@Hunt "The college, as an arm of the state, can’t limit speech unless it fits in one of the narrow exceptions recognized under the First Amendment. “Ensuring a non-threatening environment” isn’t one of the exceptions. (Note: a private college could take more steps to limit speech.)
I’m not saying that all federal courts would agree with me, but that’s my interpretation of the law. As always, people love free speech until they encounter some speech they really don’t like, and then they look for creative ways to argue that it isn’t protected. Sometimes they succeed."
Well, clearly a school has to have the ability to regulate speech to some degree. I can’t believe that cheating on a test is a protected free speech right at a public university.
What troubles me is that many people give this a pass because it is about women. If it were about African Americans, Muslims, Jews, homosexuals, or Christians it would not be so funny to many of those same people. If the school did nothing, and a freshman were raped there today, everyone would say that the school should have done something. Again, if the KKK club put up a African American, Jew, Muslim, and homosexual drop off, I am wondering whether people’s views would be the same, or if somehow women deserve a little less protection.
I agree that legally, the students can’t be prosecuted. However, on a college campus, I think that the students who are not able to refrain from making threatening statements toward other groups of students may need to be removed so that everyone else can focus on getting an education.