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Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View PostAnd what sort of 'academic value' is offered in:
- College spots
- College stores
- Fraternities/sororities
By the logic you present here, we should rid these things from every university campus, correct?
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostThe speakers universities host should provide some academic value. The right to free speech does not include the right to have universities host your lecture.
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostThe American people do not have a right to have a university host a lecture for anyone with an opinion. Any given speaker welcomes to lecture should provide some academic value.Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postthe university has a right to host whoever they want to. or allow anyone to speak if they wish. universities generally want to expose their students to a wide range of opinions, politics, and social agendas. or at least they SHOULD want that. And tolerance, what most liberals claim they want, is allowing others to believe and say what they want, even though they don't agree with them.
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostJust because someone or something has a right to do something doesn't mean they ought to do that thing. There's a difference between a university exposing students to different types of literary criticism or schools of economic thought and giving a platform to a flat earther or white supremacist. Tolerance has limits.
You said, "The right to free speech does not include the right to have universities host your lecture."
Now it's "ought"
Whether they "ought" to do something is a completely different matter, and it is their decision to make. Not yours. That is what "rights" are all about.
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[QUOTE=Psychic Missile;292244 giving a platform to a flat earther or white supremacist. Tolerance has limits.[/QUOTE]You might have earned some sympathy had you added "Lysenkoist Environmentalist or murderous Black Panther"Near the Peoples' Republic of Davis, south of the State of Jefferson (Suspended between Left and Right)
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostWhat academic value did his speech offer?That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostI'm specifically talking about universities hosting speakers. You do have a point, but that's outside the scope of this thread."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Whatever happened to the old saying, "I disagree with what you are saying, but I'll defend to my death your right to say it"?Last edited by Littlejoe; 02-15-2016, 07:07 PM."What has the Church gained if it is popular, but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?" - A.W. Tozer
"... there are two parties in Washington, the stupid party and the evil party, who occasionally get together and do something both stupid and evil, and this is called bipartisanship." - Everett Dirksen
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