{"id":1360083,"date":"2022-03-05T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1360083"},"modified":"2022-03-05T14:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T19:22:41","slug":"a-professor-wrote-an-article-the-caused-a-controversy-then-his-university-destroyed-its-free-speech-rule-while-attacking-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-professor-wrote-an-article-the-caused-a-controversy-then-his-university-destroyed-its-free-speech-rule-while-attacking-him\/","title":{"rendered":"A Professor Wrote An Article The Caused A Controversy. Then His University Destroyed Its Free Speech Rule While Attacking Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-professor-wrote-an-article-the-caused-a-controversy-then-his-university-destroyed-its-free-speech-rule-while-attacking-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1360083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-178485797.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Princeton University initially defended a professor\u2019s controversial article before attacking him behind the scenes for more than a year; destroying the school\u2019s free speech rule in the process.<\/p>\n<p>As Edward Yingling and Stuart Taylor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/03\/05\/how_princeton_eviscerated_its_free_speech_rule_and_covered_it_up_147290.html\">wrote<\/a> at RealClearPolitics, Princeton professor Joshua Katz was the one behind the controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/07\/08\/a-declaration-of-independence-by-a-princeton-professor\/\">article<\/a> published in 2020, which heavily criticized demands declared in a Princeton <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfPmfeDKBi25_7rUTKkhZ3cyMICQicp05ReVaeBpEdYUCkyIA\/viewform\">Faculty Letter<\/a> that included things like providing benefits to junior professors of color based solely on their skin color. Katz called Princeton\u2019s Black Justice League \u201ca small local terrorist organization that made life miserable for the many (including the many black students) who did not agree with its members\u2019 demands.\u201d Katz systematically broke down numerous other demands in the letter, including one that create a \u201cstar chamber\u201d capable of punishing people for behaviors deemed inappropriate by a committee beholden to current campus race dogma.<\/p>\n<p>For this article, Katz was condemned on campus, but Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber publicly stated that, while he disagreed with the language, the article was protected free speech. But as Yingling and Taylor point out, Princeton \u201chas for over a year viciously attacked Professor Katz as a racist on its website and elsewhere for the exact same language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attacks resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2021\/10\/27\/8_at_princeton_assail_false_portrayal_of_prof_as_racist_146631.html\">formal complaint<\/a> filed by eight Princeton professors, but the university responded with a ruling that declared a \u201cwidely disseminated presentation smearing Katz was not an \u2018official University document\u2019 despite overwhelming public evidence that it is,\u201d Yingling and Taylor reported.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation Yingling and Taylor referred to was titled \u201cTo Be Known and Heard: Systemic Racism and Princeton University\u201d and specifically attacked Katz as a racist for his article, leaving out a key phrase from his article in order to brand him a racist. The presentation was sponsored by 10 Princeton departments and offices and was announced to the entire university community. It is also available on the school\u2019s official website and has been used in freshmen orientation seminars.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling also falsely interpreted Princeton\u2019s free speech rule, claiming it did <em>not<\/em> apply to Katz\u2019s article even though the university president previously said it did.<\/p>\n<p>Princeton\u2019s free speech rule reads: \u201cBecause the University is committed to free and open inquiry in all matters, it guarantees all members of the University community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn,\u201d but the ruling made clear that this only applies to speech with which liberals agree. The school used a definition of \u201charassment\u201d from a different rule and misapplied it to the free speech rule in order to justify the treatment of Katz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, under their deliberate misinterpretation, the free speech rule will no longer protect the vast majority of other statements by students and faculty that are clearly protected by its language and intent,\u201d Yingling and Taylor wrote. \u201cIndeed, this misinterpretation will carve the heart out of Princeton\u2019s free speech rule. When the lead author of the complaint sought to appeal the ruling to President Eisgruber, he referred the appeal to Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett. Jarrett confirmed the ruling without noting that it effectively negates the free speech rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two leading national free speech organizations also called out Princeton\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Poliakoff, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), sent a letter to the board of trustees saying the ruling \u201cputs Princeton itself in the position of violating its own rules by severely harassing a member of the academic community whose speech the president declared to be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robert Shibley, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), also released a statement, saying: \u201cPrinceton\u2019s absurd labeling of its slickly produced website insulting Professor Katz \u2013 created at the behest of and sponsored by a half-dozen administrative offices, with its own subdomain on Princeton\u2019s site \u2013 as not an \u2018official University document\u2019 shows that its pronouncements simply cannot be trusted. Faculty, students, and alumni should avoid putting much stock in Princeton\u2019s promises of free speech or of anything else as long as the university leadership is so obviously and blatantly willing to put politics over principle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton University initially defended a professor\u2019s controversial article before attacking him behind the scenes for more than a year; destroying the school\u2019s free speech rule in the process.As Edward Yingling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}