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Spent $40 on a 'Free Speech' t-shirt and got escorted out of the quad
Honestly, I wore it to a campus event and a dean said it 'created a hostile environment'. The shirt just had the First Amendment printed on it. Has anyone else been told a plain text quote is too disruptive?
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rowan_butler936mo ago
Remember the actual text matters. The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law," not that private spaces like a quad can't have rules. A campus can decide a giant printed quote, even of the Constitution, disrupts their event. It's less about the words and more about the context you bring them into.
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bettyk534mo ago
Wait, are you saying my big cardboard cutout of the Bill of Rights at the campus talent show wasn't protected speech? Because I honestly thought I was being super patriotic, not just super awkward. Guess I should have checked the "giant historical documents" policy first.
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