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Really, I know Fox can be bad, but can you find any coverage this on any other MSM site? It's not on CNN as of this writing, and this was all over MSM when it first went viral.
Is there something wrong with this message? That free speech sometimes offends? It's almost like freedom of speech has been bastardized into some "free from speech" replacement. I'd really like to know where everyone stands on this issue - free speech vs free from offensive speech. Which is more important, and why?
ABC, CNN, BBC and NBC all have a picture of Trump front and center and no mention of this story as I can tell. If this societal problem has gotten so bad, why aren't we talking about it? Does anyone here condone the students' behavior at Yale? Do you think the real world once they leave college will embrace such sentiment to appreciable effect? Would that be a good thing?
The BBC wouldn't consider there to be anything wrong with this I imagine. It seems a segment of your society is minded like most of ours when it comes to free speech and its not so difficult to understand why. Its difficult to defend someones right to an opinion when they are an asshat. Thats not the case here of course, its a ridiculously overblown reaction to almost nothing. I think the professors have a point, though I see nothing wrong with asking the student body to think before they act. Its in part a generational issue, though where you might expect the older generation to be the ones who offend without realising it, its actually they who spent their youths thinking about free speech and its importance where the younger generation have taken it entirely for granted and are basically years less mature than their counterparts were thirty years ago.
As for Fox managing to write a one page article that isn't completely partisan dross, I hesitate to award them a medal for managing to do their job on this rare occasion. Then having watched the embedded video it started autoplaying Bill O'Reilly which reminded me what a complete dick he is.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
Say what the masters want or there will be consequences.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
I was both surprised and impressed that Fox News took on this story. They used video of a crowd of students accosting the prof (or was it her husband, the other prof) and screaming profanities at him/her to make a point. In my opinion, those students are spoiled brats whose "comfort zone" is having everything made just perfect for them, and who are uncomfortable that something may get a little edgy. And this is Yale, a school that I have always thought of as very open minded and pro "thought." I guess I was wrong.
Oh yeah, and this was over "NOT" having strict limits on what students' Halloween costumes could be? WTF?