CAN Endorses Columbia University’s Academic Freedom Week
Columbia University College Republicans’ broadest possible understanding of free speech has been used to corner the University into welcoming fascists and white-nationalists into academic space, as if such political stances were not themselves instances of violence inflicted on the academic community at Columbia and the community surrounding it. The Campus Antifascist Network has been a strong advocate for scholars and students under threat by the alt-right. It has released a statement of support for Dartmouth scholar Mark Bray when he…