The University of Florida campus group says the suspension over an off-campus post violated free speech

A dispute among student Republican groups in Florida over alleged antisemitic behavior is heading for a courtroom after a chapter at the state’s flagship university was suspended for an online post featuring two people giving Nazi salutes.

On Saturday, University of Florida (UF) blocked campus operations of the school’s College Republicans after the group’s state leadership said it had disbanded the chapter for engaging in “a pattern of conduct that violated its rules and values, including a recent antisemitic gesture”.

The chapter responded Monday by filing a free speech lawsuit against UF leadership, arguing that the action violated the constitutional first amendment rights of a member engaging in an off-campus activity.

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    Telling their only problem with the nazi salutes is the anti salmonism. As if they were the only victims.

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        Gross to not deny communists, socialists, leftists, trade unionists, opposition politicians, gypsies, slavs, gays, and others dying en masse at the hands of the Nazis and only recognize the suffering of the one group that is now itself being claimed to be represented by Nazis, which is to say the Israelis that claim the mantle of judism to deflect criticism from their naziism against other others.

        Your comment is gross. In defense of fascists pursuing a final solution against 5 million people, and multiple wars, just to start.

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            Nothing I said was incorrect, or immoral, but what you are defending is unconscionable, so you should be the one to shut the fuck up because you can’t fucking read. A dozen halfwits notwithstanding.