Harry now knows he doesn't belong at TCU.
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.

If we can not speak our minds on any subject, call out what we feel is right or wrong or express ourselves in any way...how in hell can we have a conversation never mind 'Evolve' a conversation and learn from each other? It is the essence of 'Conscious' Humanity to adapt to knew knowledge...Many do not and many more do not want us to adapt and ascend to a higher level of awareness.

It is a private school they can do as they like. Not surprising though.

Well, it's not a government school. If you go there,
you are bound by their rules. But perhaps they
misrepresented themselves as an educational ins-
titution before the student went there, so maybe he
is entitled to sue them for breach of contract. I
certainly do not advocate his caving in and re-
turning. I advocate his boycotting them in the
future, and that his whole family and neighbors
should do the same thing.

I find this disturbing.

While I agree that a private institution has a right to set its in-house rules, I think that the fact that people are willing to tolerate, and even support, suppression of opinion is a bad sign. What ever happened to,"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?

Why is it more important to TCU to be politically correct than to support free speech?

Jan

If this is a private university then they are entitled to have what standards they like. Though they may still be in breach of contract if they never told the victim about those standards.

In any case conservatives now know never to go there. I don't think the school will live this idiocy down.

Pretty much every tax-funded university in the country shares the same bad policies (and the same fake-rape kangaroo courts, too), so there's not much in the way of alternatives.

I don't agree that the guy's comments were out of line, except "beaner". And Social Security/Medicare are welfare; their "premiums" don't come close to paying for them.

Check out the University of New Hampshire Bias Free Dictionary.
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...

TCU is a private institution. As when visiting any business or home, you adhere to the conduct expected by your host.

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.