Ever since Joe Biden became president, routine lawlessness has been gripping the land – and those most guilty are ones who are supposed to make or uphold our laws.
Left-wing big-city prosecutors say they’ll no longer prosecute criminals, especially minorities; the Biden administration ignores a Supreme Court ruling that declared the national eviction moratorium unconstitutional and reinstates it; Democratic lawmakers in Texas flee the state instead of taking a political loss from duly elected Republicans like adults.
That creeping political cancer is now metastasizing to rungs lower in the ladder.
A couple of months ago former University of Oklahoma volleyball player Kylee McLaughlin sued the school and her one-time coaches, claiming her coaches retaliated against her for sharing conservative opinions. that countered the liberal narrative.
As examples, McLaughlin criticized a “13th,” a Netflix documentary about slavery that coaches forced the players to watch, as liberal and anti-Trump. She also tweeted in sympathy with University of Texas students who rejected claims that the school song, “The Eyes of Texas,” was racist.
McLaughlin, a former team captain, and a two-time all-Big 12 player asserted in her lawsuit that she was shunned to the point of having to transfer, which she did, to the University of Mississippi.
Now, according to the conservative website The College Fix, McLaughlin’s coaches, who are public employees, argue they had the right to censor her views.
In their motion to dismiss the lawsuit, coachs’ Lindsey Gray-Walton and Kyle Walton, indicated they needed to marginalize McLaughlin for the sake of team unity.
“While Plaintiff was free to make bigoted statements, she was not free from the consequences of how her teammates perceived those statements, their motion states.
“The First Amendment cannot force her teammates to trust Plaintiff or desire to play with her. Consequently, the Complaint makes clear that Coach (Gray-)Walton was within her rights to cultivate a winning ‘team atmosphere’ by ensuring the players that ‘trust’ each other would be on the court.”
The motion is also rife with typical liberal hypocrisy.
On one hand, the coaches’ lawyer claims there was no pressure on McLaughlin to retract her statements and social media posts. She could, in fact, reiterate them today, the lawyer argues.
Yet, at the same time, he then asserts the player had no right to react to their lefty politics, even though they were the ones who injected racial politics into the team atmosphere – a team that McLaughlin had been named captain of.
The coaches maintain in court documents that, in the name of trying to win, a college coach can strip a student-athlete’s freedom of speech.
“As it relates to on-court conduct, for example, students are not at liberty to question the decisions of the coach via a First Amendment claim. The plays and strategies are seldom up for debate. Execution of the coach’s will is paramount,” the motion says.
“Likewise, a player’s speech that potentially disrupts, distracts from, or hurts ‘team unity,’ ‘sportsmanship,’ or the ‘cohesiveness of the team,’ is subject to a coach’s remedial action.”
Welcome to Biden’s America.
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The coaches should be fired, end of story! The students pay to go to school there. The Volleyball coaches are there to teach Volleyball! Private companies can not say no, you can’t come in because of your beliefs! They are communists!
Since when has a documentary about slavery been a part of the plays and strategies in coaching volleyball?