Targeting campus speech codes

Creators' Syndicate / TownHall.com ^ | August 16, 2003 | David Limbaugh

[buzzyboop]

Hallelujah! Someone in authority is finally fighting back against political correctness. The Bush Administration has warned campus thought-control bullies that it is monitoring their imperious tactics.

The Washington Times' George Archibald reports that Gerald A. Reynolds, assistant secretary for civil rights has sent a long overdue brush-back letter to college and university officials concerning their odious and oppressive campus speech codes.

These codes, which are as un-American as they sound, prohibit certain kinds of "offensive" speech, such as "any language that may be deemed sexist, racist or homophobic, or may be found offensive by any minority group." Some have estimated that as many as 90 percent of American universities have adopted such codes in one form or another.

The stated purpose of these regulations is to foster a peaceful educational environment by preventing "harassment" of certain protected groups. But this phony rationale is no longer going to fly under the Bush Administration.

[buzzyboop]

The first word says it all. Ok, I'm up at this hour, and this is a cheap post that someone else would have taken, but Halllujah! anyway. Way to go David!

[Humidston]

Bump for later. Excellent news and about time!

[freepatriot32]

bump

[Guillermo]

How intolerant!

[StriperSniper]

My only problem with this column is that by calling them misfits,

They are misfits with badges of authority.

he is insulting the Misfits!

[rhema]

[from the column] . . .In reality speech codes are merely an excuse to justify censorship of certain disfavored student speech. The Times' Archibald quotes Wendy McElroy, a research fellow for the Independent Institute of Oakland, California as saying, "University campuses are strongholds of left-liberalism where constitutionally protected rights, such as freedom of speech and religion, are routinely violated." Most victims, McElroy points out, are "students who are male, white, conservative, openly Christian or from affluent families."

And who have the temerity to stand up for their First Amendment rights. May their kind increase.

[slimer]

The stated purpose of these regulations is to foster a peaceful educational environment by preventing "harassment" of certain protected groups.

This is as far as I got. The words "certain protected groups" insinuates that they are "selectively protecting" particular groups. What this means to me is that they are protecting special interest minorities at the expense others. This is total BS.

[Hobsonphile]

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