We previously discussed the free speech litigation at Clovis Community College, which censored students promoting Freedom Week in November 2021, a week in which student groups oppose socialism and support conservative causes. It has now settled that case and must pay $330K, adopt a new speech-protective policy, and train staff in the First Amendment. Yet, there is no indication that any of these officials who denied the free speech of students will be held accountable after this ruling.
The lawsuit was brought by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) attorney on behalf of three students at Clovis Community College. The students are members of the school’s chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom. They allege that they had received approval to post anti-communist and anti-socialist flyers on bulletin boards inside campus buildings last November. However, Clovis President Dr. Lori Bennett allegedly ordered the flyers taken down.
The defendants in the suit are Clovis Community College President Lori Bennett, Vice President of Student Services Marco De La Garza, Dean of Student Services Gurdeep Sihota Hebert and Senior Student Services Program Specialist Patrick Stumpf.
The college insists that it reserves the right to remove flyers over “inappropriate or [offensive] language or themes.” The lack of any definition for those vague terms would weigh heavily with the court in granting the preliminary injunction.
FIRE produced emails showing that a college administrator offered to “gladly take down” the flyers after “several people” said that they were “very uncomfortable” with the flyers, including a person who allegedly threatened a “harassment claim” if the posters were not taken down.
The lawsuit includes a claim that, in December 2021, the students were denied permission by the dean of student services to post pro-life flyers on bulletin boards inside campus buildings. They were told they could instead post them on a “free speech kiosk,” which is described as “a small box covered in rotting wood planks… at the edge of a walkway students virtually never use because it does not lead to any building entrances or parking lots.”
Under the settlement agreement, Clovis’s community college district will:
- Adopt a new posting policy that will protect the First Amendment rights of all student groups across the district.
- Hold annual First Amendment training sessions for all district administrators and certify in writing who attended and what training materials were used in 2024 and 2025.
- Pay the students $20,000 in damages each, plus $250,000 in attorneys’ fees, for a total of $330,000.
Unfortunately, as we have seen repeatedly, school officials deny free speech to students and faculty but are rarely held accountable. To the contrary, these cases (while expensive for taxpayers and donors) are personally beneficial for these officials.
Universities and colleges routinely lose in courts over these denials but there is still no evidence of a deterrent effect on actual conduct.
Instead, these settlements and verdicts are treated as a cost of doing business for anti-free speech administrators.
“We previously discussed the free speech litigation at Clovis Community College, which censored students promoting Freedom Week in November 2021, a week in which student groups oppose socialism and support conservative causes.”
– Professor Turley
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Americans cannot “oppose socialism.”
Socialism cannot exist in America per Article 1, Section 8, and the 5th Amendment right to private property.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
Congress cannot impose Central Planning, Control of the Means of Production (i.e. unconstitutional regulation), Redistribution of Wealth, and Social Engineering.
Congress has no power to tax for anything other than debt, defense, and general Welfare.
Congress cannot tax for individual welfare, specific welfare, particular welfare, favor, or charity.
General welfare—ALL, WELL, PROCEED—consists of basic infrastructure that serves all, not one, some, or a few, such as roads, water, electricity, rubbish collection, sewers, a post office, airports, a railroad, police, fire, and other facilities, commodities, and services not readily provided by the private sector.
Congress has the enumerated power to regulate only the value of money, commerce among nations, States, and Indian tribes, and land and naval Forces.
Congress has no power to deny the 5th Amendment absolute right to private property.
The right to private property is qualified (i.e. may be taken after just compensation) by the amendment itself and cannot be further qualified or denied by Congress or any other branch or level of government.
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 59 years after the adoption of the Constitution because none of the principles of the Communist Manifesto were in the Constitution. Had the principles of the Communist Manifesto been in the Constitution, Karl Marx would have had no reason to write the Communist Manifesto. The principles of the Communist Manifesto were not in the Constitution then, and the principles of the Communist Manifesto are not in the Constitution now.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals, while it is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure.
America is the Land of the Free, not the prison of the communist enslaved.
