That’s exactly what happened in January when law scholar Ilya Shapiro, who was days from starting a leadership position at Georgetown University Law Center, tweeted that any of President Biden’s potential nominees to the Supreme Court would be “lesser black women.”

Now, we have an answer — but not a good one: After an administrative review, Georgetown Law last week ended Shapiro’s paid leave and again welcomed him to his new job as executive director of the Center for the Constitution. In doing so, the law school trampled over values of equal educational opportunity. Reinstating the author of such a disparaging tweet is not a triumph for freedom of speech, and it drastically reduces the value of the Center for the Constitution, which will effectively no longer be open and equally welcoming to all tuition-paying students, particularly Black women.

We have seen this thinking before. On campuses and in other public squares across the country, free-speech rallying cries typically come at extraordinary costs to marginalized groups. Elevating freedom of speech while discounting every other value often means accepting the denigration of women, people of color and Indigenous people.

I have been on the Georgetown Law faculty for 10 years and am one of three vice presidents of the University Faculty Senate. After Shapiro posted his tweet, many faculty members, including me, called for the rescission of his employment contract. Shapiro had not yet begun working at the law school, and...

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