Wisconsin Republicans are very concerned that college students are exercising their free speech rights too much and thus are not being indoctrinated by conservative speech, so they want to take away the kids' constitutional right:
Republican lawmakers are advancing a bill for a fourth time that would punish Wisconsin universities and technical colleges for free speech violations.
The plan would allow legislators to rule on alleged violations that could result in campuses losing student grants, the state firing administrators and mandatory notices to prospective students that the school has violated free speech provisions in state law.
Republicans have long claimed campuses within the Universities of Wisconsin stifle free speech rights of conservative students and employees. Those accusations intensified in 2016 when conservative speaker Ben Shapiro was shouted down by protestors during a speech at UW-Madison a week after former President Donald Trump was elected.
GOP lawmakers took notice and began introducing bills reaffirming campus free speech rights that also created punishments for universities and students. One of those was resurrected and introduced for a fourth time this month by Wisconsin Assembly Colleges and Universities Committee Chair Rep. Dave Murphy, R-Greenville, and fellow committee member, Rep. Amanda Nedweski, R-Pleasant Prairie.
If passed, students who felt that their right of free speech was violated, they could sue the school. Also, if any court or legislative committee felt that the school was in the wrong, they could lose their grants meant to help poor and disadvantaged students.
So what's different this time than the last three times the Republicans tried this? Well, they are armed with a survey that says conservatives students feel their rights are being suppressed. But the survey itself is suspect when one looks who was behind it:
Funding for the survey came from the Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation, which was founded at UW-Stout in 2017 with a donation from the conservative Charles Koch Foundation. The center was named after the Menard family donated $2.4 million in 2019. The Menards own a chain of home improvement stores and are major GOP donors.
Why do I keep having images from the move 1984 where they are forcing the people to watch their propaganda 24/7?
