The turmoil on American campuses today has nothing to do with free speech. Rather, it uses free speech as an appeal to a Boomer trope—but it’s the wrong trope to use in this case.
Politicians and left-wing opinion leaders criticized the ongoing attempt to dismantle the so-called anti-Zionist encampments established at multiple universities as an unjustified attack on peaceful protest. For instance, U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib sounded out against law enforcement: “Sending in militarized police and snipers to stop students from exercising their First Amendment rights is truly disgusting.”
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