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A FEDERAL COURT has UNLEASHED a DANGEROUS precedent, siding with a professor who launched a BRUTAL ATTACK on sacred Native American traditions. The University of Washington has been found GUILTY of violating the First Amendment after it DARED to investigate a professor for mocking a land acknowledgment—a move critics say opens the floodgates for HATEFUL rhetoric in classrooms nationwide.
Professor Stuart Reges, in a move branded by activists as a calculated act of ETHNIC ERASURE, inserted a shocking parody into his syllabus, weaponizing colonialist philosophy to argue Native tribes own “almost none” of their ancestral lands. This wasn’t academic debate; it was a DECLARATION OF WAR on woke culture, and the university fought back. They investigated him, created a “shadow” course to rescue students from his toxic views, and threatened his job.
But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has now REWARDED this hostility. In a chilling 2-1 decision, the court declared Reges’s vicious parody “protected academic speech,” effectively giving professors a GREEN LIGHT to use their syllabi as platforms for bigotry disguised as intellectual dissent. The court BLINDLY dismissed student discomfort as irrelevant, prioritizing provocative speech over a university’s duty to protect its community from harm.
“This is a resounding victory for free speech,” crowed a lawyer for the professor, as the legal framework that allows institutions to foster respectful environments CRUMBLES. The University of Washington, reeling from the decision, weakly stated it was “considering next steps” while insisting it has a “responsibility to protect our students.”
This ruling is a SIREN CALL to every agitator on campus: your right to mock and offend is now IRONCLAD, while the rights of students to learn free from targeted derision have been SACRIFICED on the altar of absolute speech. The very soul of academia has been sold. If a professor can wage a philosophical war on historical justice without consequence, what sacred truth is safe from mockery tomorrow?
