27th May 2004, 12:47 PM
I think both ABF and ASM have trouble seperating repression of free speech from counter-free speech.
Again, everyone has a right to speak. No one has the right to be heard.
To clarify on the partisanship of the topic, if there are penalties against the students for their outburst, they deserve the punishment they get. They could have definitely found more polite ways of showing their displeasure with the liberal. But that is not the point at hand. Doctorow wasn't complaining about the students being rude to him, he claimed they were denying his right to free speech.
That is the topic of this thread, and it is the point I focused on: Whether or not his right to speak freely was denied. And, obviously, it was not.
Again, everyone has a right to speak. No one has the right to be heard.
To clarify on the partisanship of the topic, if there are penalties against the students for their outburst, they deserve the punishment they get. They could have definitely found more polite ways of showing their displeasure with the liberal. But that is not the point at hand. Doctorow wasn't complaining about the students being rude to him, he claimed they were denying his right to free speech.
That is the topic of this thread, and it is the point I focused on: Whether or not his right to speak freely was denied. And, obviously, it was not.
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