Bad Reactions to W&L ?

ariesathena
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:45:35 +0000

While I don’t doubt that any private university has the right to ban Confederate flags, I’m too libertarian to really like that idea. The solution to “bad” speech is more speech. Deeply uncomfortable with any administrative body telling people what types of speech are socially acceptable, especially in an academic setting. Universities will defend people who say that the US engineered the 9/11 plot or that the people who died deserved to die; if they can stomach that, they can stomach a Southern flag, which can at least be debatably benign.