Subject: Re: Honoring Kirk's support for free speech
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.