So shouting someone down is now officially an exercise in free speech?
SOURCE:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/07/18/play
"The protesters, angry at the satire depicting the last of two days of the life of Jesus, forced the show to stop several times. At the behest of campus security guards concerned about a potential riot, Chris Lee, a theater major who wrote, directed, and portrayed the cross-dressing Lucifer in the play, self-censored one of the show’s songs. Instead of singing “I would do anything for God, but I won’t act black,” a parody of Meat Loaf’s “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that,” the “black” was changed to “blank.”
"Along with jokes about gay people, AIDS, Hitler, and the use of “nigger,” another chorus that roiled audience members was the “And I will always hate Jews” refrain in the parody of Whitney Houston’s hit “I Will Always Love You.” And of course there was the scene where newborn babies were shot onto the stage, apparently from a Mormon mother’s offstage womb, and Jesus, like a good outfielder, caught all 16 of them."
Why wouldn't they simply extend a hand with a "thumbs down" gesture? It is a dignified and traditional way to express disapproval without producing disruption. Some good manners ought to be caned into them.
In San Francisco there is a private library called the Mechanics Institute. It is the oldest library on the West Coast, started in 1855. It burned down in the 1906 SF earthquake but was quickly rebuilt and restocked. There are a few old books on the shelves dating back to 1906 but none before. What struck me is how politically correct all the books that remain are. Any book containing a single sentence counter to modern leftism has sadly disappeared. That is the majority of old books.