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Harvard writer: Free speech threatens liberalism and must be destroyed
Daily Caller ^ | 2/23/14 | Robby Soave

Posted on 02/24/2014 2:39:08 PM PST by Libloather

If this Harvard University student got her way, free speech on campus would be abolished and professors with dissenting views fired, because radical leftism is the only permissible political philosophy and the First Amendment is a barrier preventing modern colleges from fulfilling their proper role as indoctrination camps.

Her name is Sandra Korn. She is a senior at Harvard and columnist for the Harvard Crimson.

In a recent column, Korn unambiguously insisted that the university should stop guaranteeing professors and students the right to hold controversial views and pursue research that challenges liberalism.

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To: Gaffer

Korn and Sandra Fluke drive around in Korn’s Prius fantasizing about bedding Hillary!


21 posted on 02/24/2014 2:56:42 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Libloather

“Sandra Y.L. Korn ’14, a Crimson editorial writer, is a joint history of science and studies of women, gender and sexuality concentrator”

“Concentrator”? Ah-huh.

I read the article. There is a kernel - a very small kernel - of truth in what she says. There *are* some professors who spout dogma and political advocacy and hide behind the academic freedom banner. Ward Churchill comes to mind.

That said, her solution is the path of fascism and mob rule. The age old questions of what is unacceptable, who decides what is acceptable, and who watches the watchers all immediately come to the forefront when giving her proposal even the most superficial examination.

By all means, if you find something unacceptable, feel free to speak out about it. Peaceful assembly and freedom to speak one’s mind are two of the most sacred rights guaranteed by our great constitution. But don’t think for a minute you have the right to squelch an agenda or idea that doesn’t fit your own narrative of what is “right”, you little jackboot.


22 posted on 02/24/2014 2:57:14 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is *always* intense.)
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To: Libloather

What idiots like this don’t think about is what happens when those with opposing views take control and outlaw their viewpoints and sentence them to death for them. History is full of this type of thing and idiots like her just don’t seem to grasp the concepts of free speech. Or, they are incapable of arguing their viewpoint and must have the opposite viewpoint banned. It is just unbelievable what our “education” system is producing now.


23 posted on 02/24/2014 2:57:40 PM PST by falcon99
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To: GeronL

She would fit in well here in Canada. Perhaps she can apply to be on a Human Rights Commission.


24 posted on 02/24/2014 2:58:47 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Libloather

Sandra Korn

Sandra is a senior at Harvard College studying history of science and studies of women, gender, and sexuality. She writes for the Harvard Crimson.

25 posted on 02/24/2014 2:58:53 PM PST by kcvl
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To: atc23

I think that’s what I used to call “skanking out”


26 posted on 02/24/2014 2:59:19 PM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: kimoajax

Mzzzzzz Korn is a typical liberal twerp, but her views probably are no different from those of 99% of tenured faculty at any of our behemoth schools of indoctrination.

For the umpteenth time, it was William F. Buckley who observed, “I would rather be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the Harvard University faculty.”

Quite the little fascist, isn’t she?


27 posted on 02/24/2014 3:01:11 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: JRandomFreeper
I will laugh at them.

Anymore, that is about as civil as I can be to these people.

28 posted on 02/24/2014 3:01:12 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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29 posted on 02/24/2014 3:01:18 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Libloather

Like ALL past lefty past leaders like Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot, etc, folks like Sandra Korn HONESTLY believe that Progressivism—state control-will work THIS TIME because the RIGHT people are in charge.

Never mind about the mass murders of the past using force of the state to implement the so-called utopian people’s paradise.

State violence won’t happen with THEM in charge—sarc/off


30 posted on 02/24/2014 3:01:31 PM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: kcvl
Is she the Debbie Wasserpoodle’s little sister?
31 posted on 02/24/2014 3:02:04 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Libloather

It is Sandra that must be destroyed or at least exiled. She is unfit to breathe American air


32 posted on 02/24/2014 3:02:30 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Libloather

How does a person who grew up in America not understand or appreciate freedom of speech and want to eliminate it? How does that happen? Seriously, is this taught in class?


33 posted on 02/24/2014 3:04:21 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Libloather

There’s a Federal media monitering job at the FCC waiting for her.


34 posted on 02/24/2014 3:04:47 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Libloather

Fifty years ago, liberals were against The Man. Now they are The Man, and they don’t want competition.

Stop the wind, if you can.


35 posted on 02/24/2014 3:08:18 PM PST by lurk
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To: Libloather

“academic justice” = Rebranded “Social Justice” which is nothign more than.


36 posted on 02/24/2014 3:08:49 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Libloather
UnAmerican at it's worst. She does not deserve to live in the USA another minute.
Communists like her need to be arrested as treasonous agitators of the Constitution and
placed into a prison hole to Rot.

The Constitution isn't a suicide document and should be protected at all costs against
those who seek it's destruction and subversion.

37 posted on 02/24/2014 3:09:22 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Chgogal

Woody Allen with hair


38 posted on 02/24/2014 3:10:39 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: kcvl

Sandra is a senior at Harvard College studying history of science and studies of women, gender, and sexuality. She writes for the Harvard Crimson.

A degree that entails speaking volumes and saying nothing of inherent value.


39 posted on 02/24/2014 3:12:45 PM PST by GraceG
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To: JRandomFreeper

“I will laugh at them.”

Laugh at your own peril. Over achieving little facist wannabes like Miss Korn have a way of getting into positions of power. Her and people like her will be making life and death decisions about who gets health care, who gets investigated by the FBI or NSA, etc. They become congressional aides, white house advisors, DOJ administrators, or even supreme court justices. One day you may be called to appear her as she decides whether or not you go to the gulag or merely to a re-education camp.


40 posted on 02/24/2014 3:16:29 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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