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Black Purdue Students Demand Free Speech be "Revised"
iOTW Report ^ | 11/17/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 11/17/2015 1:21:22 PM PST by rightistight

Hundreds of African American students and faculty members rallied against perceived racism at Purdue University this past weekend, holding signs and chanting things such as "Hey, hey, ho, ho, racism has got to go" and "Hell no, we won't go."

The students also released a set of demands, listed in Purdue's student paper.

Among students' demands, they call on Purdue to "revise" their "free speech policy" based on what they believe is "hate speech."

Part of the list reads, "We demand that the free speech policy be revised to address hate speech in person and through social media. We demand the university to follow harassment policies consistently to protect students from hostility."

Purdue's official policy on free speech and "hate" reads:

In a word, the University's fundamental commitment is to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed. It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the University as an institution, to make those judgments for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose.
This is not good enough for students at Purdue. Students believe that speech that they find offensive should be silenced, or at the very least not allowed to be freely expressed.

They also want the university to "more actively and effectively advertise and utilize the Report Hate & Bias program."

Among other things demanded by the students, they "demand that there be a 20 percent increase of underrepresented minority faculty and staff by the 2019-2020 school year" as well as "there be a 30 percent increase of underrepresented minority students by the 2019-2020 school year."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: college; education; freespeech; purdue; thugculture
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To: rightistight

I love their slogans. You can tell they worked really hard on them.


41 posted on 11/17/2015 2:23:14 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: luvbach1
And since opposing sites like Dem Underground don’t offend leftists, they will be unaffected.

Naw, think it through a moment. When FR is banned, we'll all move over to DU. Of course, then it'll have to be banned but not before we have some major fun.

42 posted on 11/17/2015 2:28:47 PM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: luvbach1

Pacific Beach, I was surprised La Jolla is only about 83%


43 posted on 11/17/2015 3:05:29 PM PST by Jolla
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To: GingisK

Pacific Beach 28,000


44 posted on 11/17/2015 3:06:58 PM PST by Jolla
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To: Jolla

PB (Pacific Beach San Diego) is very nice; lively; parking is madness.


45 posted on 11/17/2015 3:14:44 PM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: luvbach1

Yes, I lived there when I first moved to California in the 80s really loved it, moved to the bay area for the last 25 years, selling the house and moving back down there.


46 posted on 11/17/2015 3:19:22 PM PST by Jolla
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To: soycd
Lol.

Great song!

47 posted on 11/17/2015 3:33:06 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Mears

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. My parents response was similar. Learn to deal with it.


48 posted on 11/17/2015 4:43:36 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: rightistight
20% underrepresented minority faculty? I’ld hire conservatives, minority if possible.
49 posted on 11/17/2015 5:11:36 PM PST by Lee Enfield (I identify as rich, cut me a check.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

You may be very right, who is stopping them? They have cannon fodder called brainless guilt wrought white college students to throw themselves on the gears.

Whites are not friends, they are called allies, which suggests “temporary useful idiot”.


50 posted on 11/17/2015 5:27:51 PM PST by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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