EDITORIAL: Free speech on campus

Big deal. What about the unwritten speech codes? The only people in America allowed to be negatively referred to are white men. It wasn't pieces of paper that allowed the Nazis to control German society, rather it was the belief (factually correct or not) one was always in company of a Nazi that led to complicity and abandonment of rights.

Big deal. Our campus' have already succeeded in their main goal, to brainwash generations of Americans into thinking that the left wing socialistic ideology is the ideal over capitalism. Young republicans are a rarer and rarer thing, and more and more Americans are blindly accepting of ideas such as Government healthcare, government bailouts. The government has to protect us, feed us, make sure we have a place to live, provide low fuel prices, and give inspirational speeches to boot. Sorry guys, but the cat is already out of the bag. Give it another 50 years and we will be calling each other "comrade."

"What about the unwritten speech codes? " By, the way, how exactly are you going to get unwritten speech codes overturned in court? Get the written unconstitutional laws thrown out and then sue when your rights are violated for "unwritten codes." It is a big deal and a huge step in the right direction. Another thing, pieces of papers called ballots allowed the Nazis to take control - the Germans handed over their rights.

Universities are afraid of being sued. Most of them are more concerned with protecting their endowments then trying to regulate speech. Fear convinces you to give up your principles. Object lesson for us all. It's just radio talk show drivel that universities have brainwashed generations of Americans into socialists. What nonsense. I just saw a someone who collected books by right wing talk show hosts went on a killing rampage to eliminate liberals in a church. Congrats guys. You've finally got people doing what you've been preaching for years. That liberals were enemies and subhuman fit only for elimination. Your fascist forbearers would be so proud.

Message to kc. You guys have been getting away with this crap for years. The chickens are finally coming home to roost regarding your despicable twisting of political correctness. What goes around comes around my friend.

KC, I agree with your first point, for sure there is at least some motivation to avoid being sued, if not the main motivation. But to your second point, it's plainly laughable to suggest that there isn't a MAJOR left wing bias in education. Not just college, but prior to college as well. Heard about the ROTC being kicked out of Harvard? Read <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8427-2005Mar28.html" target="_new">the following Wash Post article</A> from a few years back and then tell me whether these bush deranged liberals aren't trying to tilt their teachings just a little. I mean seriously, I can be honest about the failings of the Bush admin, why would you be so dishonest about something that even the Washington Post agrees is an issue?

Apologies to kc. What I meant to say was that the universities and academia in general have been getting away with this crap, not "you guys".

At least the PC crowd will be the first to loose their heads when the muslims take over

We need to close the so-called "universities". They are no longer universities. When these institutions failed to protect voices and ideologies that are "traditional" or conservative, and instituted a left-wing-only agenda they gave up their right to exist. Universities were meant to be bastions of free speech, on all sides. Academic Freedom, for both students and teachers, was meant to be sacrosanct (see Galileo). Some private colleges in the US still are true to the title of university, but all public diploma-mills have lost their mission. This is not about endowments, kc. This is about a complete ideological take-over of these so-called places of "higher learning". I would not trust ANY of the research coming out of public universities, in particular, due to the pressure to make it conform with "progressive" ideology, political correctness, or other left-wing mumbo-jumbo. Without a strict adherance to Academic Freedoms for all, research and academic findings must be condemned, vilified, and thrown out as suspect and unreliable. Free speech and Academic Freedom were never meant to protect the party-line. In fact, they were meant to protect those very ideas that might be labeled "intimidating, hostile, or offensive", and usually for political purposes. As the Supreme Court said, "No one has a monopoly on the truth." That has treble significance when applied to the now-established extreme left-wing dictators on our campuses.