After the ugly spectacle at Stanford Law School where students shouted down a federal judge who had been invited to speak, the law school’s dean promised to straighten out those unruly students with some “training” about the First Amendment.
Well, what happened?
As we read in this Washington Free Beacon article by Aaron Sibarium, almost nothing happened.
Not exactly nothing, mind you. The law school set up some videos on freedom of speech that students were expected to watch. But Stanford didn’t take this seriously, and neither did the students.
Sibarium writes:
The free speech program was much less demanding than the law school’s modules on Title IX and alcohol issues, which require students to answer questions demonstrating an understanding of school policy, according to people who’d completed both trainings. The contrast has shaken students’ faith in Stanford’s vaunted recommitment to freedom of speech, which, one said, appears to have been “nothing more than hollow virtue signaling.”
Imbuing respect for free speech in students obviously isn’t very important to the people running Stanford Law School.