By noon on Wednesday, less than a day after I posted the screenshot, hundreds of thousands of people had seen my tweet. Many of them added to the thread and voiced their opinion. So it was somewhat curious to watch, live in my Twitter mentions, as most of those people seemed to miss the point entirely.
The central theme of the debate became: What was the intent of the original email? Did the SGA officer want to have a chilling effect on campus free speech? Was the second email really a clarification? Or was it a backpedal on the part of SGA after they were caught red-handed and embarrassed on social media?
For what it’s worth, no part of me believes the intention of the first message was innocent. At worst, it was an intentional act to prevent students from booing the President. At best, it was a reckless directive, completely ignorant of how the majority of U of A’s 40,000 students would perceive it. It’s not clear how manyvetted the letter before it was delivered, but the story isn’t what the email meant. It was that it was ever sent at all.
As much as the President and traditional media like to paint all of southern America in broad red strokes, we know that isn’t true. Tuscaloosa itself lies in one of the most firmly Democratic congressional districts in America, represented by Terri Sewell, a Black woman, who ran unopposed in the last two elections and won by a 52-point margin in 2012. The suburb I grew up in, Madison, is home to NASA headquarters, full of college-educated families, and firmly purple, pragmatic politics.
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