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I learned about it yesterday by watching Fox News.
I was thinking of submitting a post about it in the Gulch; but as I was looking it up just now today, I spotted links stating that the university has removed the dictionary.
The university's president claims he did not know about the dictionary this week and is embarrassed by it.
I chose a link that revealed some of what was in the dictionary--
http://townhall.com/columnists/jackke...
which a private institution should respect, unless the speaker
is acting as an agent of that institution. . Yes, he spoke offensively.
but was it the college's business? . if a student is an agent, yes. -- j
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Moreover, his comments, if accurately reported, are indeed offensive. It also displayed a lack of awareness. "These hoodrat criminals in Baltimore need to be shipped off and exiled to the sahara desert,” he wrote. “Maybe then they’ll realize how much we provide for them (welfare, college tuition, Obama phone’s, medicare, etc.”
Subsidized cellphones, like stipend for the old landline, are part of the basic welfare (aid to families with dependent children) on the grounds that it is necessary to find work and hold a job. A telephone is a lifeline to emergency services, as well. In a nation with more phones than people, it is small cost -- and again goes back to the Reagan administration. (Snopes here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/...
Medicare has nothing to do with welfare. It is an entitled insurance policy, the premiums for which were deducted from wages, like Social Security. You do not need to be a "hoodrat" to enjoy the benefits. Ayn Rand did.
Slightly more white people are on welfare than other ethnic groups. For a breakdown of the statistics, see here: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/ic2/et/le...
Harry Vincent committed several lapses of judgment. He is not a martyr for freedom of speech.
If there is a free market in education, including some institutions that understand freedom of speech, then Harry should be able to take his business elsewhere. If there are not enough students at TCU to care about freedom of speech, then perhaps a lot of students should be taking their business elsewhere.
If I was a university president or dean elsewhere, I would contact Harry and invite him to join a campus that values free speech.