it while there’s still time!

Thank you in advance for your support.

 

Sincerely,

 

Nicole Neily

President

Speech First