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College Kowtows to Students Saying ‘Free Speech Harms’
The Daily Signal ^ | July 19, 2019 | Jonathan Butcher

Posted on 07/22/2019 4:47:03 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Chickensoup

Thanks for the clarification. LET’S GET ‘EM!!!


21 posted on 07/22/2019 6:31:08 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They need to pass the Chicago Principles resolution right away. I don’t know it verbatim but I remember reading it a few years ago. The very idea “free speech harms” is a dangerous notion - the fact that they are free to say it, however, is why the Chicago Principles need to be ratified.

“Free Speech Harms” is nothing but totalitarianism. They want to regulate all kinds of speech and it isn’t going to stop until it is stopped completely. It needs to be trounced for many reasons, including the simple fact that it is impossible to know what may offend any single person.

Most people, most of the time, don’t want to deliberately offend other people - but when they do, you know it. It isn’t hidden in code words and euphemisms. If someone is offended, the best solution is for that person say why they are offended and maybe dialogue will ensue that will bring people closer together instead of dividing them further. After that, move on. Life is too short to carry a grudge over some silly figure of speech.


22 posted on 07/22/2019 7:00:56 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It surely would if they try to take mine away. Folks, I’m under Oath.


23 posted on 07/22/2019 7:14:03 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Williams, like most schools, is nominally private but receives government money. If it takes an anti-free speech attitude, it should receive no government money.

Hillsdale is one of the few that refuses government money in any form — even government-backed student loans. Government money brings government control. So Hillsdale can actually do what it wants.


24 posted on 07/22/2019 7:20:11 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Fire the Students and the Admissions Office who selected them.

It’s the only way.


25 posted on 07/22/2019 7:47:13 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Time to bash some commie heads and get the professor who advocated violence against those who wanted to protect it.


26 posted on 07/23/2019 1:17:56 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I hope this does not hit Hillsdale.

It couldn't hit Hillsdale, or that would be the end of Hillsdale, which requires every student to take a course in the U.S. Constitution. Clarence Thomas spoke at Hillsdale's 2016 commencement.

27 posted on 07/23/2019 3:38:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When will people start standing up to these disruptors and come right into their faces with beating drums, ringing large bells, electric megaphones or airhorns to protect their own right to hear invited speakers?


28 posted on 07/23/2019 4:16:51 AM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No 1A = no federal funding.


29 posted on 07/23/2019 5:11:27 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: MuttTheHoople

I’m pretty sure that the term “kowtow” is racist.


30 posted on 07/23/2019 5:13:08 AM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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