How would the Constitution read if it was written by men more mindful of microaggressions and safe spaces than individual liberty?

Thankfully, we’ll never have to know. But the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) imagined it that way in a new video animation featuring cartoon renderings of the Founding Fathers wrestling with writing a non-offensive version of the Amendments.

As FIRE notes, college administrators write speech codes in order to prohibit speech deemed biased or disrespectful, including “inappropriately directed laughter.” Anyone wishing to engage in “questionable” speech is directed to designated “free speech zones,” as long as the content has been approved beforehand.

It’s also noted that the University of California System has deemed tropes such as “America is a melting pot” or “America is the land of opportunity” as microaggressions that shouldn’t be used, lest it trigger an innocent bystander’s feelings.

FIRE’s video, “What If Our Constitution Were Written Like Campus Speech Codes?,” is explained below:

This video illustrates our Founding Fathers deciding what speech should and should not be allowed in America—using the same logic administrators use when writing campus speech codes.

American universities are no longer marketplaces of ideas but designated “safe spaces” to protect from any thought contrary to progressive opinions. If an invited guest even leans a little to the right, they are disinvited. Most conservatives aren’t even invited at all.

It’s hard to imagine an America founded on these principles. Unfortunately, it’s the direction we’re headed and we better do something about it now before we lose our liberty forever.

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About The Author

Mark was a co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, and served as the national coordinator. He left the organization to work more broadly on expanding the self-governance movement beyond the partisan divide. Mark appears regularly on television in outlets as diverse as MSNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox Business and the BBC. He’s highly sought after for the tea party perspective from print and electronic media outlets, from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Examiner, Politico and the The Hill. Mark blogs at MarkMeckler.com, and his opinion editorials regularly run in many of the leading political newspapers both on and offline. Mark has a BA in English from San Diego State University and graduated with honors from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1988. He practiced real estate and business law for almost a decade. For the last eleven years of his legal career he specialized in Internet advertising law. When not fighting for the future of our nation, Mark is an avid horseman, and lives in rural northern California with his wife Patty and two children.

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