Recently, an untenured English instructor named Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams took great offense in response to a series of pro-Trump “chalkings” on the sidewalks outside of UNC-Wilmington’s Morton Hall. Rather than simply respecting the speech of her political opponents she decided to censor it by pouring water on the messages with which she disagreed. Predictably, she then tried to justify the viewpoint-based censorship in the name of adherence to the UNCW Seahawk Respect Compact.
Fortunately, some College Republicans (CRs) as well as some people working with the Leadership Institute (LI) gave me a heads up about what the instructor had done. Later, I was able to access Abrams’ Facebook page and get twenty screenshots proving she had suppressed the constitutionally protected speech of members of a registered student organization. In fact, she bragged about it publicly by saying, “I just erased the last of them.” She went on to admit the extent of her lawlessness by adding, “There were so many!”
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