USA v Trump case resumes:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656604/197/united-states-v-trump/
Interestingly, the FIRST thing the corrupt DC judge did in issuing this Order is to DENY another pending Trump motion.
I take that as a clear announcement that nothing has changed and that she will continue to deny Trump’s Motions on sight, probably continue trying to interfere with the election, probably try to keep Trump off the campaign trail by making him sit in her godforsaken courtroom, and probably try to rush the case to trial before the election.
Did you notice that the order said Trump did not have to appear at the conference and that the motion was denied without prejudice and could be considered later?
Meanwhile, I just read Turley’s Saturday piece in The Hill:
“Agenda over athletes: How the Paris Games became a competition for woke gold”
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4808322-paris-olympics-political-controversies/
It begins innocently enough by criticizing the French Olympics over controversies such as the tranny Last Supper during the opening ceremonies. But it eventually transforms into yet another commercial for Turley’s book, which is conduct that in my estimation isn’t much different than the tranny Last Supper, in the sense that Turley is hijacking the Olympics for his own agenda much the same way that the trannytards hijacked the opening ceremony to promote THEIR own agenda.
The sad fact about Turley hijacking the Olympics to peddle his “book” and the trannies hijacking the Olympics to peddle their sexual politics is that NONE of these SELFISH FRAUDS have any regard for the original intention of the Olympic games as a celebration of athletic excellence FOR ITS OWN SAKE.
As far as I’m concerned, there is NO difference between what Turley did and what the trannytards did. But the fact that Turley used the Olympics and its controversies to sell his “book” is actually even lower than what the trannytards did, because to the best of my knowledge, the trannies weren’t intending to literally cash in on their hijacking of the narrative, but Turley IS.
The legitimate purpose of the Olympics is NOT to peddle transgenderism OR for a lawyer to peddle his “book.” But I’m sure Turley’s hired trolls will find Turley’s Olympic exploitation acceptable while frowning on the transgender exploitation of the Olympics.
*LORETTA
Read The Hill article. It was fine. JT works on his own time and money.
The “West” is being punished, persecuted. France went ground zero on the whole shebang. That’s a statement, too. Want to punish me? Here, let me help.
You do not pay to read this blog. This blog is paid for among other ways by those who buy Turley’s book.
the Olympics is paid for by Advertising, the MSM is paid for by advertising. Social Media is paid for by Advertising.
Advertising is a fact of life get over yourself.
Regardless, you are free to buy Turley’s book or not.
You can skip the book plug if you want.
You can skip the entire article if you want.
*LORETTA
Thank you for the permission. Does the pronoun “you” apply to all people? Generic?
Prof T does mention the book elsewhere. Sounds like an interesting book.
“Turley is hijacking the Olympics for his own agenda”.
Are you in some sort of contest with George Svelaz to see who can say the most incredibly stupid shit?
What competition or ceremony did Turley appear in? I must have missed that.
Spastic idiot
One must assume that there are many uncomfortable Jewish students in American Universities who are not burning Palestinian flags or painting mosques with kill all the muslims graffiti. Who could have known that snowflakes would become dangerous to the freedom of those who don’t agree with them. A snowflake made of fire caught on your tongue and they expect you to just stand there and take it so that they can remain in control of your speech and your thoughts. These are not good people.
What, no book plugging on this column? Shocking, shocking I say.
YAF students got their complaint addressed and the college got corrected by the courts. Just as it should. But professor Turley, as it is with most conservatives, wants punishment and that usually means severe punishment in some form. He wonders why school officials are not held accountable. Turley knows why that is, he should know. He’s a lawyer.
The college taking down the flyers is a violation of the 1st amendment. But, it’s not a crime. It’s a civil violation, not a criminal violation. Crimes have specific punishments. I haven’t seen Turley cite any specific law or statute that spells out a punishment for violating the 1st amendment. Since the majority of cases like the one in the column are just violations of a civil nature. Courts can only “punish” the violator by ordering compensatory monetary relief. They are not crimes in the legal sense. Turley, as a lawyer should understand that. But he seems to want punishment, harsher punishment. He doesn’t say exactly what it should be, but I assume he wants punishment like termination, or personal financial loss. Since it is a public school tax payers pay, just as it is when police officers violate someone’s rights. There are insurance policies for those kinds of things. Thats where settlement money comes from, insurance.
