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Because apparently at a liberal arts college you are not allowed to “disparage” or “mock” (except if you are only mocking the folks they want you to mock)…

Via WFB:

Three students have filed a lawsuit against Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, claiming their First Amendment rights were violated when flyers they made promoting their student club were censored by school officials.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is assisting with the lawsuit, which was filed this week against the university. Dixie State disapproved of promotional flyers by the student group Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), which negatively portrayed Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.

The flyers were not approved because the school policy does not permit students to “disparage” or “mock individuals.”

Three students from YAL—William Jergins, Joey Gillespie, and Forrest Gee—are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, and the eight defendants are school officials including the president of Dixie and the Dean of Students.

Jergins, the president of YAL, told the Washington Free Beacon by email he was “extremely taken back by the denial of the posters,” and he “never expected that posting a flyer that was critical of Che Guevara, an internationally recognized war criminal and mass murderer, would be a problem.”

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