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Although I disagree with the protesters, would not silencing them also be shutting down free speech?
Free speech comes with some basic responsibilities.....baseless ad hominum attacks don't fall under that category while simple courtesy and civility do.
If the kid that called him a racist was one of my children, I'd pull him out of school and take him to the recruiting station immediately. There would be a more valuable lesson he could learn there than at Columbia.
Although I disagree with the protesters, would not silencing them also be shutting down free speech?
You may have missed this part of what I said as well:
Universities should not be involved in military activities,” Sociology Professor Emeritus Herbert Gans told The Post. “Columbia should come out against spending $300 billion a year on unnecessary wars.”
Fair enough. We won't jeer you or call you names for expressing your opinion.
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in the end it's the soldiers that do the killing. If they just refused to do it, there'd be no war. to hell with them, we don't need war
But they're living up to the oath they took and don't deserve the blame, put the blame squarely on the politicians who start the often unnecessary wars, not those who do a job they swore they would.
No one forced students to attend the presentation. If they do not agree they do not have to attend or could protest outside without interrupting the invited speaker.
Perhaps people just don't have any sense of manners; but, when you invite someone to be your guest you do not ambush them when they accept the invitation.
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Free speech comes with some basic responsibilities.....baseless ad hominum attacks don't fall under that category while simple courtesy and civility do.
I must've missed all the applicable rules in the Bill of Rights, care to point them out?
Maybe you can negotiate with those that make war upon us.
Yeah, that'll show them....
There is a reason they hate you.
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