I hate having to defend racist, but that code shouldn't be able to strip individuals of their rights.
steeped in limitations on speech? aren't these the same institutions that go miles out of their way to defend loony professors when they say outlandish and incendiary crap? Double standard is stupid. Free speech is cool, as long as it fits the larger narrative.
in particular their right to say something dumbshit in private. it'd be one thing if they were shouting this in their classes.
Also, it would have been hysterical if the fraternity owned both their house and the land it sits on (some fraternities do, but not many). All this would be transpiring and OU would have no means of kicking them out of their house.
Institutions of higher learning stifling free speech, even the dumbest comments, seems counterintuitive and makes me uneasy.
Bingo! Turning a blind eye or even condoning the far left agendas of their profs. What a fine example they set
When it rattles cages and only then do they do so to appease select parties It's the arbitrary approach (to our Constitutional rights) as a whole that I find most disturbing
I've seen a tenured professor get fired for uttering the word "*****" in the context of Victorian morality and sexuality, a class he had taught for 20 years. There was a time loony professors were protected and tenure meant something, but it is past.
This isn't a left vs right issue. It's way bigger than that, the shitty part is having to defend the rights of a racist. That's the shitty part about freedom.
I don't think their right to freedom of speech is being violated in any way. The 1st amendment doesn't mean nothing can happen to you for what you say, it means the government will not infringe upon your right or ability to say it. Otherwise, we should all be suing google right now for not being able to type swear words on Tenny's forum. But google, or a university, is not the government.
