University of Virginia faculty slams its student newspaper after it demanded former VP Mike Pence be banned from speaking on its campus next week

Faculty members at the University of Virginia slammed its student newspaper on Tuesday for failing to understand the principles of free speech after it called for former Vice President Mike Pence not to be allowed to speak on campus.

Pence is scheduled to appear next Tuesday.

But the editorial board  of The Cavalier Daily triggered a furore by last month calling for his invitation to be rescinded on the grounds that 'hateful rhetoric is violent.'

Now, members of faculty have weighed in by saying it was simply wrong to say that a speech could threaten the wellbeing of students.

'This speech-is-violence argument is not only wrong — no calls for violence will be issued April 12 — but also contradicts the letter and the spirit of the First Amendment, which generally creates space for a wide range of views to be expressed so long as the relevant speech does not incite violence,' said the letter signed by 17 senior members of staff.

'It is also a disservice to those who are the victims of actual physical violence — whether those injured and killed during the many civil rights struggles in American history, those who fought and died for our constitutional rights as members of our armed services or the brave people of Ukraine who are fighting and dying for their freedoms, including free speech.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10689361/UVA-faculty-slams-student-newspaper-demanded-former-VP-Mike-Pence-banned.html

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