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[novapsyche]

What's the point in having the right to free speech if you're punished for exercising it?

"Churchill's defenders say the uproar over his remarks reflects the same kind of paranoia that drove Sen. Joseph McCarthy in his search for communist infiltrators in American society in the 1950s."

Precisely.

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land of the free

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Home of the scared shitless.

You can do what you want, as long as you do what you're told and shut your mouth.

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

freedom of speech (yeeeeeeah, boyyyyyyyy)... just watch what you say.

The one silver lining to this cloud is that if he does get fired, I have little doubt there will be no end of offers from talk radio for him to be a host...

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

He's tenured. I'll be shocked and awed if they manage to terminate him. I'd support his suit against the school.

[xterminal.livejournal.com]

I'll be shocked and awed if they manage to terminate him.

Indeed.

We live in interesting times, as the curse says.

[tay-en-pointe.livejournal.com]

funny.. we can burn the flag, or bras on TV. there was a time when we couldnt do that either.
no one seems to remember that.