Firing the 'Politically Incorrect' is censorship

HoustonChronicle.com ^ | Nov. 14, 2001, 6:17PM | NORAH VINCENT

[rw4site]

Original article - U.S. just as guilty of committing own violent acts

Response to Original - Jensen's words his own (U.S. just as guilty of committing own violent acts)

[mgc1122]

Here's a hint. No one is censoring the perfessor. He was, is and will be free to say any stupid damn thing he wants. The USCON does not afford him any privilege from being exempt from the ramification of such "free" speech however.

[ijcr]

Gee! Where was this guy when homosexuals destroyed the Dr. Laura show.

[Aunt Polgara]

You forgot the "Barf Alert" warning. :-)

[VA Advogado]

So its only censorship if the speaker is a government paid liberal?

[dell Arpa]

Amen. Don't seem to remember him attacking the NAACP for its economic boycott of S. Carolina. I wonder why... (Okay, I don't really.)

[DB]

What??!! Words have consequences??!!

[stevem]

Yanking advertisements from network television shows should also be unconstitutional.

Huh?

[diggerwillow]

How about the boycott of Florida orange juice, by the NEA, when Rush became their main spokesman?

[Rudder]

The first amendment does not protect sedition, however.

[bleudevil]

Of course a freelance journalist is going to like the idea of advertisers being forced to pay for media. That's like Del Monte wanting to pass a law that everyone serve green bean casserole at Thanksgiving.

[AppyPappy]

If the professor had said that Martin Luther King was an adulterer, the liberals would not be crying "censorship" when he got fired.

[joebuck]

"You can fire a professor because he's a bad or unqualified teacher, but you shouldn't be able to fire him because he expresses unpopular views. Otherwise, the First Amendment would be meaningless. After all, how free can your speech be if your job is in peril if you say the wrong thing?"

Humm, I don't recall ANYBODY in the media taking this position when baseball's John Rocker got hounded into an suspention for his Sports Illustrated comments and almost lost his job. Or, when Dr. Laura got hounded off television by the gay rights organizations. Would the author have the same opinion if a professor suddenly announced that they were a member of a far right hate group such as the Christian Identity movement and started making racist lectures? Of course she wouldn't. What hypocrites!

[prognostigaator]

.....intimidation and coercion -- including the kind of economic coercion that threatens jobs and livelihoods -- are censorship, however you spin it.

Yep , and your opinions were just published on the pages of FR, reaching a far greater readership than you imagined.....unspun and uncoerced.

However, intimidation , flogging, and other sorts of diabolical punishment isn't.

[BufordP]

Would it be censorship if the student body refused to attend his class? I hope the students find alternatives to the teachings of a buffoon. Then the further employment of his services at the university would be rendered moot.

[bleudevil]

I agree with you. Seriously, why do we have the tradition of tenure in academia? Workers in lots of other jobs are productive without this guarantee of job security.

[Khepera]

bump

Sounds fair to me.