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"Bo Raxo" <crimenewscenter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Bert Hyman" <bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > crimenewscenter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bo Raxo) wrote in
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> >> "NapalmHeart" <olsonfamNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> It seems that free speech is not respected at Emanuel College. I
> >>> have to wonder how many other rights they don't care for on that
> >>> campus.
> >>
> >> Apparently you think "free speech" means you can say anything you
> >> want at work and your employer can't fire you for it. How insane.
> >
> > However, members of the chattering cl***** have 'til now always
> > sup****ted their idea of "academic freedom", which allows professors
> > and instructors to say or do anything in their cl*****, regardless of
> > how outrageous they might be, without fear of repercussion.
> >
> > Why the change of heart for this single incident?
> >
>
>
> There's a big difference between "say anything" and "do anything",
you're
> mistaken in confusing the two. There have always been limitations on
> acceptable behavior. Recreating something that traumatic seems to cross
the
> line for these people. Personally, I think it's silly they fired him
for
> that. But the first poster was as I pointed out confusing free speech
with
> employment, you're conflating academic freedom with some kind of
absolute
> freedom.
>
> Have a professor argue in favor of, say, child molesting and child
> ****ography, take a guess as to how long he or she would be employed.
> Sleeping with a student will get you fired in many places, the notion
that
> they could "do anything" under the rubric of academic freedom is
ridiculous.
> I don't know where you went to college, I went to the most liberal place
on
> earth (UC Berkeley), and instructors did have restrictions on what they
> could and could not do. If they'd spouted, say, racist views, they
would be
> headed for the door.
Pedophilia? Racism? ****ography? You find these to be a fair
comparison?
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All saints have a past--all sinners have a future
Ronald Reagan
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