OpEd: 'Students don’t need another lecture on free speech from a conservative with a huge national platform.'
that produce and reproduce existing social injustices. Stephens’s invitation is a reminder that those who are loudest about protecting free speech — and who use free speech to share bigoted views — are often the ones whose voices are uplifted and protected. Meanwhile, those who are already among the most marginalized members of society, those who speak up for their very lives and right to exist,.
At UChicago, we see the disproportionate stakes of free speech not just during convocation weekend , but every day on campus. My school’s free speech principles may protect hateful ideas in the name of “intellectual inquiry,” but they do little to shield faculty members who are subject to right-wing harassment campaigns or students of color who protest classes they deem harmful.
Take the example of two recent controversial classes: This year's winter quarter was marked by the indelible absence of one course and the presence of another. Before classes even began, an undergraduate student called on the public to contact cultural anthropologist Rebecca Journey about the supposed “anti-white hatred” in her planned course, “The Problem of Whiteness.
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