Kathianne
11-19-2015, 01:00 AM
About time:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/11/18/campus-speech-yale-missouri-race-freedom-editorials-debates/76005634/
<section id="module-position-Olk2q0VQBVk" class="storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module story-story-headline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.92px;">Campus adults, protect free speech: Our view</section><section id="module-position-Olk2q0V31GE" class="storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module story-story-byline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.92px;">The Editorial Board (http://www.usatoday.com/staff/2421/the-editorial-board/)6:27 p.m. EST November 18, 2015
</section>Students are right to protest for diversity, but First Amendment protects offensive speech.
When student protests and the resignation of the university president revealed deep racial problems at the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/University of Missouri" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">University of Missouri</culink> last week, it seemed at first like a singular event.
Since then, it’s become increasingly clear that similar tensions are raging on campuses from Connecticut to California. Students are right to speak out for diversity and sensitivity to racial and gender concerns. But too often, this has been happening in ways that trample freedom of speech. It’s bad enough that college students don’t seem to grasp how broad the nation's protections for free speech are. Worse is when the adults responsible for running universities ignore what they surely know — that the First Amendment protects just about all speech.
Consider the recent controversy at Yale, sparked by the mere potential of offensive<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Halloween costume" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">Halloween costumes</culink>.
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Have to throw this part in, yay!:
A few universities are fighting these attacks by forcefully affirming devotion to free speech — even speech that some find “offensive, unwise, immoral or wrong-headed (http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/16/free-speech-campus-university-of-chicago-first-amendment-editorials-debates/72207112/),” as the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/University of Chicago" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">University of Chicago</culink> put it in a statement in January. Students battling bias today might recall that civil rights activists exercised freedom of speech to knock down racial barriers and change the nation’s laws and attitudes. Back then, many looked on the activists' speech as offensive and answered with bats, fire hoses and guns.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/11/18/campus-speech-yale-missouri-race-freedom-editorials-debates/76005634/
<section id="module-position-Olk2q0VQBVk" class="storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module story-story-headline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.92px;">Campus adults, protect free speech: Our view</section><section id="module-position-Olk2q0V31GE" class="storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module story-story-byline-module" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.92px;">The Editorial Board (http://www.usatoday.com/staff/2421/the-editorial-board/)6:27 p.m. EST November 18, 2015
</section>Students are right to protest for diversity, but First Amendment protects offensive speech.
When student protests and the resignation of the university president revealed deep racial problems at the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/University of Missouri" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">University of Missouri</culink> last week, it seemed at first like a singular event.
Since then, it’s become increasingly clear that similar tensions are raging on campuses from Connecticut to California. Students are right to speak out for diversity and sensitivity to racial and gender concerns. But too often, this has been happening in ways that trample freedom of speech. It’s bad enough that college students don’t seem to grasp how broad the nation's protections for free speech are. Worse is when the adults responsible for running universities ignore what they surely know — that the First Amendment protects just about all speech.
Consider the recent controversy at Yale, sparked by the mere potential of offensive<culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Halloween costume" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">Halloween costumes</culink>.
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Have to throw this part in, yay!:
A few universities are fighting these attacks by forcefully affirming devotion to free speech — even speech that some find “offensive, unwise, immoral or wrong-headed (http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/16/free-speech-campus-university-of-chicago-first-amendment-editorials-debates/72207112/),” as the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/University of Chicago" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 98, 94) !important;">University of Chicago</culink> put it in a statement in January. Students battling bias today might recall that civil rights activists exercised freedom of speech to knock down racial barriers and change the nation’s laws and attitudes. Back then, many looked on the activists' speech as offensive and answered with bats, fire hoses and guns.
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