All of the media attention is on the moron “seventh-year human rights student Arun Smith” who tore down a student initiated “Free Speech Wall” at Carleton University but overlooked is this tidbit from Triston Hopper of the National Post:
The only comment that verged into anti-gay territory was a scrawl reading “traditional marriage is awesome.”
According to Mr. CoKehyeng, the four-word phrase prompted a visit from Ryan Flannagan, the university’s director of student affairs.
“He saw that it wasn’t inciting hate speech at all, so he let that one slide,” said Mr. CoKehyeng.
But what didn’t get a look at from the school official was:
“Harper is a douche.” (see here)
No one filed a complaint and of course Flannagan must not have seen it right?
January 22, 2013 at 9:30 PM
CAUT in the act of censorship and selective breeding of human thought on university campus. To bad they weren’t as supportive of academic freedom as they purport.
January 22, 2013 at 9:31 PM
“seventh-year human rights student Arun Smith” …..W T F !!!???? Oh well, freeloading by any other name….
January 23, 2013 at 12:03 AM
Kudos to Mr. CoKehyeng. Much blood was shed to preserve the right to express your thoughts and feelings. Keep up the good work! How cowardly that many academics want to stifle differing opinions and substitute empty platitudes instead. How Marxist of them.
January 23, 2013 at 3:49 AM
Yeah, we’re all shocked by this I’m sure. I wish O’Malley and others were around when this was happening.
January 23, 2013 at 5:44 AM
carleton, a veritable bastion of ignorance.
January 23, 2013 at 6:53 AM
Our universities have devolved into adult daycare centers for emotionally challenged adults, or so it appears. Progressives poison everything they touch, my opinion.
January 23, 2013 at 9:36 AM
This reminds one of the CHRC apparatchik who stated that Freedom of speech was an American concept, that his commission gave it little value.
Unfortunately he is far from alone in sharing that viewpoint, particularly in Canadian institutions of higher education.
January 23, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Can anyone explain why we continue to subsidise these cesspools of indoctrination?
January 23, 2013 at 7:45 PM
My daughter has just been accepted to Carleton for next fall. Have to rethink where she should attend school perhaps. Then again it seems like all universities in Canada are like that these days. Scary!