I hope that members of the Chicago Maroon Editorial Board is not one of the classes of people whom it would be considered hate speech to offend or insult, because otherwise the forthcoming post would have to be, in the words of that esteemed editorial board, eradicated. Of all the inanity to come from this great journalistic institution, this is probably the stupidest. (Offense very much intended). Errors both moral and factual abound, and books could be written on why they are simply wrong. (Indeed, we are in luck: books have been written. See: On Liberty. Mill, John Stuart). The shoddy thinking comes right in the first paragraph. From the sages of the Maroon: We agree with this central idea—that the University must protect open discourse. However, this report lacks clarity on what constitutes effective and responsible discourse. The fallacy is obvious: protecting open and free discourse is antithetical to defining what is effective or responsible discourse. Responsible, I must ask, according to whom? The University? The panoply of social justice groups on campus? The college democrats? The college republicans? Or, God help us, the Maroon? While journalists are being murdered for offending certain groups, the Maroon Editorial Board is placing themselves, to borrow a favorite phrase of todays progressives, on the wrong side of history. Shameful.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:29:25 +0000
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