A professor from the University of Kansas said that men who won’t vote for Kamala Harris should be lined up and shot. The university put him on leave after the video was released online.
Free speech advocacy group FIRE says that they are looking into whether or not this was a violation of the professor’s First Amendment rights.
“The First Amendment protects jokes – including brief, off-topic ones,” the group said.
Is this a tricky case or clear cut? Humor is a civil right but was this humor? Alternatively, can the university have standards of decorum that prevent humor about violence? That sounds like a good idea in theory but it would be a slippery slope. After all, if you stand for free speech, you have to stand for speech you don’t like. What do you think?
