A free-speech advocate on television stated, with regards to Ward Churchill, that it is better to put up with speech of that kind rather than to draw a line across the First Amendment. He should have said “rather than move the line that is already across the First Amendment.”
That the University of Colorado administrators and the American Civil Liberties Union support this man is far from unexpected, but their argument of why is silly. These are the same types of people who gave us “speech codes” and “hate speech.”
I question whether Prof. Churchill would be receiving that much support if his hate were aimed at homosexuals or at other races, rather than the United States?
How does it go? Hate speech is tolerated so long as it is hatred of the right things?
Frank Phillips, Auburn
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