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FIRE Hot Topics page offers primers on today’s biggest campus rights issues
Curious about some of the hot-button issues related to campus free speech and due process but don’t know where to start?
FIRE’s Hot Topics page is here to get you up to speed, featuring backgrounders on a number of FIRE-related topics. Now on our site, you can find short primers on:
- Microaggressions
- Free Speech Zones
- Due Process
- Sexual Harassment
- Hate Speech
- Title IX
- Affirmative Consent
So if you need a link to send that Facebook commenter who insists there’s a hate speech exception to the First Amendment (there isn’t), or if you’re wondering whether you can legally protest outside your public campus’ “Free Speech Zone” (you can), then head over to FIRE’s Hot Topics page today to learn more.
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VICTORY: Court vindicates professor investigated for parodying university’s ‘land acknowledgment’ on syllabus
Ninth Circuit rules UW violated the First Amendment by punishing a professor for putting a satirical land acknowledgment on his syllabus.
Can the government ban controversial public holiday displays?
If the government invites holiday displays, it can’t ban the ones it dislikes. Open the forum, lose the veto — even for Satanic statues.
DOJ plan to target ‘domestic terrorists’ risks chilling speech
DOJ plans to target “domestic terrorists” blur crime and ideology, revive McCarthy-era tactics, and risk chilling protected political speech.
‘Let them sue’: Iowa lawmakers scoffed at First Amendment in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting, records show
Iowa lawmakers urged ISU to punish speech about Charlie Kirk’s killing, shrugging off lawsuits and betting taxpayer money against the First Amendment.