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Hate Speech Hysteria at the University of Oklahoma
American Thinker ^ | December 17, 2016 | David Deming

Posted on 12/17/2016 6:48:37 AM PST by Kaslin

In March of 2015, people across the U.S. were shocked to see a video showing two members of the University of Oklahoma SAE fraternity chanting racial epithets. The reaction of the OU administration was swift and draconian. The offending students were expelled without due process and the entire SAE house was immediately shuttered. Legal scholars, writing in the Washington Post and USA Today, described the university's actions as a violation of the student's First Amendment rights. As Eugene Volokh noted, "racist speech is constitutionally protected." Solely as a result of this incident, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) named OU as one of the ten worst colleges in the U.S. for free speech. Greg Lukianoff, President of FIRE, singled out OU as the most intolerant of all institutions because its actions were taken as a signal by other universities that they could "toss freedom of speech and basic fairness out of the window."

Racial tensions on the OU campus have not subsided. They remain high, and if anything, are now more pronounced than before the 2015 SAE incident. The campus is in the grip of a collective hysteria. The largest single factor driving campus tensions is the student newspaper, the OU Daily. The Daily is perhaps the worst newspaper in the country, college or otherwise. In recent years it has degenerated into a publication entirely devoted to promoting radical left-wing ideology. The newspaper staff sees racism, homophobia, islamophobia, xenophobia, inequity, and social injustice everywhere. In 2014, the OU Daily became the laughingstock of the nation for an article claiming that nude-colored women's underwear was racist.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: education; leftismoncampus; oklahoma
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To: Sequoyah101

HEY WATCH IT MAN! The only time we have a church split is when OU and the Razorbacks play.

Wife’s niece graduated OU.
Our daughter graduated UofA.
Other daughter graduated Northeastern State University, Tahlequah.
My niece graduated Texas A&M!

Me? I graduated Oklahoma Farrier’s College, Sperry.

When Game day arrives I head for the woods!


41 posted on 12/17/2016 8:44:16 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Sequoyah101

I can’t knock OU. Despite its liberal bent, I received a good education in the Geology department and made a good living and an opportunity to work and travel around the world due to that education.


42 posted on 12/17/2016 8:47:22 AM PST by Indoil
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To: boycott

Never? No price to heavy? Even after fulfilling the demands of all the various penalties, public service hours and punishment?


43 posted on 12/17/2016 9:57:12 AM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxists coming,... infinitum.)
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To: Buttons12
"How did they come by such a messed up university?"

Libtard David Boren is in charge. Simple as that.
44 posted on 12/17/2016 10:27:23 AM PST by dezrat
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To: boycott

She attacked him first. But an open handed knock-you-on-your-@$$ shove would have been more appropriate than punching her out.

And even more appropriate would have been using hands and forearms to simply block her strikes and shoves away, without retaliating. She’d come away with bruised arms and wrists and maybe rethink assaulting guys.


45 posted on 12/17/2016 10:50:14 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: RitaOK

Yeah, never.

It’s a privilege to play college football. So many of these guys are used to getting to do most anything they want because they’re great athletes. They need to get the message loud and clear.

It’s just like someone on an academic scholarship. If they don’t uphold their end of the deal, they lose their scholarship. Give the scholarship to someone that does things the right way.


46 posted on 12/17/2016 11:01:46 AM PST by boycott (S)
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To: Indoil

One of two departments known to have produced useful graduates as well as most doctors in Oklahoma.

I’m sure there are others I have not met.


47 posted on 12/17/2016 1:11:50 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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