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No, a public university may not expel students for racist speech
Washington Post ^ | March 10, 2015 | Eugene Volokh

Posted on 03/10/2015 9:20:42 AM PDT by C19fan

Some Oklahoma University students in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity were videorecorded singing (as best I and others can tell),

There will never be a n***** at SAE There will never be a n***** at SAE You can hang him from a tree But he’ll never sign with me There will never be a n***** at SAE

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Oklahoma University president David Boren said, “If I’m allowed to, these students will face suspension or expulsion.” But he is not, I think, allowed to do that.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: fraternity; oklahoma; racism; sigmaalphaepsilon; uofoklahoma
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1 posted on 03/10/2015 9:20:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Just curious, why is it acceptable for a Black rapper to use the N word as well as shout about raping women and harming police, yet a White uses the N word and they close down a frat and threaten to expel them.

What is Freedom of Speech anyway?


2 posted on 03/10/2015 9:22:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: C19fan

The cute tag line on the news about fraternity members having to move without any help from university housing, that they don’t help bigots, is also something they can’t do. Personally, I think most of the fraternity has some good lawsuits to file.


3 posted on 03/10/2015 9:24:07 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Freedom of speech is whatever you are willing to stand up for. Most aren’t willing to stand up for their freedoms. Freedom from speech is becoming the new norm (unless you are a false flag operation to embarrass conservatives.)


4 posted on 03/10/2015 9:26:37 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

Lawsuits based on what?


5 posted on 03/10/2015 9:28:09 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: 1Old Pro
n*****

Napkin? Nissan? Narwal?

6 posted on 03/10/2015 9:30:10 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: C19fan

David Boren was a Democratic politician before he became president of the university. I will be surprised if he doesn’t try to expel the students. It could lead to a lawsuit but he might figure that the students in question wouldn’t sue to get readmitted and instead would go somewhere else. After all, one of the football team’s recruits has changed his mind about attending OU. That’s more significant to OU than upholding the right of white students to say offensive things.


7 posted on 03/10/2015 9:31:13 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan

Mario Savio. Free Speech Movement. UC Berkeley. 1964.

It bacame OK to say anything on campus in public.


8 posted on 03/10/2015 9:31:19 AM PDT by alpo
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To: C19fan

The news is reporting that 2 students have now been expelled not for speech, but for creating a “hostile learning environment” for others.


9 posted on 03/10/2015 9:32:03 AM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: 1Old Pro

Glad you asked that question. As an authority, I can safely say that those blacks using the ‘N’ word are special people and not subservient to the rules and morays of everyday common people.


10 posted on 03/10/2015 9:32:15 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Jeff Chandler

noggin


11 posted on 03/10/2015 9:32:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Some of them even become president

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTdyMklPv3g


12 posted on 03/10/2015 9:33:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: 1Old Pro

Our culture apparently considers whites to be more civilized and holds them to a higher standard.

And all that that implies.


13 posted on 03/10/2015 9:33:46 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: C19fan

They cannot expel the students. The fraternity, however, is a for profit business operating at the will of the University. It can be thrown off campus.


14 posted on 03/10/2015 9:35:15 AM PDT by Regal
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To: Tau Food

Kinda like nailing people, after being found not guilty of a particular crime against someone else, for “violating their civil rights.”


15 posted on 03/10/2015 9:35:20 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Regal
They cannot expel the students.

Well, they just did.

16 posted on 03/10/2015 9:36:01 AM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: C19fan

Megyn Kelly made a complete fool of herself in regards to this last night on her show.


17 posted on 03/10/2015 9:36:13 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (Daniel 2 Daniel 7 Daniel 9 Revelation 13 Revelation 16 Revelation 17 Revelation 18 Revelation 19)
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To: C19fan

Incorrect.

The “racist” bludgeon will be used, and regardless of any prior written rules or rulings,

“racism” will be deemed worse than ANY other crime,
and the student will be expelled.


18 posted on 03/10/2015 9:36:37 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Tau Food

A law suit is a brewin’.


19 posted on 03/10/2015 9:37:15 AM PDT by Regal
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To: StoneWall Brigade
Megyn Kelly makes a complete fool of herself.

Fixed it.

20 posted on 03/10/2015 9:37:50 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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