cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30989415
Texas lawmakers trying to muzzle campus protests have just passed one of the most ridiculous anti-speech laws in the country. If signed by Gov. Greg Abbott, Senate Bill 2972 would ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at public universities in the state.
Ironically, the bill builds on a previous law passed in 2019 meant to enshrine free speech on Texas campuses. But now, lawmakers want to crack down on college students’ pro-Palestinian protests so badly that they literally passed a prohibition on talking.
Free speech hours, what the actual fuck? Are the GOP alien lizards that need quiet time at night?
the zodiac killer, Reptilian cruz needs to shed his skin somehow, abbot lost his hamanity with his lower half.
If and when you’re allowed to speak, you may speak freely. It’s just that you’re not allowed to speak. Rather than limiting ‘freedom of speech’ it’s limiting ‘speech’. So that’s alright.
/s
It’ll take more than old Ironsides can muster to shut me up.
That ASL Elective is about to fill up.
Sign language is still speech.
To bypass subscription requirement
Thanks, adding to OP 🫶
zionism is just flatly incompatible with American free speech. There will be a backlash to this overreach and I wouldnt want to be a zionist when it happens.
Do not worry friends. The Great Republic of Texzanistahn will soon realize their folly and once again make it legal for men to talk on college campuses at night.
The Republic of Gilead, you mean
I guarantee you, they’ll try to rename it to that, just for shits and giggles or something
Republican Free Speech™*
*terms and conditions apply
Sounds like it violates a couple of amendments, there.
Like 50 or so it seems
so along with a bunch of other things that they’re trying to do, then. business as usual. and nobody stopping them.
This would not have flied in the catholic college I attended for two years. Heck it would have reduced academic performance. A whole lot of group study happens after 10pm. Some folks I know its the only time they studied snoozing through out the day between classes.
Wait till they realize facial expressions are in fact expressions.
“You’re suspended”Why?
“I saw a look on your face via the security footage when you were running to the bathroom trying not to piss yourself.”
Y’all are speedrunning that antifreedom thing eh?
deleted by creator
Reminder that while the Texas Revolution may have been a diverse coalition of of Mexicans, Irishmen, and Native Americans the people in charge today are the descendants (both literally or ideologically) of the white settlers who were angry Mexico outlawed slavery.
thats why they had the southern baptist, and they still “segregate” race in the south, additionally golf clubs/country clubs, are notorious for that same thing too. one of my english prof in CC college, said he dated a girl who was part of this “high society” club and they had “servents” from Africa serving the country club members, whom were all very pale skin people.
texas already beat the rest the usa by a decade already. they are a template of russia’s governance.
We would do well to remember that for every democracy that has fallen (and there have been a lot) they had a large segment of the population feverishly supporting the dictators as they burned down the centers of education and the constitutions that ran contrary to the regime’s plans.
They are attempting this kind of overreach because there are people are supporting it. We have to fight these people.
Not with violence or weapons just yet, but with community action and spending our money more wisely. Get involved in your neighborhoods and city management meetings, get social even if you hate people, suck it up and hold some yard sales and bake sales, whatever else gets you talking to people in your immediate area. Start getting to know who your elected officials are and mount organized pressure on them to resist this fascist takeover.
We kick the base out from under this thing and it falls out. Stop fighting stupid, get off the internet, get off Lemmy where you get all your satisfaction looking at memes or fighting with other leftists. Stop buying new games and drugs and alcohol and doordash, hoard your money so the liches don’t get it. Now IS the time.
Not even developing countries have such bullshit campus “laws”, WTF is this shit?
It’s called a fascist dictatorship. I don’t think people realize that we’re deep in this now. It’s no longer nascent, “Ur-Fascism” as Eco described. This is full-on.
It’s terrifying how many people appear to not be aware that this is even happening.
It’s worse how many people act like they care and then go on to say “nothing ever happens” and “I ain’t readin all that” when it comes time to learn what the problem is and what can be done.
We need a very large EMP blast to disable people’s phones and computers. We are responding to the atomization and destruction of society by atomizing ourselves further and withdrawing even further from community and social action.
texas, combining russia, and the taliban in one state.
Freedom!
Update: This article was published on June 5. Since then, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 2972 into law. It will take effect Sept. 1.
Wow. So they actually went through with the lunacy 🤦
Yeah, I saw it on the update they put in the post when I pulled it up on archive to get passed the subscription requirement. It’s crazy that anyone could think a law like that should pass anywhere.
Crazy is the word, yeah. If anybody tells you that zionism and MAGA aren’t cults, you can point to this as a stellar example of how the programming has melted away any resemblance of sanity.
10 p.m. to 8 a.m seems like a terrible time to protest
Unless…
