Pushback: Court rules against college’s attempt to censor students – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

Bring a gun to a knife fight: A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against Clovis Community College in California, ruling that it violated the free speech rights of its students when college officials removed posters put up by students from the college’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter that condemned communism and socialism.

The lawsuit [pdf] was filed for the students by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

The college insists that it reserves the right to remove flyers over “inappropriate or [offensive] language or themes.” The lack of any definition for those vague terms would weigh heavily with the court in granting the preliminary injunction.

FIRE produced emails showing that a college administrator offered to “gladly take down” the flyers after “several people” said that they were “very uncomfortable” with the flyers, including a person who allegedly threatened a “harassment claim” if the posters were not taken down.

The poster above is one example. Nothing in it is false. In fact, it bluntly states the truth about every leftist movement in the past hundred years: each led to genocide and the mass murder of millions. I am thus not surprised the leftists at Clovis found these facts “very uncomfortable” to see, which is why they did what leftists always do, attempt to censor speech they did not like….