Freedom of Speech Under Attack at Tufts University

Freedom of Speech Under Attack at Tufts University

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[bujji537]

People who say that the Source is trying to ignore the content of the carol are foolish. Liberals are clearing pathetically incapable of recognizing satire. Looks like they got a taste of their own medicine with the New Yorker cover scandal. Were they racist and anti-Muslim for portraying Obama as they did? No? So neither is the Source.

[alexofsyrr]

It's a piece mocking affirmative action and Tufts policy regarding it. I don't see a problem. People need to thicken their skin a bit.

[sthenige1]

Why is it that people don't understand that the First Amendment only applies to the federal government preventing freedom of speech? A private institution that is publishing a magazine with its own money (as Tufts is doing with the Primary Source) can prevent that publication from saying whatever they want it to.

[ZetaLancer]

The "Christmas carol" didn't just bash affirmative action, it called out the specific number of black freshmen at the school and told them they did not deserve to be there. It also made some disparaging remarks about their character. Those were the biggest problems with it-- it launched attacks that reached a personal level to students.

Not saying whether that warrants any restrictions on the publication or not, but those are the facts of the case.

[THE1CALLEDJ]

The main reason why Tufts would close this paper is because the students represent that university.

These students are making juvenile and tasteless jokes, which may not be intended to be racist but are to others. In doing so they discredit the university as a whole. So to save face the school will kick them out.

They should spend more time writing and articulating the joke first.

If no one gets your joke it's not the audiences fault it's the comedians.

[NakanoHitori]

If you don't allow people to hear what is "racist" how are you suppose to get over though sensitive issues such as racism. People only find this stuff racist because they associate it with troubling things, but if we were to get past that troubling association we wouldn't have issues such as racism. Listen to most comedians these days, they say racist things and people laugh, they are trying to get past the barriers and that is what these kids are doing now, but in print.

[Nejjidragon]

They're right. Free speech works both ways. You can't go around waving liberal slogans everywhere then whine when conservatives write something that happens to offend you. No, I do not endorse the articles published themselves, but if we pick and choose who gets free speech, it's not really free speech, is it? It's picking and choosing who has the message that you like while you censor everyone else.

[DoxxoRoxxo]

Faux news fucking sucks.