[justin66]

How weirdly fragile and vindictive do you have to be to initiate a formal complaint against a guest lecturer for making an observation about public policy you think is off-base? How lame do you have to be to even know how to do that, and to do it so fast that the lecturer heard about it when she got home?

[stevenwoo]

The first year medical school student who started things is the daughter of a GOP state official, she didn't fall far from the tree despite wanting to be a doctor.

[blantonl]

This is equivalent to the daughter basically saying "do you know who my daddy is?"

Deplorable.

[stevenwoo]

Both her parents are doctors but both parents' made alot of money from for profit schools preying on veterans (NAU http://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/for_profit_report/Conte...) and that help pay for the campaigns to start her mothers political career so not a lot of self introspection being done in the family.

[bozhark]

Hypocrisy Oath

[wintogreen74]

So the same people who fight change they interpret as pushing "woke" culture also believe they have a right to never be exposed to criticism or negative comments against anything with which they identify?

[akira2501]

I don't think calls for "formal censure" and attacks on an individuals livelihood are the same as "criticism" or "negative comments." I think the effort to normalize the two being viewed negatively is entirely understandable.

[prh8]

Correct

[ddavis]

Dan Patrick is a terrible human being. Totally unsurprising behavior from him.

[ubermonkey]

That's A&M for ya, tho.

[0xBDB]

Parent got downvoted but speaking as an Aggie it's not totally wrong. This is hardly the university's first free speech controversy and doesn't seem likely to be the last. It's a bipartisan mess too - Chancellor John Sharp is a prominent Democrat.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/11/texas-am-battalion-n...