College Student Banned For Exercising Freedoim Of Speech
Man, you can no longer be a nonconformist like back late 60s and early 70s when I went to college, man.
Those intolerant nonconformists have taken over, man.
Think you still the man with freedom of speech?
Hey, man, its their way or the highway, man.
Those intolerant nonconformists have taken over, man.
Think you still the man with freedom of speech?
Hey, man, its their way or the highway, man.
--Ronald Reagan
Right again, Mr. Reagan. Right again.
~Sigh~
It concerns a student who was fired recently from the official campus newspaper, The Michigan Daily, for writing "a bitingly funny satire of trigger warnings, microaggressions and institutional bias against the “left-handyd” for the University of Michigan’s conservative paper, The Review". So, you know, it's about freedom of the press, man,
The story itself about the dismissal and the college paper's "reasoning" is interesting (and abhorrent). But for some comic relief, follow the link to the student's actual satirical article. It is so, to borrow a phrase from '68 "right on". I cried laughing.
BTW, allosaur, your comments are humorous and accurate for the most part, but back in '68 at U of M those nonconformist "righties" were as hated then as they are today. In that sense U of M was way ahead of its time. (U of M was the location of the founding of the SDS in 1960, by, among others, Tom Hayden.
Anyway, the link:
http://collegeinsurrection.com/2014/12/m...
A nonconformist student in Alabama during, say, 1970, would be a lefty.
His views at, say, the University of Alabama would be tolerated by a professor, though his anti-war demonstration would have rocks thrown at it by other students. (This happened to a brother of mine).
Unlike my brother, such a somewhat tolerated lefty may become an intolerant PC police professor of the here and now.
That's what I was trying to say . . . my experiences based on locations where yankee yours ain't.
My primary point was to present a contemporary incident that was very similar to your posting: a violation of free speech by an intolerant PC college of the Lefty variety, of which there are far too many.
My reference to U of M at the time was only to emphasize that, as you pointed out, those intolerant non-conformists who have taken over had their roots in a minority (no pun intended) of Leftist campuses back in the '60's and '70's (see some of Obama's mentors) and are now the most intolerant ones, though many other colleges now share the Left-wing intolerance born then.
I can tell you that in most other colleges in Michigan or anywhere else I can think of from that era, a non-conformist Lefty would have been treated the same way as your example of the University of Alabama anti-war protestor. e.g., Kent State in the great state of Ohio.
I just thought there was an innocent misunderstanding.
We're cool.