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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
How about "the blacks are inferior" or "hitler had some good ideas"? I think that colleges have to draw the line somewhere and if "gays are an abomination" is one the lol ur expelled side of the line that's fine with me.
I, personally, hate the idea of students being expelled or even punished for speech; even idiotic speech. If someone wants to say "Hitler had some good ideas", let them. Then let people rip their idea to shreds. How do you think bad arguments are going to do when faced with better arguments?
Even good ideas can be made better by being exposed to disagreement. If you make no space for disagreement, then you make no space for growth or real learning.
The problem is that once you start punishing people for speech you don't like, you implicitly allow others to punish for speech they don't like. Maybe they label me calling "intelligent design" idiocy as hate speech and punish me accordingly.