Rochester, MN school board creates a new category of protected speech, immune from challenge
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And school children cheer
The Rochester Public Schools board voted unanimously Tuesday evening to make several phrases and images, including “Black Lives Matter,” government speech, meaning the school can’t be held liable for allowing those views while not allowing opposing views.
(John Hinderaker): “Got that? Dissent from the ‘Black Lives Matter” orthodoxy will not be permitted. The government says so. Several other phrases have been declared ‘government speech’ as well:
[I]n Rochester schools, speech concerning “Brown lives matter,” “Indigenous lives matter, “Stop Asian hate”, as well as the pride flag, are now all declared official government speech.
(Hinderaker again); “I have to say that the concept of “government speech” is a new one on me. It is quite a few years now since I studied the First Amendment, but the idea of declaring an idea to be “government speech” so as to prohibit anything counter to it seems a bit sinister.
(CF) Just a few years ago, I’d have said this kind of suppression of speech would have been tossed out by the courts on the first round; today, I'm not so sure, and within five years or so, I’ll be proved wrong. This what comes when you teach three generations to hate and despise their country and traditions and constitution, which was, of course
