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"A Harvard Law School committee announced plans yesterday to draft a speech code that would ban harassing, offensive language from the classroom... Harvard's Black Law Students Association and some faculty have been pressing since last spring for a speech code that would punish offending students and professors...
Yet {Alan}Dershowitz {noted constitutional law professor} incited even more fury after he challenged a member of the Black Law Students Association to be more specific after the student read a statement reiterating her group's support for a ''discrimination harassment policy'' that includes penalties.
''With all due respect, what you stated is extraordinarily abstract,'' Dershowitz said. After the student was not able to cite an example of offensive language that could be censured in a speech code, Dershowitz said of the proposal: ''That's like asking someone to first vote for censorship, and then figure out later what is censored. With all due respect, I find that statement unhelpful.''
His comments brought a stinging rebuke from another Harvard Law star, Kennedy, the author of the recent book ''Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'' Kennedy reprimanded Dershowitz for purportedly using the sort of insensitive language and tone that upset many students last spring. ''I don't think students should feel embarrassed to have to come back with a response,'' Kennedy told Dershowitz.
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Can you believe this crap? Outlawing language that makes people uncomfortable?
Outlawing criticism of Marxism?
-philw (surprised to find himself in bed with Dershowitz)
Harvard attempts to supress free speech
The whole thread (11 posts)
- Harvard attempts to supress free speech
- Unused words tend to fade away
- Learning to accommodate diversity.
- Sounds like a very healthy discussion. n/t (n/t)
- Oh what a can of worms the left has brought on itself with this whole "Political Correctness" movement.
- It sounds like the University of Chicago got it right...
- Harvard is rapidly going the way of the New York Times: Irrelevancy.