Hey George, if you have an accident in your car and it was your fault your insurance premiums go up. Multiple offenses will cause the cancellation of your insurance. How do you manage to come up with so many “so what” ideas. The question the insurance companies will have is, why didn’t you just allow free speech in the first place so our company wouldn’t have to pay for your foolishness? I know, a logical line of reasoning is not in your toolbox.
“ Hey George, if you have an accident in your car and it was your fault your insurance premiums go up. Multiple offenses will cause the cancellation of your insurance.”
Yeah, multiple offenses. There’s usually a limit. With home insurance if you file more than 3 claims a year they can drop you. But some insurance companies like those that cover public institutions like police and schools they have higher limits given the nature of the institution.
Police violate rights all the time and get sued all the time. Insurance covers the majority of lawsuits and settlements. They don’t cancel policies. They just increase premiums and citizens pay more in taxes.
Insurance companies are not going to question things until they get WAY out of hand.
Turley wants punishment for school officials. It’s a civil violation not a criminal one.
You make Denis look rational.
George, now you just said it. You try to infer that it’s no big deal because insurance pays for it and then you admit that in the end it’s the tax payer who pays the settlement. You’re like the person who says that it’s no big deal to me because the government pays for it. Your tactic is known as obfuscation. Please address if you will the removal of the right of free speech from the students in the complaint. Isn’t that more important than your need to boost your ego from the use of something that is not related to the prohibition of speech on college campuses. I understand, it makes you feel very good about yourself.
*LORETTA
Insurance fraud or scammers is a big ol’ cash cow. The image is community College fatman with bucks pouring out of his pockets. Behind the bushes are weasels and scammers licking their teeth.
Enroll some free speechers.
I’m not inferring that it’s no big deal. I’m saying that it’s how it is. There’s insurance to cover those things.
Yesterday, I posted something to George, and I started it with something like “Good God, dear George” -don’t remember the exact phrase I used, I only remember that I said it because it was just an outburst to his comment and then I regretted because I didn’t want to use the Lord’s name.
Suddenly today, good old George has started at least three different comments with the words “Geez,” “Jesus,” and “Good Lord.”
Goerge and gigi and dennis are so predictable–they incorporate others’ styles and words that they like or impresses them, into their own comments, or lift them off of media sites they saw online. truly a joke.
There is no requirement that you have multiple claims for your home insurance to drop your insurance.
Insurance companies do not typically “drop” a policy during the contract term – typically a year.
They notify you that they are not renewing and you must negotiate a new policy – with that company or another.
Insurance companies do not need any reason at all to refuse to renew a contract.
In some states if you file more than claims for home insurance they can drop you when the time to renew comes. But as you said they typically don’t just drop you. But it happens.
Which states George?
Cite the regulations you just pulled out of your ass.
“Police violate rights all the time and get sued all the time. Insurance covers the majority of lawsuits and settlements. They don’t cancel policies. They just increase premiums and citizens pay more in taxes.”
False – successful lawsuits related to the conduct of police are extremely rare.
Qualified immunity thwarts the vast majority of such lawsuits.
Even when a plantiff can manage to get passed QI the next problem they face is that awards are usually from juries made of the people who will have to pay the tax increases resulting from the award. There are exceptions – where Juries grant large awards these typically occur in large cities where the jurors are significantly disconnected from the tax increases that might result from the award.
“ False – successful lawsuits related to the conduct of police are extremely rare.
Qualified immunity thwarts the vast majority of such lawsuits.”
Not extremely rare. It happens quite a lot. What you are arguing is qualified immunity. That just covers the officer from personal accountability. Not the department or government institution. Most cases end up with settlements which ARE paid out by insurance and that includes litigation costs.
