As Americans, we take our free speech for granted. But that’s a luxury we can no longer afford.
Unlike the Europeans and their sweeping hate speech laws, Americans have the First Amendment to protect us from the speech police. The rise of wokeness shook the bedrock of that constitutional right, and with Democrats’ full-throated embrace of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion dogma, we assumed the threat to speech would only ever come from the left. But despite years of posturing against leftist speech codes, it now appears that Republicans are the first to mount a frontal legislative assault on the First Amendment.
The Republican-sponsored Antisemitism Awareness Act was approved Wednesday in the House of Representatives on a 320-91 vote, which included a majority (133) of Democrats and only 21 Republican defectors, the Washington Post reported. The bill would create a “clear definition” of antisemitism, which the Department of Education could then use to cut funding for universities found in violation.
