THE UTD MERCURY

Tag: Free speech

  • Free speech policies under fire

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    UTD’s campus policies may be limiting free speech among students and faculty, according to a watchdog organization. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education examines free speech policies at public and private universities nationwide, then rates those policies on scale from least to most restrictive. The organization currently has policies from over 450 institutions, and…

  • Liberal ideology hypocritical about free speech

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    In the political sphere, the term “regressivism” is ambiguous. Yet, one meaning can be derived after realizing that acting hypocritically about freedom of expression is regression. In this sense regressivism is the advocacy of social or liberal hypocrisy. Across the political spectrum, too many of us are seduced by regressive tendencies to gain political triumph…