TX bill barring college professors from "compelling" students to adopt certain political beliefs

[LetMyPeopleVote]

No true Texan can sleep soundly while the Texas legislature is in session. This bill is nuts. No professor could get me to change my political beliefs

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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/11/texas-legislature-higher-education-political-bill/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1681262700&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

The Texas Senate has given preliminary approval to a bill that would prohibit a college or university professor from “compelling” a student to adopt certain political beliefs, a proposal belonging to a slew of legislation introduced this session that university leaders and faculty worry will restrict academic freedom in the classroom.

Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, told lawmakers on the Senate floor Tuesday he believed that universities are places where students are exposed to different ideas to develop their own critical thinking skills and that his bill would not censor the discussion of any topics in the college classroom.

“What we are not for is when professors attempt to compel a student to adopt a certain belief, require adherence to a professor’s viewpoint, to a certain viewpoint. That’s another matter entirely. That’s what this bill is about,” Hughes said.

Senate Bill 16 would bar university professors from compelling students “to adopt a belief that any race, sex, or ethnicity or social, political, or religious belief is inherently superior to any other race, sex, ethnicity, or belief.”

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Best thing for conservatives would be to embrace liberal education.

Then, conservatives can be exposed to all ideas. Why don't they understand this?

[czarjak]

2. We don't need no...

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. ugh

[viva la]

4. So the students at the business schools...

Won't be indoctrinated in the "free market" ideology?

That is at least as common as Marxism in the sociology classes.

[Javaman]

5. oh asshole abbott, this cuts both ways. what a moron. nt

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Lunacy.

If the 'conservative' student is censoring himself/herself, then what is the issue about needing 'protection'? Or is it that you want 'protection' (i.e.: legal/official retaliatory/arrest protection) so that you can say whatever you want without fear of reprisals or just getting your racist/homophobic/evangelical minded teeth knocked out when you blurt that shit out in public?

I am going with the latter.

[Martin68]

7. The problem is that MAGAts apply political beliefs to history, science, social studies, literature -

indeed, every subject without regard for facts.