The Tampa Tribune published a very strong editorial against the UF administration’s actions in today’s paper. To date, it is the strongest indictment against the lunacy of saying the Law School Republicans should apologize for stating the truth. Here is an excerpt:
For the sake of diversity, the University of Florida threw water on free speech. For the sake of political correctness, the university demanded an apology from students who posted fliers about a movie on radical Islam. Now for the sake of the university’s reputation, Patricia Telles-Irvin, the overly sensitive vice president of student affairs, should go. [...]
And it’s distressing that a vice president would so easily sacrifice a protected constitutional right for the sake of diversity. Law professor Steven Willis, faculty advisor for the Law School Republicans, who sponsored the film, clarified her lapse in judgment. “Your arguments about ‘diversity’ and ‘responsibility’ and ‘divisiveness’ are irrelevant to that fundamental issue: The actions are protected speech and you have no right – in your “official” capacity – to censure them, either before or after the fact. Indeed, you have the obligation not to do so,” he said.
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