"Senator Banks declared, "At least one student in the classroom was uncomfortable, and I'm sure there are more. This type of hateful rhetoric has no place in the classroom." He is wrong. Hateful rhetoric has every place in the classroom, and bans on all ideas deemed "hateful" by someone would require massive repression. The goal of a challenging university must be to make students uncomfortable at times."
"Act 202 only allows colleges to do two things in response to complaints: Provide the information to the trustees, and "refer" them "for consideration in employee reviews and other tenure and promotion decisions." It does not authorize censoring classes or removing teachers on the grounds of intellectual diversity. In fact, Act 202 specifically prohibits this action because it says that institutions cannot "Limit or restrict the academic freedom of faculty members"
Indiana University suspended Social Work professor Jessica Adams from teaching "Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice" after U.S. Senator Jim Banks complained that she showed a classroom chart identifying "Make America Great Again" as a slogan that can be used as covert white supremacy. Senator Banks said at least one student was uncomfortable and called the content hateful. Hateful rhetoric has a place in the classroom to challenge students, and bans on ideas deemed hateful would require massive repression. Act 202 permits colleges only to provide complaint information to trustees and to refer matters for consideration in employee reviews and tenure decisions, and it explicitly prohibits limiting faculty academic freedom. IU's suspension violates that prohibition.
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