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He Made a Joke About Land Acknowledgements. Then the Trouble Began.
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When Professor Stuart Reges exercised his free speech rights, the University of Washington retaliated. So we're suing the school.
By Greg Lukianoff and Joshua Bleisch
07.28.22 — Education
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Stuart Reges is no stranger to controversy. In the 1980s, he risked his career as a budding academic by writing about being openly gay. Then, as lecturer at Stanford in the 1990s, he bucked the status quo by protesting the war on drugs. (Bob Martinez, then the national drug czar, wrote a letter to Stanford urging the school to penalize him.) Reges once …

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Greg Lukianoff

President & CEO of FIRE, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind w/ Jon Haidt & The Canceling of the American Mind w/ Rikki Schlott

Joshua Bleisch

Faculty Legal Defense Fund Fellow and attorney representing Stuart Reges

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