Is it Dangerous Don's right to be rude, crude, and hateful?

christiefan915 said:
Should students have a say-so in who gets to speak? What if the majority says "no" to a speaker?
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Not really, a part of being in college is being exposed to ideas and thoughts of others. Shutting down people because their political views do not fit the standard professor's is a bad idea in such an environment.
 
Damocles said:
Not really, a part of being in college is being exposed to ideas and thoughts of others. Shutting down people because their political views do not fit the standard professor's is a bad idea in such an environment.
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Have you shared these sentiments with the administration at Bob Jones University, Daddy?
 
Damocles said:
Not really, a part of being in college is being exposed to ideas and thoughts of others. Shutting down people because their political views do not fit the standard professor's is a bad idea in such an environment.
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We've seen it here locally at Cal Berkeley where ironically the free speech movement started in the '60's and now today it's all about restricting speech.

Can you imagine having the entrepreneur program for instance wanting to invite Mark Cuban to speak and being required to get a majority approval from students?

Politically Ben Shapiro is the new conservative hot speaker that likes to talk about this issue on campuses and student protestors literally try to stop him from speaking using force. It's crazy
 
Damocles said:
Not really, a part of being in college is being exposed to ideas and thoughts of others. Shutting down people because their political views do not fit the standard professor's is a bad idea in such an environment.
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I agree with this, but it seems to only be an issue when Berkley does it, but not when Liberty does it.....? Why is that?
 
Jarod said:
I agree with this, but it seems to only be an issue when Berkley does it, but not when Liberty does it.....? Why is that?
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It's happening at schools all over the country. Even President Obama commented on it. It all goes hand in hand, preventing people from speaking, trigger words, safe spaces etc.

College is going from a place of free speech to a place where people don't want to be exposed to anything they disagree with.
 
cawacko said:
It's happening at schools all over the country. Even President Obama commented on it. It all goes hand in hand, preventing people from speaking, trigger words, safe spaces etc.

College is going from a place of free speech to a place where people don't want to be exposed to anything they disagree with.
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The culture is like that, they get upset if you say something they don't like, they accuse you of trying to force them to be PC.
 
It's funny that the cons aren't hailing Obama for ridiculing PC on campus in his Rutgers address.

Why is that?
 
Jarod said:
The (American) culture is like that, they get upset if you say something they don't like, they accuse you of trying to force them to be PC.
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Ok, I'm not following how this relates to what I wrote about what's happening on college campuses today.
 
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