Anyone that has ever watched a mafia movie is likely familiar with a protection racket. A bunch of neighborhood thugs extort money from local businesses by “convincing” the businesses, usually through violence or threats of violence, that the thugs will protect them from being harmed by other thugs. But it is clear to everyone that the only real threat posed to the businesses is the thugs themselves.
Public universities throughout the country are increasingly employing a similar scheme to shut down unpopular (i.e., conservative) speech on campus. We’ll call it the “speech protection racket.”
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