Posted on 07/21/2005 3:35:13 PM PDT by Coleus
Hard to believe but I agree with someone named "Jihad".
Bwahahahahahahahaha!
---"He used the word 'perversion' and that's discriminatory," she said. "There are kinds of speech that are not protected. You cannot cry out 'fire' in a crowded theater."---
A person who utters such idiocy should have 'moron' tatooed on their forehead.
Yes, over 225 years ago, countless men died and put their lives on the line JUST SO you could have the sacred right to never be offended.
"Hard to believe but I agree with someone named "Jihad"."
Same here. Was I magically transported to Bizzaro world while napping?
We've all seen this assertion a hundred times, but (it occurred to me for the first time the other day) is it true? I mean, seriously: if you believe there's a fire in the theater, aren't you obliged to shout "fire!"? And if you shout "fire" when you don't believe it, thereby endangering everyone in the theater likely to be caught in a stampede, isn't the issue one of fraud rather than speech? There are all sorts of situations in which you cannot legally lie, even though a lie is only speech.
OMG I hate that I have to support the muslim.
But he did not initiate the email, he responded to an email. He expressed his opinion in detail and requested tht he not be sent emails like that.
Boy, will the lib academia be shuck'n and jiv'n on this one..."how do we attack Bush when the two parties are a lesbian and a muslim?
Apparently truth is not protected free speech.
Tell them not to send any to me, as well Jihad, for once, I agree with you.
We should ban people saying "Its discrimination!" as if that is a bad thing to discriminate between people who behave with reason, and those who are unreasonable.
Apparently discussion to liberals means only accepting their point of view. A university is not a place to have any discussion of ideas, anyone remember what happend at Harvard earlier this year.
..."how do we attack Bush when the two parties are a lesbian and a muslim?"
Exactly!
He certainly has the right not to receive e-mail promoting lesbianism at work. He should have just used more "diplomatic" language in being asked to be taken off the Women's Studies e-mail list, i.e., "Please delete my name off your list as I do not desire being sent material of a sexual nature at my place of work."
Only someone devoid of any ability whatsoever to use logic and common sense would attempt to make that analogy. There is NO similarity. Period.
University spokesman Stuart Goldstein said he could not comment on personnel matters, but said the school follows the state policy regarding discrimination and harassment. That policy prohibits "displaying or distributing material in the workplace that contains language or images that are derogatory or demeaning based upon any of the foregoing classifications."
You know, I think the guy could have easily turned this around on THEM. I would have made the argument that sending me solicitations for a lesbian film was "displaying or distributing material in the workplace that contains language or images that are derogatory or demeaning..."
What kind of an upside-down society do we live in when you receive a solicitation for a lesbo movie and when you say "NO MORE", YOU are the one in trouble? God help us.
"He used the word 'perversion' and that's discriminatory," she said. "There are kinds of speech that are not protected. You cannot cry out 'fire' in a crowded theater."
If the fire is really present, as was the perversion, then it is ok to shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater.
If this Jihad is 68, somewhere he changed his name. I bet before he was Jihad he was probably Roscoe La Rue. Which probably means Go Chew on My Dead Tennis Shoe
If the guy had been an evangelical Christian, the aclu probably would have tried to put him in jail.
The "fire in a crowded theater" phrase, while a non sequiter, is somewhat ironic in regards to this issue. Does this not demonstrate there is an anti-intellectual bonfire on our campuses if someone can show such a film and pass it off as "higher education?"
And another thing! Isn't flaunting women's sexuality and acts considered perversion by Muslims considered TORTURE if you are detained at GITMO? Using Dickie Durbin's reasoning, can't this guy claim he is being TORTURED right here in the good 'ol USA?
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