Tuesday, January 05, 2016

First Amendment doesn’t let you say ‘hateful things,’ Mizzou’s new vice chancellor says


The College Fix reports:
You’d think a law professor would know that the First Amendment, by its very nature, protects speech that is deeply unpopular.

But the interim vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity at the University of Missouri has apparently not brushed up on the Bill of Rights since he took his position this fall.

Paraphrasing Chuck Henson, “an experienced trial lawyer” who once ran a cable-TV giant’s legal department before taking the (interim) reins at Mizzou, The Economist says “the First Amendment does not give people a free pass to go round saying hateful things”
Should Comrade Henson have a law license?