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Princeton holds 'F%*# Free Speech' event for Constitution Day
Campus Reform ^ | 9.18.17 | Matthew Penza

Posted on 09/19/2017 12:48:17 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl

This year, Princeton University’s annual Constitution Day Lecture contended that “the academy has never promoted free speech as a central value.”

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This is the work of students AND professors! Absurd!!
1 posted on 09/19/2017 12:48:17 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Sorry snowflakes! Brave soldiers gave their lives so you and I can have free speech. You’re not going to take it away from anyone.


2 posted on 09/19/2017 12:50:40 PM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

We’ve always been at war with EastAsia


3 posted on 09/19/2017 12:51:16 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

4 posted on 09/19/2017 12:51:58 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

They use free speech to speak against free speech.

/GolfClap


5 posted on 09/19/2017 12:52:40 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: AppyPappy

...and the chocolate ration has been raised to 20 grams!.............


6 posted on 09/19/2017 12:55:32 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Travis McGee

Rule 308 (three-oh-eight)

When Marxist mayors order their police to stand down,
So that Antifa thugs can beat old men to the ground,
Don’t think they’ve surrendered, or been run out of town.
Politicians should consider, and media bosses beware:
When Amendment One is abridged, the Second’s still there,
Just watching and waiting, like a rattlesnake in its lair.
When justice is perverted, and Marxist judges legislate,
When free speech is censored, then banished as hate,
Then the only rule standing will be Rule 308.


7 posted on 09/19/2017 12:56:44 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
Rouse asserted that "culture is what helps us determine the appropriateness of speech by balancing our rights as enshrined in the Constitution with understandings of context."

This argument, if one can dignify this mess of ambiguity with that term, boils down to "culture trumps the Constitution". In fact, it does not.

8 posted on 09/19/2017 12:57:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Princeton University should be stripped of its academic accreditation. A Princeton diploma should be worth no more than used toilet paper from a diarrhetic ward.


9 posted on 09/19/2017 12:58:03 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

If only there were an entity that would shut them down........

RICH with irony!


10 posted on 09/19/2017 12:58:36 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

11 posted on 09/19/2017 12:58:58 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl
“the academy has never promoted free speech as a central value.”

Founded in 1746, 41 years before the US Constitution was law. That could have some bearing on the free speech issue...other than Princeton's "In service for Humanity"...as long as you agree with them............

12 posted on 09/19/2017 12:59:26 PM PDT by yoe
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

Princeton University has declared itself an enemy of freedom.

When the accounting comes they will be remembered.


13 posted on 09/19/2017 1:01:53 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

“Princeton holds ‘F%*# Free Speech’ event for Constitution Day”

Arrest those at Princeton who dared to even say this...since they hate freedom of speech. F**k subversives.


14 posted on 09/19/2017 1:02:27 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Travis McGee

excellent post #4

beautiful


15 posted on 09/19/2017 1:03:12 PM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: Made In The USA

I’d beg to differ. They want free speech gone? Fine. Arrest their sorry behinds, and throw them in the darkest hole that there is. It’s what they are begging for


16 posted on 09/19/2017 1:03:19 PM PDT by ferret_airlift
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl; yoe

Its first President, John Knox Witherspoon
February 5, 1722
Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland

Died
November 15, 1794 (aged 71)
Near Princeton, New Jersey

Resting place
Princeton Cemetery

Nationality
American/Scottish

Alma mater
University of Edinburgh

Occupation
Clergyman and theologian

John Witherspoon (February 5, 1722 – November 10, 1794) was a Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Father of the United States.[1] Witherspoon embraced the concepts of Scottish Common Sense Realism, and while president of the College of New Jersey (1768–94; now Princeton University), became an influential figure in the development of the United States’ national character. Politically active, Witherspoon was a delegate from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signatory to the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence. He was the only active clergyman and the only college president to sign the Declaration.[2] Later, he signed the Articles of Confederation and supported ratification of the Constitution. In 1789 he was Convening Moderator of the First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.


17 posted on 09/19/2017 1:03:22 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: BBQToadRibs
And they use peaceable assembly to riot.

-PJ

18 posted on 09/19/2017 1:03:30 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Billthedrill
Whose culture are they even referring to? Certainly not American culture, which was clearly reflected in the drafting of both the Constitution & the Bill of Rights!

America: Based On Experience & Reason.

19 posted on 09/19/2017 1:05:29 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: ItsOnlyDaryl

““For me it seems so context-based. Culture is a wonderful thing because it makes us feel free even when we’re not actually free, right? There’s no such thing as uncoerced free will. We learn to desire the things that we’re taught from an early age, that we’re acculturated to,” she continued. “My sense is that we’re always adjusting our interpretation of that based upon our own experiences. So I don’t know, when we talk about natural rights, I’m not sure if they’re natural rights or if they’re just our illusion of natural rights because we’ve grown up believing it—because it’s our ‘common sense.’”

Why unadulterated BS!

This professor needs to be sacked - she’s an idiot and doesn’t understand the concept of objectively established rights (thinking they’re only “cultural” as she’s A Obviously an atheist (and incapable of thinking there’s something better than herself) B a Marxist (because she thinks culture determines all values so the state is all and all is the state)

Unlike her idiotic beliefs - I have no problem with her thinking them or pontificating on them. But, to use her own definitions, I think she should be silenced when it comes to stating her opinions are professional or authoritative.


20 posted on 09/19/2017 1:12:33 PM PDT by Skywise
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