Professor Leads Students in Suppression of Free Speech Rights
A professor at Northern Kentucky University was caught on camera by a reporter from the student newspaper destroying a sign accompanying the pro-life display on campus. NKU police are investigating the incident, in which 400 crosses were removed from the ground and thrown in trash cans. The crosses, meant to represent a cemetery for aborted babies, had been temporarily erected by a student Right to Life group with permission from NKU officials.
Sally Jacobsen, a professor in NKU's literature and language department, said the display was dismantled by students in one of her graduate-level classes.
"I invited my students to express their opinion by destroying the display," said Sally Jacobsen, a professor in NKU's literature and language department. "People are saying that I and my students violated the free-speech rights of the right-to-lifers. I say the destruction of offensive displays is an expression of our freedom to not have to listen to opinions we disapprove. I was infuriated. The crosses were intimidating. Women who want to terminate a pregnancy shouldn't have to run a gauntlet of contrary views on their way to the clinic."
Jacobsen dismissed the contention that freedom of speech requires toleration of opposing views. "Women have been too tolerant of a society that oppresses them," said Jacobsen. "We can't be deterred by bourgeois sentimentality. It's time we strike back."
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Apparently the professor's Constitutional right not to be offended was violated.