Posted on 08/04/2015 5:42:19 AM PDT by markomalley
All it took was 140 characters for Texas Christian University to suspend a conservative student who posted a series of social networking posts that insulted the Islamic State, the Baltimore rioters and Mexicans.
TCU banned Harry Vincent from most campus activities, ordered him to perform 60 hours of community service and attend a diversity training class.
The 19-year-old, who is a member of the College Republicans and the Young Americans for Freedom, said he was told by the university that his conservative views were “inappropriate.”
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Doubleplusungood.
I smell a lawsuit.
TCU should move its campus to CA. It certainly does not honor Texas to take our First Amendment right of freedom of speech from its students. Shame on you, TCU!
Hillsdale college should give this kid a scholarship
Dear Texas, you have a cancer.
Folks who want to push back against the cultural marxists in academe might want to support FIRE. They're pretty effective when they can weigh in.
TCU...come on, don’t make me write you off. Kid should drop. Take his expensive tuition elsewhere
Who is paying whom here? The kid is paying for his education (and boy is he getting one), and TCU is his employee in that regard, not the other way around. I’d be willing to bet TCU has policies in place that allow for minority students to speak out against whites, or GLBT against straights, with no repercussions. I’d tell them to pound sand and await contact from my attorney.
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You give up your Constitutional rights when you enroll in a private school? They take federal loan money, right?
Good Lord, that is straightup reeducation camp stuff there.
They should also drop “Christian” from their name, since they have rejected Christ in favor of Marx. “Was Marx crucified for you, or were you baptized in the name of Marx?”—to paraphrase 1 Corinthians 1:13 in part.
Although the TCU is a facist organization, this guy is somewhat sophomoric in his langauge. Don’t get me wrong, he should not be punished, but he doesn’t deserve a scholarship.
I got one question for the university what right does it have to dictate what he puts on a Facebook page
Because only white people can be racist
“The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.”
- Voltaire.
It’s not what he said or how dumb he said it, it’s the fact that he has the right to say it unless the college has a restraint clause governing private use of social media by every student
Those who scream about “tolerance” the most always end up being the least tolerant of others.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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