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Texas Governor Greg Abbott shared a post on X saying the Texas Tech student "definitely picked the wrong school to taunt the death of Charlie Kirk."

Texas Tech Board of Regents Chairman Cody Campbell reposted the governor’s statement and said, "We are proud of our values and are not afraid to stand up for them."

I wonder if it might be time to update the classic poem, in the context of campus free speech:

First they came for the Racists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Racist Then they came for the Misogynists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Misogynists Then they came for the homophobes And I did not speak out Because I was not a homophobes Then they came for the transphobes And I did not speak out Because I was not a transphobes Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

Progressives spent a lot of time building up an intellectual framework that allowed them to justify a very illiberal approach to speech on campus. Speech = violence, hateful speech serves as a barrier to educational opportunity, etc. Now that this framework is going to be turned against progressive ideas, it's not going to be pleasant.

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