Increasingly police are making more and more clear cut civil rights violations.
How often, George Svelaz?
Just making shit up again.
Why do you just make shit up “all the time”?
George one of the most off putting aspects of your posts – is that you write authoritatively about things you clearly know nothing about
Most of your remarks about Insurance are correct – a very small portion of the time.
“Turley wants punishment for school officials. It’s a civil violation not a criminal one.”
What you think that there is no such thing as punishment for breach of contract or for a Tort ?
One of the distinctions between civil and criminal law is that criminal law punishments can include loss of liberty or even loss of life.
The punishment is civil cases is nearly always money.
I do know what I’m talking about. You’re off put because you know I’m right.
“ What you think that there is no such thing as punishment for breach of contract or for a Tort ?”
What contract? In this case there is no contract involved. Government institutions violating a civil right is not a contractual agreement.
“ One of the distinctions between civil and criminal law is that criminal law punishments can include loss of liberty or even loss of life.”
No sheet Sherlock
“ The punishment is civil cases is nearly always money.“
Which is what I pointed out. Turkey wants to punish administrators or faculty further than the law requires. Like most conservatives they want severe punishment more than the law requires. He wonders why the government officials are not held accountable. He knows why. He just wants more.
I do know what I’m talking about.
If you have to tell people you know what you’re talking about, its a pretty good indication you dont.
*LORETTA
Google shows Ms Bennett left the college and is freelance consulting .
Where in the article did he say or imply that this was a criminal matter?
Oh geez, still missing the point. You’re hopeless.
That’s not an answer.
Who is that person Svelaz?
It wasnt me.
What was the pijnt of you implying that Turley confused it with a criminal matter.
Was that supposed to make you look smart? It didnt. It made you look stupid. Again.
“…as it is with most conservatives, wants punishment and that usually means severe punishment in some form.” Of course liberals never want vengeance or overly severe punishment to serve as a deterrent. However, that might sound a bit odd to many of the J-6 protestors, or people who lost their jobs for speaking out against an experimental vacine mandate, or Trump cabinet members who stood up for executive privilege or… The list goes on
“YAF students got their complaint addressed and the college got corrected by the courts. Just as it should.”
No, Violations of students rights should not happen. Period. Not for YAF students not for Pro-Hamas protestors.
“But professor Turley, as it is with most conservatives, wants punishment and that usually means severe punishment in some form. He wonders why school officials are not held accountable. Turley knows why that is, he should know. He’s a lawyer.”
This is a civil matter – but violations of rights can arise to a criminal level.
Punishment for punishments sake is NOT the issue. The core problem is that this never should have happened, and the fact that it did means there is not sufficient deterance or understanding to preclude it in the future.
It is really disturbing that part of the remedy here is training of the administration.
Anyone who was educated in this country that does not know that censoring political speech in public forums is wrong, in most cases illegal and unconstitutional – deserves a refund for their education.
The fact that colleges need to waste money to teach their administrations something that anyone who graduated from 5th grade should know is a major educational failure in this country.
You ranted before that Students should control their education in college.
I do not think we can attribute the poor education of college administrators to student control of colleges – this failure occured Below the College level. Colleges should not be teaching the BASICS of free speech – they should be dealing with much more advanced and complex areas of issues like rights.
Regardless, this is a clear educational failure – and not one at this college – though these administrators graduated from Colleges that clearly failed. This is a fundamental failure at the elementary school level – and this decision does not correct that.
But it does directly address your repeated nonsense that students should somehow pick their teachers and in effect what they are being taught. If that was actually a good idea – why do we need college at all ?
Education is not about providing students what THEY think they need to know. It is about teaching them what Adults in the real world – primarily prospective employers think they need to know.
I am not personally all that concerned about the award. This offense is only huge in terms that the administration should have known this was immoral and illegal. The actual offense is small and we do not typically slam first offenders – particularly when the damage is not huge.
But Clovis is on notice. A repeat should result in an exponentially larger award.
