[Lelu]

He is exercising his right to free speech. Should we not embrace pluralism and receive ALL views including those that are controversial especially in an educational environment? Isn't that the point of getting a higher education? Being informed and educated on ideas and knowledge that we have never heard? What happens when we listen and learn from others? Empathy and compassion...awareness...the greatest knowledge.

[506trooper]

Welcome to FR

Lelu
Since Mar 26, 2005

[Condor51]

Your stay here will be short TROLL. It's..

ZOT Time!

[LS]

As a professor, I am extremely sensitive to anyone wanting to limit "free speech," especially in a genuine classroom setting.

However, there are limits as to what can be regurgitated out as "facts." For instance, does anyone really want a geography prof on ANY U.S. campus espousing "flat earth" theories?

Is there really room for any pre-Newtonian/pre-Galileo view of the earth as the center of the universe? Of course not, because these are ideas demonstrably proven to be false.

On those grounds, Churchill should be given the heave-ho: he is esposing as fact views demonstrably proven to be looney.

Indeed, I anger my colleagues by arguing that Marxism should NEVER be taught on exactly such grounds---that it is as wrong as "flat earth," and that teaching it is a lie.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Sure. We should always be aware of who and where the nuts are. I just don't agree that a university has to pay his salary for voicing his views. This guy hates America and Americans, so I wonder how you would feel about a KKK grand wizard being on the university payroll to spout his hatred of certain sections of the American populace.

Signed up today just to say that, eh? I smell troll!

[NormsRevenge]

lol.. Welcome to FR (probably again)

Is there no limit to the blind adoration that some have for FR? They seem drawn like moths to the flame.

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Re: your multitude of questions, you're full of 'em, btw. ;-)

While you sing Kumbaya with the elitists and esteemed products of a perverted higher education system,, , your enemies will be looting your wares and raping yur kinfolk and stealing your livestock, kind of like what Wadd says we did to the Native Americans.

Oh yeah,, Welcome Back. ;-)

[kingu]

He is exercising his right to free speech. Should we not embrace pluralism and receive ALL views including those that are controversial especially in an educational environment?

Let's take a gander through the schedule at Cal. Let's see if the Swiftboat Vets spoke there, or if Rush Limbaugh did...Oh, gee, what a shocker there - they've never been invited to speak.

If maniacs like Ward are welcome, yet those who have opposite opinions are not, then it isn't a case of free speech. That's limited speech. You're welcome to talk, so long as we agree with your views. That is not the point of higher learning; that is known as brain washing.

[L.N. Smithee]

What happens when we listen and learn from others? Empathy and compassion...awareness...the greatest knowledge.

Uh huh..."Empathy and compassion" from a guy who was happy to see terrorists kill Americans.

Tell me what you have learned from Churchill.

Don't chicken out, newbie.

[Ladysmith]

Empathy and compassion...awareness...the greatest knowledge.

Indoctrination and reversed discrimination..."feelings"...rewritten history and distorted viewpoints.

[CounterCounterCulture]

He is exercising his right to free speech.

He can have all the free speech he wants. There's no reason for Colorado residents and tuition-paying students to subsidize his hate speech.

Isn't that the point of getting a higher education?

Naw. The point of getting a higher education is to get that sheepskin that improves your status on the job market. Others use higher education to get drunk/stoned and hook up with co-eds. Some do both.

[N3WBI3]

Lelu, given you have been here a whole 2 days, you smell like a troll...

He has every right to say whatever he wants, he does not have a right to recieve taxpayer money to say it. We also have the right to protest what he says (thats our right to free speach)..