When you have a new students coming in every year, and others leaving, it’s not surprising that the leftist racists continue to be flummoxed by the bake sale. It always ties them up in knots of illogic, particularly when it’s the first time they’ve seen it.
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The next move should be free speech movement 2.0.
That would really stir things up.
Today, it’s “Free speech for me but not for thee.”
Today’s example via InstaPundit.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 26, 2011—A professor has been censored twice, reported to the “threat assessment team,” and threatened with criminal charges because of satirical postings on his office door. Campus police at the University of Wisconsin–Stout (UWS) censored theater professor James Miller’s poster depicting a quotation from actor Nathan Fillion’s character in the television series Firefly, and the police chief threatened Miller with criminal charges for disorderly conduct. After UWS censored his second poster, which stated, “Warning: Fascism,” Miller came to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help.
“Colleges and universities are supposed to foster brave and bold environments of freewheeling intellectual inquiry and expression. If a quote from a network science fiction show is a bridge too far, something has gone seriously wrong,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. “As both president of FIRE and a huge Firefly fan, I call on the chancellor of UW–Stout to rein in his overreaching administration and to restore both free speech and basic common sense.”
Relevant quote from “Serenity”: “I aim to misbehave.”
The quote featured in Miller’s poster is taken from la’s response to Simon in this exchange:
Simon: I’m trying to put this as delicately as I can… How do I know you won’t kill me in my sleep?
Mal: You don’t know me, son, so let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you’ll be awake. You’ll be facing me, and you’ll be armed.
The poster is here:
http://thefire.org/article/13587.html
Even if one hasn’t watched the show, one should be able to discern that this is Mal’s fancy way of saying that he will kill only to combat an aggressor wielding deadly force.
In that bake sale article, someone suggested that the Asian cookie be priced at $3.00.
Blooger and econ prof Brad DeLong teaches at Berkeley. I wonder if he’ll drop in on the bake sale.
How is it they don’t understand that if speech doesn’t offend somebody, it doesn’t need protection?
I absolutely love firefly. It can never come back.
Doesn’t Carl Pham work at Berkeley?
On the Firefly poster, I just watched that episode yesterday. The moment is pretty tense, but as mentioned, context isn’t needed to comprehend it. It’s a long winded way of saying, “I only kill those who threaten me” or “I kill only a clear and present danger.” Then again, the first part does need context. Except the paradox is the first words are very fitting to those that feel the simple existence of the poster is threatening.
Leftism is the most perfect system ever devised for screening out people who have a sense of humor.