“The college taking down the flyers is a violation of the 1st amendment. But, it’s not a crime. It’s a civil violation, not a criminal violation. Crimes have specific punishments. ”
You are correct – but I would bet that you do not know the difference between a crime and a civil violation or the different types of civil violations.
“I haven’t seen Turley cite any specific law or statute that spells out a punishment for violating the 1st amendment.”
Because the principle behind civil law decisions is that the defendant must make the plantiff whole, and additionally that the court/jury should impose punative damages appropriate to the conduct.
Regardless, this is a settlement. Not an award by the Judge.
“Since the majority of cases like the one in the column are just violations of a civil nature. Courts can only “punish” the violator by ordering compensatory monetary relief. ”
Again the FACTS are this was a settlement not a court or jury award. Courts and Jury’s can and do award more than compensatory damages.
Depending on the behavior and the knowledge of the defendant they can award punative damages.
“They are not crimes in the legal sense. Turley, as a lawyer should understand that.”
Correct. This is both a tort, and a breach of contract matter. Further the case was settled, not adjudicated by the court.
“But he seems to want punishment, harsher punishment. He doesn’t say exactly what it should be, but I assume he wants punishment like termination, or personal financial loss. Since it is a public school tax payers pay, just as it is when police officers violate someone’s rights. There are insurance policies for those kinds of things. Thats where settlement money comes from, insurance.”
You do not think people should be personally accountable for actions that infringe on the rights of others ?
Clovis may or may not be insured with respect to this. That insurance may or may not cover the individual actions of specific managers.
You used police as an example – insurance does not typically broadly cover police – because they are protected by qualified immunity.
This is one of the reasons for getting rid of qualified immunity.
I have no problem with insurance covering things like this – the insurance company will likely raise rates or drop coverage as a result of this settlement. That is appropriate. The increase in premiums is likely to be significant – because the NEXT award will likely be exponentially larger. That is approriate.
Every local government in California (of which a community college district is an example) typically belongs to some sort of joint powers insurance authority along with similar agencies. They’re generally self-insured, but have an umbrella policy for catastrophic losses. For Clovis Community College, I found this: https://vip-jpa.org/about-vipjpa/membershipgovernance/
“ Education is not about providing students what THEY think they need to know. It is about teaching them what Adults in the real world – primarily prospective employers think they need to know.”
In a free market system students choose what they want to learn. It’s their liberty to choose. You make arguments on free market philosophy and claim it’s the only and best way to let things function.
Here you’re saying students don’t get to decide what education they want. You’re griping about indoctrination and leftist this and that. Here you’re basically calling for indoctrination.
Of course schools already do what you say they should. You just don’t like the fact that there are “leftists” who are doing the teaching.
In a free market system students choose what they want to learn.
You keep saying this and its in the running for the stupidest shit you’ve ever said.
Teenagers dont determine whats taught at Universities, you have exactly ZERO basis for that made up horse shit.
Accreditation do you even know what that is??
I have sent 4 kids and 3 SO’s thru college and hold 3 degrees of my own. None of us had any goddam say in what we were taught or the manner in which it was taught. We chose where we were taught it. Extra curricular nonsense is not student driven either numbskull.
You’ve clearly never been to college.
Did you google that fvckijg nonsense?
Oh Jesus. John, you’ve got to learn to condense your replies to relevant points. You tend to table and start grievances unrelated to the subject at hand.
“ No, Violations of students rights should not happen. Period. Not for YAF students not for Pro-Hamas protestors.”
Well DUH! But they do happen and that’s why we have a system in place to address it. Turley is bothered by the fact that those who do violate rights aren’t held personally accountable. He wants government officials to suffer ‘real’ consequences. Unfortunately that’s not how it works with our legal system.
“ Again the FACTS are this was a settlement not a court or jury award. ”
You’re just like Tom/anonymous. Read for comprehension. Pay attention to what you’re reading. I get that you want to jump right into your rebuttal, but you’ve got to slow down and get what you’re reading.
