https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phSxxVJCZsc

No, they should not. The problem is – unless someone in authority in Texas HAS actually said something about this and has gotten no publicity — that Governor Abbott and the Republicans in the Texas Legislature are essentially too complacent / cowardly to stand up and say, “No, we will NOT tolerate this kind of behavior by those in authority at a public university.” Instead, crickets. They say / do nothing, leaving people like Prof. Heirs to dangle in the wind.

All that it takes for evil to triumph, etc.

The real takeaway from this is that an alarming number of college students today — perhaps even a majority? — do not see any value in free speech, believing instead that society is better served if no one is allowed to say anything that might disturb or offend anyone else. And, likewise, they see little value in many of the other provisions of the Constitution. In short, they live in what is essentially (for themselves and their professors, at any rate) a post-Constitutional world where feelings, group-think, and political expediency have effectively obviated the Social Contract and the Rule of Law.

As Prof. Akhil Reed Amar has observed in his book, America’s Unwritten Constitution, even our foundational national document rests on deeply rooted cultural precedents and ways of understanding such concepts of fairness, equity, and justice (a kind of synthesis of both our Judeo-Christian heritage and the Enlightenment), and when these understandings change — as they seem to be changing, now — there is a clamor to throw the old orthodoxies out and begin again*. Thus wokeness, “building back better,” and the new Davos conception of what a “good society” (and even being human) might look like.

*The Jacobins tried this in 1789, the Bolsheviks in 1917, and the Nazis in 1934. Today, the Biden-Ho Administration is attempting the same kind of cultural coup, only this time, apparently. with far more public and media support.

But, again, Governor Abbott and the Texas Legislature seem blissfully unaware of such things, believing, perhaps, that the Constitution is self-enforcing and that there need be no public — or even legislative / administrative — consensus behind its application and the Rule of Law. There is a phrase, “speaking sanely of serious things,” that one wishes would be associated with our elected leaders at all levels, but just the opposite seems to apply. Even less so their willingness to oppose the horde of Gramscian critical theorists who have taken over our universities and now our public schools.

Fools, cowards, spoiled children; pick whatever name for them that best fits. We are reaping the results of their inaction and ineptitude.
At least at the local school board level, many parents seem to be getting some inkling of what needs to be done.

I would need attitudes I can manage.