Saturday, May 12, 2007
Et tu, Tufts?
Another university is cracking down on free speech, this time at Tufts University over a conservative student newspaper's depiction of Islam. Obviously, it's discouraging to see yet another one of these PC show-trial incidents unfold. But it's also discouraging to see how conservatives rally around the young ones without acknowledging that, well, what was said was in fact intellectually immature and meant to offend. Keep in mind the same conservative Tufts newspaper recently ran a carol called 'O Come All Ye Black Folk.' Can anyone really defend that? I'm sure some conservatives have tried. ... The really discouraging thing about these now predictable showdowns between righty student newspapers and Crucible-like lefty judges is that the same students often graduate to the National Review and Nation etc. -- and the never-ending left-right-paradigm feud continues, polluting the nation's political discourse in the process. ...
Another university is cracking down on free speech, this time at Tufts University over a conservative student newspaper's depiction of Islam. Obviously, it's discouraging to see yet another one of these PC show-trial incidents unfold. But it's also discouraging to see how conservatives rally around the young ones without acknowledging that, well, what was said was in fact intellectually immature and meant to offend. Keep in mind the same conservative Tufts newspaper recently ran a carol called 'O Come All Ye Black Folk.' Can anyone really defend that? I'm sure some conservatives have tried. ... The really discouraging thing about these now predictable showdowns between righty student newspapers and Crucible-like lefty judges is that the same students often graduate to the National Review and Nation etc. -- and the never-ending left-right-paradigm feud continues, polluting the nation's political discourse in the process. ...
