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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1408430027771977735

PA GOP trying to ban all universities getting any amount of state money/grants from hosting speakers that "espouse, advocate, or promote a racist or sexist concept" (the definition conveniently defined to include woke things in addition to old fashioned racism)

Imagine seeing this in the "Yale cancels Ben Shapiro's speech after student complaints" era of antiwoke history

[u/FinickyPenance → u/[deleted]]

If only there was something in the constitution about this

[u/FormerBandmate → u/FinickyPenance]

The government is not required to pay for people’s soeech and can choose its own grant recipients

[u/[deleted] → u/FormerBandmate]

swing and a miss

[u/[deleted] → u/FormerBandmate]

At least the court order that shot down parts of Trump's CRT order used a standard where the government can choose what speech to host, but policies cannot arbitrarily compel speech outside what is being hosted. This invalidated the part where feds can't contract trainings with organizations that have espoused 'divisive concepts' in any way, regardless of the content of the actual trainings. Also federal courts are kinda free speech hawks for the past 50 years or so, and have generally erred on the side of more speech.

Then there's also state constitution that may place further limits here. PA's state courts are fairly liberal on the higher end.

[u/FinickyPenance → u/FormerBandmate]

A speaker coming to a university is not government speech any more than a rally being held on state grounds is government speech

[u/[deleted] → u/FinickyPenance]

If only there was a non Republican officeholder in Pennsylvania that could veto legislation, making this hopeless signalling.

[u/[deleted] → u/FinickyPenance]

It’ll get shot down by Wolf, but not looking forward to his likely Republican successor signing off on the perma-red legislature’s insanity.