Turley’s main gripe is he laments there’s no ‘real’ punishment given to government officials. He wants punishment that will “hurt” them in some way, financially or something. Just as he wants students who protest outside and ‘violate school policy’ to be expelled or fined or something along those lines despite the fact that they are exercising their constitutional rights. Especially when it involves liberals.
“You’re just like Tom/anonymous. Read for comprehension.”
When are you going to admit that you are Svelaz? Lying sack of shit coward.
That tired horse manure never worked for you then either Svelaz. You need to find a different schtick.
You do realize other people are reading your nonsense, right? They can clearly see the stupid shit you say and then try to run from when you cant justify it.
By the way, every anonymous that calls out your dumb shit is not me. Get used to it. Why os it you’re the only one that nobody can comprehend??? Lmao such weak sauce. Pathetic.
“ You do not think people should be personally accountable for actions that infringe on the rights of others ?”
Government officials are held to a different standard. They are not sued as private citizens.
“ You used police as an example – insurance does not typically broadly cover police – because they are protected by qualified immunity.”
They do need it when they are found at fault for violations.
John Say,
“ The college taking down the flyers is a violation of the 1st amendment. But, it’s not a crime. It’s a civil violation, not a criminal violation. Crimes have specific punishments. ”
You are correct – but I would bet that you do not know the difference between a crime and a civil violation or the different types of civil violations.”
I do know the difference that’s why I mentioned it. You would think that would be an obvious clue. You jump to assumptions way too much.
“I do know the difference.”
George, you must try (unlike “trying real hard”) to comprehend what you are reading when you review and respond to comments. I would suggest that there are quite a few lawyers attorneys litigators even jurists that attend to this site regularly, and maybe that is why you get so much push-back from so many of them. I would also suggest that you accordingly follow your own advice.
What we have is a contrarian who’s IQ is not up to the task of arguing that which he doesnt believe himself. So he says stupid shit and then tries to run from it by claiming the point is missed or reading comprehension.
There are some really smart people here who have “comprehended” their way to highly successful lives and careers Svelaz-George is not one. Its the weak sauce of a low IQ to claim someone doesnt “comprehend” his dumb ass.
*LORETTA
Going back to the article regarding BB, the flyers should be left in place. Anyone can tear them down quietly. Having feelings hurt or being annoyed isn’t a criminal or a civil case.
Bennett is just a fool.
She’s no longer at the college.
$330,000 is chump change for Clovis Community College President Lori Bennett and her staff of committed communists. This judgement won’t deter them in any way since it completely avoids any personal responsibility. A drop in the proverbial bucket Jonathan.
Skyraider1717, let me introduce you to something that you don’t presently understand or care about. It’s the principle of the thing.
*LORETTA
Maybe Bennett got a kickback. The free speeches got an ez 20 thou each.
*LORETTA
It was worth about 5 dollars total for flyer paper.
Since 3 x 20 + 250 ≠ 330, I took a quick look at the settlement agreement. There’s an additional $20k for the YAF. But it also says the three students will each provide a W-9. So their three $20k payments are taxable income? I thought a tort required an equalizing payment which isn’t considered income. Since they took the college to school, it seems like they’re being paid like adjunct lecturers.
Creekan, taxable income only comes into play if you have a job. Even if a student has a part time job the addition of $20,000 would have a minuscule effect on your taxes if any. If your going to make a comment about taxes maybe you should know what your talking about. I know, to much to ask.
Community colleges are generally two-year institutions offering an Associate degree. Since the events happened in November, 2021, the students have likely moved on. They might’ve gone on earn Bachelor degrees at four-year colleges by June of this year or they might’ve already been working as dental hygienists or electronics technicians so their $20k payments are taxable at their marginal rates in California, which could be 30%.
I’ve received insurance payments and settled lawsuits and never had to pay income taxes on the proceeds. So my question is really about torts. Why do the former students need to provide W-9’s?
Tort settlements are considered to be income. Such settlements are taxable, unless they are related to personal injury
*LORETTA
What is the hierarchy of insurance policies ? These are no doubt paid with taxes, too. Board of trustees? Fire Ms Bennett for cause and a few others to cover the cost of attorneys’ fee in spirit.
