Campbell University Accused Of Discrimination For Removing Charlie Kirk Fliers

Obviously, since it regards Charlie Kirk and a Conservative student, the Raleigh News and Observer fails to editorialize in the article in favor of free speech

From the link, with a story that is going to go exactly how you think

Last semester, a day after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a Campbell University Law School student hung images of Kirk and his family around Raleigh campus buildings. The flyers displayed the message, “End Political Violence.”

The school promptly took the posters down — and sent the law student a disciplinary warning.

The student, Justin Booker, said taking his flyers down while leaving others up in the same areas amounts to viewpoint discrimination in violation of his rights to free expression.

Originally, the assistant dean of student life, Regina Chavis, told Booker the school didn’t allow the posting of personal messages, he said. But Booker couldn’t find this provision in the school’s student handbook, he said.

“I filed a formal complaint with the administration about this, because not only is this a free speech issue, it actually risks the law school’s accreditation,” Booker, 24, told The N&O. He contends Campbell violated its own free speech policy and that of the American Bar Association, or ABA.

He filed all sorts of appeals with the school, who, being run by liberals, denied them, so, he reached out to Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

“It’s particularly noteworthy that other political content was allowed to stay posted, as was other commercial content,” said FIRE program officer Dominic Colletti, who wrote the letter to Campbell. “It’s really hard to come up with a policy based explanation for this, other than they did not like the image of Charlie Kirk. That is the most likely explanation here and they haven’t given us another.”

Booker said letters notifying students about Black History Month and celebrating figures from Black and Hispanic civil rights movements are allowed to stay up, while his was taken down. The FIRE letter asks Campbell to consider whether it would’ve sanctioned the removal of flyers about voting rights or vaccination.

“For law schools, part of their job is to teach the First Amendment and the free speech rights that we as a country imbue our citizens,” Colletti continued. “There’s some irony to the university punishing that same kind of free expression.”

Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought would happen. That there would be all sorts of left wing flier up which the school never removed. Here’s the bigger issue

Because Booker was the subject of a disciplinary warning on this issue, he’ll have to disclose that on every bar application he ever submits.

“All I really want from this is for the people who did the wrong thing to admit they did wrong, promise they won’t do it again to me or anyone else, and apologize,” Booker said. “Instead, I have been brushed off, ignored, disrespected, and censored. No due process, no transparency, and no one actually willing to address my concerns.

I suspect if the school doesn’t address this within a week as requested and remove the disciplinary warning there will be a lawsuit filed. And Campbell will have to show that they have give the same type of official warnings for people putting up fliers on a first “offense”. Democrats love Free Speech, as long as the speech complies with Democrat beliefs.