I have to say up front that I’m a fan of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Somewhere in a drawer I still have a t-shirt I got when I attended one of their events years ago. In the time since I’ve generally agreed with their takes on most issues related to free speech.
So, for instance, I agreed with them last December when they argued that even chanting something like “from the river to the sea” should not be banned on campus. Because while it’s definitely offensive (and meant to be), I don’t want to get into a habit of banning the left’s “hate speech” because I think that’s a distinction college administrators should not be making. Once you concede that some speech needs to be banned, you can guarantee the left will happily take up the crusade to ban a lot of speech they don’t like.
All of that to say, I generally agree with Greg Lukianoff, the president…
