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This looks like the campus tempest du jour. And it starts with talk about microaggression, something I have expertise on (I wrote a whole book). So here is a thread. https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1379866519572742151">https://twitter.com/robbysoav...
First, let’s look at the student’s questions (at a campus panel on microaggression in 2018). This clip is from the court document linked in Soave’s article: https://casetext.com/case/bhat..." title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">First, let’s look at the student’s questions (at a campus panel on microaggression in 2018). This clip is from the court document linked in Soave’s article: https://casetext.com/case/bhat..." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
But it’s shoddy journalism. Soave evidently relied solely on the student’s account of events. Even the court document must take the student’s claims at face value (due to how a motion to dismiss works). Soave seems not to have talked to anyone else." title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">But it’s shoddy journalism. Soave evidently relied solely on the student’s account of events. Even the court document must take the student’s claims at face value (due to how a motion to dismiss works). Soave seems not to have talked to anyone else." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
For what it’s worth, the university’s legal filing contains some really unwise claims – see clip below. Perhaps this is referring to something else the student said? If it’s about his comments at the event, it’s deeply wrong. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov..." title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">For what it’s worth, the university’s legal filing contains some really unwise claims – see clip below. Perhaps this is referring to something else the student said? If it’s about his comments at the event, it’s deeply wrong. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov..." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
More from the school’s filing. I think these sentences accurately describe the student’s poor behavior. But they are NOT sufficient to amount to “offensive” speech for First Amendment purposes. That’s a scary overstep by the university." title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">More from the school’s filing. I think these sentences accurately describe the student’s poor behavior. But they are NOT sufficient to amount to “offensive” speech for First Amendment purposes. That’s a scary overstep by the university." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Read between the lines and you see the university believes there’s more to the story. What? It doesn’t say, not yet. There might be good student privacy reasons not to reveal whatever else troubled the disciplinary panel." title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">Read between the lines and you see the university believes there’s more to the story. What? It doesn’t say, not yet. There might be good student privacy reasons not to reveal whatever else troubled the disciplinary panel." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Consider this clip from the court decision. The student repeatedly made a false statement (by his own later admission) to the disciplinary panel. Soave doesn’t mention that in his reporting, though it seems relevant to a neutral assessment." title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">Consider this clip from the court decision. The student repeatedly made a false statement (by his own later admission) to the disciplinary panel. Soave doesn’t mention that in his reporting, though it seems relevant to a neutral assessment." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
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