speech is only free if it protects the things you don't want/like to hear...
Posted on 07/22/2019 4:47:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It became known as “The Bloody Morning Scout.”
In 1755, Ephraim Williams Jr. led colonial forces and some 200 Mohawk allies into battle against French and Indian troops near Lake George, New York. But Williams marched into a deadly ambush.
He was killed in the fight, and his troops were driven back, suffering tremendous losses. But history records that those under his command fought bravely and made “a very handsome retreat.”
Today, the college that bears Williams’ name has been ambushed by its own students, and school officials have beaten a hasty and inglorious retreat.
At Williams College in Massachusetts, biology professor Dr. Luana Maroja wrote online last year that she was concerned about student and administrator attitudes regarding free speech.
She gathered more than 100 faculty signatures on a petition calling for the school to adopt what is known as the “Chicago Principles,” a statement in favor of free expression developed by the University of Chicago.
More than 60 schools have endorsed this statement, a welcome response to the disrupted events and other nonsense that have plagued universities around the country.
Some Williams students will have none of it. Maroja says that more than a dozen of them barged into a faculty meeting last November holding signs such as “free speech harms” and saying faculty were trying to “kill” the students.
After that, tensions escalated. The College Fix reports that a professor subsequently “threatened violence” if Williams adopted the Chicago statement. All this because Maroja dared to promote the idea that Williams should maintain a “climate of mutual respect.”
Williams is a private school, so the First Amendment doesn’t automatically apply to institutional activity there as it does on public college campuses. Still, students should expect that the school would want to promote the civil exchange of ideas.
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If they think free speech is bad maybe they should shut up.
More campus craziness. I hope this does not hit Hillsdale.
PING!
Expel them all.
Newspeak
Free speech is RAY-CISSTS!!!! NO ARRESTS, NO PEACE!!!!!!!
And there you have it.
Hitler did not believe in free speech. These students seem to be agreeing with Hitler. Therefore, by their own distorted logic, they are Hitler. Kinda makes you wonder, if education is even a word worth using anymore?
Try living in a country where free search is outlawed. There are a number of them. They wouldn’t like it.
When are these college big wigs going to start telling these idiots to hit the road when they start this nonsense? They push idiocy as far as allowed and so far they’ve been successful.......cowardly administrations!!
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
If you are a Williams Alum send this to as many others as you can and suggest when alum donations are solicited to be ready to send an appropriate reply.
btt
speech is only free if it protects the things you don't want/like to hear...
Maybe “edumacation?”
Private school? Do they take federal aid? Pell Grants perhaps? Federally backed student loans?
How are they on title IX?
They apparently don’t take federal funding, so Trump’s stance on freedom of speech in colleges would not apply to them.
They take federal funding in the forms of student loans and grants.
There are very few schools that are free of the fedgov and Williams aint one.
You know why everything has gone nuts?
Because those libs in charge
..judges, teachers, bosses.. they have no sense what 2 + 2 equals.. they are clueless what works and what doesn’t..
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