ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the “institutional neutrality” provisions commonly included in recent state-level “campus free speech” legislation. I argue that their normative promotion of “neutrality” in fact reinforces ideologies of colorblindness, neoliberal individualism, and corporate hegemony. To perform the analysis, I examine the text of the bills and the intellectual lineage from which they descend in conjunction with statements by their proponents and allies in the campus speech debates. The theoretical significance of this analysis thus lies in further interrogating how the norms of the liberal free-speech tradition are imbued with ideological meaning. Relatedly, the article shows that the logic of older critiques regarding media industry concentration and the laissez-faire “marketplace” framework can also be applied to calls for educational institutions to strive for “neutrality.”

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州级校园演讲立法中“制度中立”要求的思想意义

摘要本文着眼于最近在州一级的“校园言论自由”立法中通常包括的“机构中立”条款。我认为，他们对“中立性”的规范性宣传实际上加强了色盲，新自由主义个人主义和公司霸权的意识形态。为了进行分析，我在校园演讲辩论中，结合法案的支持者和盟友的陈述，研究了法案的文本和知识渊源，以及它们的渊源。因此，这种分析的理论意义在于进一步质疑自由言论自由传统的规范如何被意识形态所灌输。相关地，