The Advantages of Academic Spaces to Free Speech

There have been a bunch of private institutions that have been arguing for the right to at least on some level, maybe their employees to either say slurs or just do like very, very bigoted things. So obviously those are all institutions where the First Amendment doesn't actually apply because you can't use the First Amendment against private actors. But even if the Constitution is not giving you a right of action, that this is a violation of your constitutional rights, there is an advantage to the idea that academic spaces are open to free speech and academic freedom. I also think that academic spaces should be subject to proper citation.