I am simply do not understand what “woke” means. Again, what is the diametric opposite of “woke”? Is it that all speech is allowed, and no speech can be deemed “offensive”? Is that place “not woke”?
There are many examples of speech that can be curtailed as a matter of federal and state law. Examples include deceptive advertising under consumer protection laws, securities laws under the '33 or '34 Acts (or comparable state securities laws) where full disclosure must be made and deceptive/misleading/manipulative statements are prohibited in the context of securities registration and required disclosures, oral agreements to fix prices, defamatory speech etc etc etc are restricted or prohibited.
Indeed, several CCers found this professor’s words “offensive”: Professor Barry Mehler suspended for lecture . Proponents of “free speech” should have no problems with what was said, would they not?
Surely, then, this nebulous concept of “wokeness” (and its opposite-I am extremely curious what an “unwoke” school is) does not rest with “free speech”? And since when does the US Constitution’s First Amendment provisions on “free speech” apply to a private college in North Carolina like Davidson?
What is “woke”? Perhaps if that definition is agreed upon, then the OP’s query can be properly answered in relation to Davidson?