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originally posted by Knibblet from http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=18&t=8959#120796
I'm tired off all the poor baby students on all sides. You cannot censor your opponent without endangering yourself. I don't care what your personal beliefs are, you should show everyone respect and allow them to speak. Listening is not endorsing. This is usually the most effective way to allow a moron to prove themselves moronic.

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excerpted from http://www.aclu.org/StudentsRights/StudentsRights.cfm?ID=9004&c=159
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Many universities, under pressure to respond to the concerns of those who are the objects of hate, have adopted codes or policies prohibiting speech that offends any group based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.

That's the wrong response, well-meaning or not. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content. Speech codes adopted by government-financed state colleges and universities amount to government censorship, in violation of the Constitution. And the ACLU believes that all campuses should adhere to First Amendment principles because academic freedom is a bedrock of education in a free society.

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excerpted from "Dispatches from the Culture Wars" 02-26-05 post at http://www.stcynic.com/blog/archives/2005/02/alabama_student.php
At the same time that wannabe satrap Gerald Allen has been conspiring to kill free thought with his bill to ban all books and plays that mention homosexuality, the University of Alabama Faculty Senate has passed a resolution calling on restrictions on "hate speech" at that university. This is as good an opportunity as any to point out that threats to free speech do not come exclusively from the right; the left is equally zealous, in many cases, to punish those who speak ill of protected minorities. Nat Hentoff wrote of this phenomenon brilliantly in his book Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee. The actions of the faculty senate in Alabama were prompted by the performance of a comedian who apparently said some things that some on the campus found offensive. And rather than just dealing with the fact that some people have offensive ideas, or merely exercising their right to speak their mind in response to the offense, some on the campus decided that censorship was the proper response.

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Thankfully, the Alabama Student Senate have decided to give their professors a lesson in free speech. That group just passed a resolution, also unanimously, that strongly repudiates the faculty's attempts to play Torquemada. In doing so, they appeal to the words of Thomas Jefferson: "Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." Perhaps it's time for the students and teachers to change positions. The students have learned the lessons of history that the teachers have failed at.

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Originally posted by Anarko:
Attacks on capitalism, gun control, reverence for Europeans, a greater concern for dogs than human beings, and now a war on free speech. OMG, liberals are becoming more and more hitlerian.

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