School Board declares BLM slogan privileged ‘official government speech,’ so there’s no dissent allowed

[Elizabeth Theus]

Minnesota’s Rochester Public Schools Board voted unanimously to designate Black Lives Matter messages as privileged “official government speech” to allegedly provide them legal cover.

The resolution allowing certain slogans to be deemed “uniquely privileged” may be seen as protecting the state’s public school system from liability as it allows certain speech, while simultaneously not allowing other First Amendment-protected speech with dissenting opinions, according to KAAL-TV.

“[By] adopting the messages that you’re adopting as government speech, you’re saying these are the messages that we’re communicating as a school district, and by doing that, we’re not also creating a forum to allow other types of speech to enter the forum,” John Edison, the school board’s attorney, stated in a virtual meeting.


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[Elizabeth Theus]

WTH?  Since when do school boards get to declare what is considered "official government speech"???

[HawkTheSlayer]

Complete and utter bullshit!

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