Posted on 09/16/2005 6:47:02 AM PDT by Wombat101
Stifling of Free Expression at UNC. Disgusting.
Freedom of the press is so important to the left isn't it?
sounds like the newspaper is splitting hairs to find a good reason to justify their stifling of free speach.
Daily Tar Heel Columnist Fired (after writing that all Arabs should be strip-searched at airports)
...makes perfect sense to me.
There is next to no REAL freedom of expression at any campus in the USA. We are under the thumb of leftist totalitarians.
Everyday here on FR I see threads asking or encouraging that emails and phone calls be made to various columnist or employers expressing their dislike of various positions expressed. Oddly, when it is the conservatives doing this, it is not considered the "stifling of free expression."
This person just learned a valuable lesson....if you want the freedom to say anything, you need to be your own boss.
A couple of years ago I looked into the idea of starting a conservative student paper to counter the trashy liberal, tabloidesque paper we have on campus. Couldn't find anybody willing to print for us though, and selling ads to businesses would be hard since a lot of them were already selling to the current paper. Looking back, I'm glad it didn't happen because of certain circumstances that happened and the inevitability that my reputation would have been completely trashed by the liberal students. We did have some good ideas, though.
In America, respect is earned, then it is given. Not all people are worthy of respect.
""Freedom of the press is so important to the left isn't it?""
That damn freedom of the press. Huh
Do you think that should be removed from the constitution?
You miss the point. This is a UNIVERSITY. You know, a place where contrasting viewpoints are supposed to be allowed and debated without fear of retaliation?
Yes, she could start her own newspaper, but what makes you think the reaction wouldn't be the same? Don't you think that the same people who now make lame excuses for firing her wouldn't find a way to put her private newspaper out of business?
Sorry, but when it's a university newspaper, funded by tax dollars, she has a right to print what she wants. Especially when "the other side" prints all the disagreeable filth they want to. What's fair is fair.
Liberals version of free speech:
I have the right to spew whatever america-hate I want, but you only have free speech as long as I'm not offended or uncomfortable with what your saying.
The Hate Crimes Laws are nothing more than the implementation of the Values set forth in the European Socialist Manefesto. They undermine our Gurantee of Freedom of Speech by the Constitution. The Hate Crimes were put into law to do just that. We have the right to Hate just as we have the right to Love. The Constitution of the United States is slowly but surely being replaced with the Socialist Version of the European Constitution, read it for yourself:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318061/posts?page=6#6
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318038/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1318034/posts
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=view&id=954
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254190/posts
Another example of the tolerance and diveristy that is the People's Republic of Chapel Hill.
Why shouldn't Arabs be searched more at airports? Every one of the 9/11 hijackers was an Arab. Hey I'm sure most Arabs living in this country are great people but this is just the reality of the situation.
They've taken over the airport in Minneapolis.
I wonder if she'll marry me.
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