Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Offensive words or double-standard?

Evan Coyne Maloney of Brain Terminal exposes a protected speech double-standard at Bucknell University:
On August 29th, the Bucknell University Conservatives Club sent out a campus-wide e-mail announcing an upcoming speaker: Major John Krenson, who had been in Afghanistan "hunting terrorists." Those two words--"hunting terrorists"--resulted in three students being called to Bucknell's Office of the President by Kathy Owens, the Executive Assistant to the President.

When the students arrived, Ms. Owens held up a print-out of the offending e-mail and said "we have a problem here," telling the students that the words "hunting terrorists" were offensive. For the next half-hour, the three students were given a lecture on word choice.

Oh, GIVE ME A BREAK!!! Perhaps Ms. Owens would've been happier with the phrase "coddling freedom-fighters."

Of course, other speech that some find offensive is perfectly okay at Bucknell.

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