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by 2OEH8eoCRo 3308 days ago
Sure they're private so they aren't bound by law to allow freedom of speech but they still send a bad message by suppressing it.
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Free Speech isn't "Consequence-Free Speech" and is a two way street. Sure, feel free to say/write the most despicable, racist thing imaginable. However, what is often forgotten is that there are consequences for everything that happens. As long as the government isn't restricting you from or putting you in jail or saying/writing it, the speech is free.
Well then maybe Harvard should lose its billions of dollars in government funding.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

And the consequence for not supporting freedom of thought should be that the government takes away its billions of dollars from you.