Tuesday, April 19, 2005

And more in the name of free speech

Ad in UM's student paper called offensive - The Clarion-Ledger from tongue tied. It seems that if you disagree with the ad, it must be banned. Reading through the description, it seems that the ad might even offend a "right-of-Ivan-the-Terrible" type like me. But to ban it because it might "offend" someone and then have "faith in the students that we will not be set back too far" by something they disagree with, again bespeaks of the tyranny of the left.

Also, I wonder what a Director of Diversity Affairs does.

I guess the idea that the campus should be open to all qualified students, without consideration of race, origin, political leaning, religion or anyting else is too radical an idea. If the campus is truly open to ideas and the free interchange, then we have no need of the "diversity" bureaucracy so abundant on campuses today. That thought may well be considered hate speech and cause some of the tender young minds to require conselling.

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