Shut down the school and save the cost in total. Always a sucker out there with tax money – your bucks are my bucks. Let’s really get into this scam.
The college will just raise tuition, to cover their loss, the students will borrow more money, for taxpayers to repay. It’s a winwinlose.
*LORETTA
Don’t confuse student loans and dead end flyer postings on splintered wood.
The same leftist goons, like Biden/Harris, want to strip immunity way from Trump as a sitting president and yet the president of a college NEVER has to reach into her pockets to pay these penalties.
Judges can release a KNOWN rapist back into the community where he will rape again and he can’t be held accountable, but the leftist goons want to strip a cop of his immunity if he runs into an alley and makes a terrible MISTAKE when confronted by a strange guy standing there. Sue the city, I am fine with that, but the left wants to be able to sue the cop because this way cops will never take any action against the people that vote for Democrats…the crooks.
Dennis, Gigi, Svelaz-George, and Lawn Boy the booger eating troll:
10 points for each correct attribution. Who said the following (Trump or Biden)?
1. If you don’t vote for me, you aint black
2. He’s the first bright, clean, articulate, “14” in mainstream politics
3. To own a hotel or 7-11, ya gotta have an Indian accent
4. I dont want my kids going to school in a racial jungle
5. Latino’s resist vaccinations because they’re afraid they will be deported
6. Black’s resist the vaccine because of the “Tuskeegee Airmen” (this is one of my favorites)
7. Unlike the African American community, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things
8. The Senate is lesser without (KKK) Robert Byrd.
9. John “Southern Manifesto” Stennis was a “hell of a guy”.
10. Segregationists like Eastland and Thurmond and all those guys. But at least we’d end up eating lunch together.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/15/bidens-racist-history/
Of course they felt “uncomfortable.”
They are leftist snowflakes!
But if there is a pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protest, they have no problem chanting “From river to sea!”
Upstate, they will way worse than chant slogans, they actually prevented Jewish students from accessing the library, harassed Jews and screamed NAZI type slogans.
Question: why the lion’s share as attorney’s fee? Is this normal? Is FIRE using YAF for anti free speech trolling? Where are the college chapters of YAF with enrolled students? Are these chapters peppered throughout California?
A question for you, Upstate,
When the Good Professor votes Kamala in Nov.
will he still be ‘sane and normal’ to you or…?
–Cat
>”But if there is a pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protest, they have no problem chanting “From river to sea!””
Protesting Israel/IDF killing all those civilians in Gaza, mostly women and children, is not the same thing as being “pro Hamas” or even “anti Israel”. .. and establishing Israel “from the river to the sea” is exactly what Netanyahu’s gang, in particular, has been trying to accomplish his whole life.
Watching the ‘useful idiots’ in the U.S. Congress respond to ‘Bibi’s’ genocidal and duplicitous remarks was revolting.
*speaking of ‘free speech’, several U.S. lawmakers have since vowed to hold the protesters outside ‘accountable’. .. just like they did in Nazi Germany.
“Protesting Israel/IDF killing all those civilians in Gaza, mostly women and children, is not the same thing as being “pro Hamas” or even “anti Israel”. .. ”
Dgsnowden: Yes, it is because what you are saying is a proven lie, spoken by an anti-Semite with a limited view of the world around him.
The IDF is killing very few civilians, and almost all of the dead are Hamas soldiers, those supporting Hamas and those forced to be shields by Hamas.
“and establishing Israel “from the river to the sea” is exactly what Netanyahu’s gang, in particular, has been trying to accomplish his whole life.”
According to international law, Israel’s land from the river to the sea is sovereign. However, Israel was satisfied with the smaller portion won after 1948, but their enemy was not and waged war many times. Learn your history and the law so you won’t sound so stupid in the future. Earlier, I provided Gigi with a number of those laws and treaties. If you wish to debate them, I can furnish a few again.
