Posted on 11/04/2010 10:36:13 AM PDT by MissTed
Students have vowed to protest or block North Carolina State University's Free Expression Tunnel until the university's chancellor gives guarantees that no hate speech will be allowed there. About 40 students painted the tunnel black overnight to protest racist and homophobic graffiti involving President Barack Obama painted there Sunday night. Slurs and the name "Obama" were painted over the picture of a black man. "It's not about the N-word. It's not about Obama. It's about racism, period,"
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Universities have come a long ways from the Berkley Free Speech Movement of the mid ‘60s.
“Students have vowed to protest or block North Carolina State University’s Free Expression Tunnel until the university’s chancellor gives guarantees that no hate speech will be allowed there”
In 1984, Orwell missed an angle in creating slogans like “Freedom is slavery.” He should have had college students out chanting the slogan with loud, self-righteous cluelessness.
Screw em. appeal hate speech laws until it applies to everyone equally.
A censorship tunnel. How quaint.
Alas, the mental state of our schools today....
“Failure to Grasp the Concept”
Don’t use the word “free” unless it really is. -— or did they mean that they don’t have to pay for expressing?
Hey, don’t call it the “Free Expression” tunnel if people aren’t free to express themselves. If you don’t like some of the ways people expressed themselves, then instead of painting the whole thing black, just use your own “free expression” to add messages disagreeing with the ones you didn’t like.
I guess that would be too easy...
It’s only “free expression” as long as you don’t express something that offends them, dontcha know? The panty-waists at the college will rename it “Free PC Expression No N-word No homophobic, sexist, anti-global warming Tunnel”. Unfrigginbelievable!
Libs believe:
Truly free speech only comes with proper government oversight and regulation.
I don’t condone the racially motivated graffiti artist’s work and I am irritated that idiot kids have abused the school’s offer to allow a place where kids can get their Krylon-fueled delinquency on.
But, let’s be honest here, can we all agree that the name of the tunnel needs to change? Perhaps The Free Tolerable PC Expression Tunnel?
"I want the Free Expression Tunnel to stay open for students to use to express themselves, but for this to happen again – I want really feel now that something has to be done to stop these actions students from expressing themselves," said N.C. State junior Kelvin Carter, who organized the protest.
I bet they don't even realize the illogical stance they are taking.
I attended State from 94-96 (ended up graduating from UNC) and I remember the tunnel having some things painted on it that were anti-conservative and downright slanderous of conservatives as it was the time of the ‘94 Republican takeover. Then I remember someone spray painted anti-homosexual stuff right over it. Bottom line is it goes both ways as far as who is “offended” from what I remember, but libs only want it one way...they can say what they want, but conservatives can’t.
This tunnel allows pedestrians to go underneath the railroad tracks that bisect the NCSU campus. In my long-ago youth it was only a tunnel. Since NCSU couldn’t stop graffiti artists operating in the Dark of Night, they later *named* it the “Free Expression Tunnel”.
Back in the early ‘70s, though, it was just a good place to steal light bulbs. ;-)
I’m guessing if these students block the tunnel and cause a mile long detour walk from classes to dorms & the bookstore, they will soon enough be punished by their peers.
Ironically, my father was there....he said the Freedom of Speech movement was the stupidest nonsense he ever saw in his life.
free speech is bad now, they restrict it to certain zones and thats too much for some
Easier solution. Don’t like what’s being said? Don’t go in the tunnel.
NCSU’s Paint huffing tube - come huff some fumes in an enclosed space and espouse on the meaning of life. Friggin’ awesome.
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