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Saw a student group at my school shut down for inviting a speaker, while another group got away with way worse
Last semester, the Young Democrats club at my school tried to host a talk with a local journalist who wrote a book critical of both major parties. The admin said it was 'too divisive' and pulled their funding, so the event died. Meanwhile, the Black Student Union held a 'speak out' where multiple people called for defunding the campus police and said some pretty harsh things about specific administrators by name. That event got full support and even a shoutout from the Dean of Students. The difference is clear: one group challenged the campus political consensus from the center, and the other challenged it from the approved left. Free speech on campus only seems to work one way now. If your ideas fit the right mold, you get a mic. If they don't, you get silenced. Has anyone else seen this kind of double standard play out with student funding?
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