It would be nice if you claims had sufficient context to verify
What representatives
What exactly did they say
Given that such claims always prove false
You are obligated to do better if you expect to be believed
What exactly was genocidal about his remarks?
What was duplicitous?
Or are you just hurling disconnected insults
John, Dgsnowden keeps babbling but has never been able to bring his anti-Semitic facts to the table. He can’t because they don’t make sense. No one in their right mind can say Israel is committing genocide, especially when the Gazan population is growing, and almost all the aid sent to them is used in their attempts to kill innocent Israeli civilians.
I would suspect that training materials will be similar to the training and school materials supplied by the UN to Palestinian students in Gaza. You know the teaching materials that promote Hamas, and obliterate Israel from the map of the world.
You know when companies do things that are reprehensible that are often forced to hire a monitor who actually monitors the situation and reports to the court about it’s success or backsliding. This is essentially putting a college on the honor system to do what they should have been doing all along .
I agree that some of the perpetrators should have been sued personally. This was obviously an illegal infringement of free speech in a public college.
Especially the administrator who said they would “gladly remove the offending flyers”, because people were “uncomfortable”. If you don’t like to look at it, then turn around and don’t look.
Snowflakes!
The link to Lori Bennett as President of Clovis does not work. She appears to have retired from Clovis in 2023 and was replaced by Kim Armstrong.
Hit the Liberals/Radical Left/Woke crowd in the Pocket book, hit them financially, that makes them scream, they have to pay $$$$$ for their Woke/Censoring policies and ideas.
I agree. But NONE of these admins will pay a personal price. The taxpayers of the district will. Every time. I wish there were some way to make the officials responsible for such behavior have to pay a personal price, but I don’t see that happening.
The bigger picture here is that people are increasingly turning against so-called higher education. The top tier (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc.) are safe, at least for the moment, but second and third tier schools like Clovis are seeing declining enrollment and collapsing financial support from state legislatures.
Sometimes you have to clear out the rot before you can rebuild.
The problems at 2nd and 3rd tier are demographic – a declining size of the student body.
With the same number of colleges and fewer students this tends to hurt 2nd and 3rd tier colleges more.
I do not know much about Clovis – but mostly this woke nonsense is more prevalent in upper tier and particularly Ivy’s – with some exceptions.
And that is to the benefit of 2nd and 3rd tier schools. Few Parents want to send their kids to Woke U.
Few Donors want to donate to Woke U.
*LORETTA
The Ivy leagues endowed with fortunes are another big ol’ cash cow for the woke.
A while ago a university (forgot which one) came out with a list of words that were unacceptable on campus. I’m pretty sure that in the A section you will find “accountability.”
The new left motto…
You may punish what I did, but
You cannot punish me.
So, I’ll do it again.
Schools have become not much more than day-care facilities, including most colleges & universities. Which is why too many kids, never grow up, and remain in an infantile state. They aren’t allowed to develop any real life skills, and certainly aren’t taught them. Even if they are lucky enough to land a job after, they don’t last long, because they can’t think for themselves, they need to be told what to do constantly. Problem solving is missing from their abilities.
Another policy. Drowning in policies. I’m all for the Bill of Rights, particularly the First Amendment, but it’s getting a little out of hand. I believe having the faculty and staff responsible for the denial of 1A rights should have to pay for the cost of litigation and the judgment. Of course, he!! will freeze over before anyone is held accountable.
Sounds good but will not work. Whether the institution is responsible of the individuals are responsible as a matter of law,
The awards will be paid by the institution – not the individual.
If you hold the individuals responsible – then all administrators (or police) will demand that the institution insure them.
What DOES work is that when the institute has to pay – or worse still risks an exponentially higher judgement for a repeat offense – they will politely tell the administrator to find work elsewhere, and prospective employers will be unlikely to hire those that put them at risk of a high judgement.
I hope that someone takes a good look at the training materials. Maybe they should require the “pupils” to read “The Indispensable Right”. NTL, it’s a very sad day when college faculty/administrators are required to take a refresher on 1A. More support for civics classes in middle/high school