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Florida Republican student group sues university after suspension over Nazi salute post (www.theguardian.com)
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The University of Florida campus group says the suspension over an off-campus post violated free speech

A dispute among student Republican groups in Florida over alleged antisemitic behavior is heading for a courtroom after a chapter at the state’s flagship university was suspended for an online post featuring two people giving Nazi salutes.

On Saturday, University of Florida (UF) blocked campus operations of the school’s College Republicans after the group’s state leadership said it had disbanded the chapter for engaging in “a pattern of conduct that violated its rules and values, including a recent antisemitic gesture”.

The chapter responded Monday by filing a free speech lawsuit against UF leadership, arguing that the action violated the constitutional first amendment rights of a member engaging in an off-campus activity.

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 50 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

These Republicans are Nazis. Nazis have a basic plank of calling for the death of groups of people based upon race, ethnicity, birth defects, and even world views (Communists, Atheists).

The university has every right to protect the other students at the university from genocidal maniacs. It's not an issue of Tolerance. These Nazis broke the social contract of a pluralistic society so they're no longer protected by the contract.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 67 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You don't have a first amendment right to have a University of Florida chapter of the College Republicans. The University does have the right to dissolve clubs and organizations associated with the school if they are engaged in any conduct it deems inappropriate.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, taxpayer funded institutions shouldn't just be able to say any group they don't like is inappropriate and ban them with zero process and University students do have a first amendment right to assemble themselves

This Republican group should be banned because they're a discriminatory group of bigots who make the environment unsafe for other students and violate civil rights laws, but what this dipshit university (which let this nazi club carry on for years until they made headlines and is actually now just trying to make a new college Republicans chapter, which is a whole other 1st amendment violation) thinks is "appropriate" should have absolutely nothing to do with it

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

The moment a group in some disrupts the student experience for others, the university has a right to ban them.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh. Thats a can of worms... By that logic, no university which recieves taxpayer money should not have the right to regulate speech on campus, which given how student loans and grants function, means all of them.

But these universities are private entities not government bodies, even ones closely associated with states like this one here, and should be allowed to remove groups like this for a wide range of reasons.

(IANAL), they should just air on the side of the parodox of tolerance and then not trust Florida to stick to it as its appeales get judge shopped around until someone gives the shoe leather sommelier what they want.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

no university which recieves taxpayer money should not have the right

I think you probably mean

no university which receives taxpayer money should ~~not~~ have the right

or

~~no~~ every university which receives taxpayer money should not have the right

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Once we get grammar squared away, a social studies lesson on how laws like Title IX protections against sex discrimination have been enforced on colleges and universities for the last several decades is also in order

[–] homes@piefed.world 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Won’t someone rid me of all of these mettlesome Nazis?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You're thinking of "meddlesome", as in meddle (interfere). "Mettlesome" means being characterized by mettle (courage).

[–] warbosstodd@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago

Because of course they do.