Student says his freedom of speech was “silenced” after being told to stop talking in class

Blurp Thompskin, staff

AUniversity of Manitoba student is claiming his freedom of speech was violated after his professor told him to stop talking in his Introduction to Philosophy class.

“Academic freedom is under attack,” said first-year student Gavin Hannity, who maintains that his “ground-breaking” new theory on Rick and Morty was “silenced.”

“I guess I should have expected this kind of persecution,” he sighed. “To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty.”

Hannity’s professor Noam Finkelstein told the Ivory Buffalo that Hannity was talking to the students sitting next to him while Finkelstein attempted to give a lecture on the dialectical method.

“only 20 minutes” into the explanation of his interpretation of the hit TV show.

“I think it was still relevant to the lecture,” said Hannity, “I mean, it was about dialectics and I was talking to other students in class.”

Conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro weighed in on the controversy, saying it proves his point about the “atmosphere of intimidation” he thinks is prevalent in post-secondary institutions.

Shapiro’s fellow Daily Wire contributor Jordan Peterson referred to the incident as “the greatest threat to freedom of speech since last Tuesday,” and compared it to events described in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago Peterson was unable to comment further on the case as he was overwhelmed with tears at the thought of “the woke moralists.” ivorybuffalo@themanitoban.com

“I told him,‘why don’t you tell the rest of the class what you’re talking about, since it’s obviously so much more interesting than my lecture?’” said Finkelstein.

“Huge mistake on my part.”

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Hannity said that he then began to explain his perspective on Rick and Morty to the class, but Finkelstein cut him off