Wherever free speech rights are set ablaze, FIRE shows up with the extinguisher.
While watching the vice presidential debate in 2020, history professor Lora Burnett started to tweet from her living room in conservative Collin County. Then-Vice President Mike Pence wouldn’t stop talking when the female moderator had repeatedly and kindly asked. Burnett, who’d been scrolling through her Twitter feed and reading comments from colleagues and friends, weighed in with a snarky quip.
FIRE is headquartered in Philadelphia and works with those embroiled in free speech controversies nationwide. The nonpartisan, nonprofit group has championed civil rights on campuses regardless of the speaker’s political views, and lately it’s taken up several North Texas-based controversies, including Burnett’s.Shortly after Burnett’s tweet about Pence, Collin College President Neil Matkin violated her civil rights, she said.
Burnett added that there’s “nothing in the manual” that prepares professors to deal with attacks on their civil rights. She’s thankful that FIRE came to her defense. “They saw something amiss in what was happening to me and immediately stepped in to advocate for me,” Burnett said, “which I will never cease to be grateful for.”It was Jan. 13, 1993, and a group of Black sorority sisters were talking outside of Jacobowitz’s dorm room window.
Social media has supercharged the threat to faculty speech, Creeley said. The country is deeply polarized these days, and outspoken professors and students often aren’t granted the grace of having divergent views. But Creeley reasoned that the First Amendment serves as a relief valve for those who are pissed off about the state of the world, and it’s worth protecting. Best to answer speech that you don’t like with more speech, he said.
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