在这个数字时代，发表在社交媒体上的帖子可以以极快的速度在互联网上传播，影响力很大。此时美国大学对那些在网上发布种族主义言论的学生态度很坚决：你在这里（大学）不再受欢迎了。据调查，至少有十几所美国高校撤销了新生入学申请。佛罗里达大学美国诉奥布莱恩案第一修正案负责人Clay Calvert 解释说：虽然私立学校不受第一修正案中言论自由的约束，但公立大学作为政府机构，必须要对发表种族主义或性别歧视性语言的学生有所约束。公立大学撤销一个发表过不当言论的新生的录取通知书要比实际开除一个在校生要容易得多。 比如，最近康奈尔大学招收的一名明星高中运动员（star high player）因为发表过的种族歧视视频在网上迅速扩撒，将不能在该校继续就读。 马奎特大学也撤回了一名新生的入学申请，因为他发表过一篇讽刺乔治·弗洛伊德之死的帖子。还有一名即将进入佛罗里达大学的优等生因为被校方得知其Instagram上宣称过自己是一名“绝对”种族主义者后，受到影响而不得不再考虑申请其它的大学。
In this digital age, when social media posts can ricochet across the internet at furious speed, the message from those universities to the students caught posting racist sentiments online has been uncompromising: You are no longer welcome here. “A public university is going to have an easier time rescinding an offer of admission than actually expelling a student who is taking classes and says something offensive,” he said. While private schools are not bound by the First Amendment and its protection of speech, public universities, as government institutions, must contend with the potential legal consequences of penalizing students for racist or sexist language, said Clay Calvert, the director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida.“A public university is going to have an easier time rescinding an offer of admission than actually expelling a student who is taking classes and says something offensive,” he said. A star high school athlete recruited to play football for Cornell University will no longer be attending the school after a Snapchat video of him using a racial slur went viral. Marquette University revoked an incoming freshman’s admission offer because of a Snapchat post mocking the death of George Floyd. And an honors student bound for the University of Florida now has to make other college plans after the university learned of an Instagram post in which the student declared she was “most definitely” a racist. source
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