you are not allowed according to the
Michigan State University handbook on
employee relations you are not allowed
to use the word but to challenge any
speaker for any reason the word butt is
too confrontational and it is itself a
microaggression
I'm dr. Duke and this is Constitution
corner and every week unconstitution
corner we like to talk not so much about
the specifics of the Constitution that
will come up organically but talk about
real-world situations in this country of
ours where the Constitution is helpful
or forgotten or under assault and today
is no different
it is late its early September and
university campuses are beginning to
fill up in fact I start teaching at my
university this week as well and as the
kids turn back to the college campuses
going to call your attention to a grave
grave situation we have culturally with
regards to the cut the Constitution that
is the assault on the First Amendment in
other places I have talked about how
Hollywood and how journalists and how
progressive activists are all
undermining our First Amendment rights
by deeming some kinds of speech hate
speech byuk waiting speech with violence
and nowhere is that more prominent in
fact I would argue before Hollywood got
around doing it before anti-fun the
social justice left and got around to
doing it it started first in college
campuses and you need to be aware of
this mom and dad you need to be aware of
this citizen of the United States the
progressive left now is very
successfully not just suppressing speech
that they don't like turning speech into
violence arguing that if you say there
are two genders if you insist that
science incontrovertibly shows us that
there is male and female and nothing
else this now in many parts of the
country and men almost all your
university campuses this is can be
deemed a kind of hate speech to tell the
truth even if that truth is under
written by biology what the progressive
left on campus is doing is forcing kids
from the moment they set foot on campus
as freshmen to undergo these
indoctrinations these initiations they
call them where they learn about speech
and language there's one example of this
that's so absurd you won't even believe
it Michigan State University in their
handbook for faculty and staff speech
says quote do not use the word but the
conjunction bu T so if somebody is
talking to you and they're saying
something wrong or something clearly
demonstrably false or something that
doesn't make any
and you say yes but what about this that
now is triggering that's a
microaggression
you are not allowed according to the
Michigan State University handbook on
employee relations you are not allowed
to use the word but to challenge any
speaker for any reason the word butt is
too confrontational and it is itself a
microaggression
that's how insane this has gotten and if
your tendency is my tendency to laugh at
this you're driving in your car you're
sitting around the radio listening in
your shop the tendency is to want to
laugh at this but what you can't laugh
at is the fact that campus after campus
after campus is engaging in this sort of
behavior right now in America the
progressive left is rewriting language
it's altering pronoun usage it's forcing
younger generations to get rid of he and
she male and female
even a simple conjunction like the word
but now is problematic to the
progressive left and we the more we
allow it the more we allow it to do this
the more we allow progressives to change
language right under our noses the
easier it's going to be for them to get
rid of certain kinds of speech
altogether
so rather than conforming or just saying
well you can talk that way but I'm not
we have to become much more proactive we
must defend the language we must defend
the definition of words it is not racist
to tell a joke necessarily it is not
racist to ask somebody in the country
where in the world they came from
it is not racist or sexist to use he or
she to default to traditional male and
female pronouns it's not bigotry to
argue in favor of science the left likes
to call conservatives and Christians the
parties of anti science when in reality
something as simple as basic biology the
obvious dictates of biology are now
being deemed deemed hate speech on our
college campuses we have to do better we
have to in the same way we defend our
gun rights in the same the same way we
have organizations like the NRA the
National Rifle Association who can lobby
and engage in activism on our behalf
maybe we need an organization like the
NRA for speech used to be a hundred
years ago 50 years ago the ACLU back
when they used to care about American
civil liberties and not just liberal
progressive civil liberty civil
liberties perhaps what we need is an
organization like the NRA one to which
we subscribe become life members pay our
dues and the entire purpose of that
particular organization should be to
preserve language to allow to not allow
the left to be the only ones who get to
define words so we keep if we allow this
to happen keep allow to keep allowing
the left to rewrite words and our
response is to simply adapt and go along
with it pretty soon their words are
going to be matched by action and that
action is going to erase our freedoms
just as they're erasing our ability to
speak our ability to use certain words
we cannot acquiesce to the idea that gun
ownership equals violence and we
certainly cannot acquiesce to the idea
that some kind of speech has to be
banned to make progressives feel better
about themselves
