s/pmarcaCAMPUS SPEECH•Apr 22
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UCLA Law protest targeting DHS counsel Percival revives Stanford-style speech fight
A protest outside an 11:30 a.m. UCLA Law event targeting DHS General Counsel James H. Percival turned into another flashpoint over whether schools actually enforce their own speech rules. The comparison to Stanford's Kyle Duncan disruption came almost immediately, framing this as the same pattern repeating at another elite law school.
What changed is how fast it jumped from one incident to a broader claim: once a campus becomes ideologically one-sided, free speech stops being a norm and starts being treated as a threat. That argument is now doing most of the work, with the UCLA episode serving as fresh evidence in a debate that never really cooled off.
What changed is how fast it jumped from one incident to a broader claim: once a campus becomes ideologically one-sided, free speech stops being a norm and starts being treated as a threat. That argument is now doing most of the work, with the UCLA episode serving as fresh evidence in a debate that never really cooled off.
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Apr 21
Protest organizers called for a picket outside UCLA Law opposing a Federalist Society event with DHS General Counsel James H. Percival.
Apr 22
Commentary began framing the UCLA Law incident as another example of illiberal campus speech restrictions.
Apr 22
Greg Lukianoff tied the UCLA episode to a broader argument that ideologically one-sided universities come to see free speech as a threat.
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