Sitting here at the moment listening to an interview with Michael Myers....
...no, not the guy in the horror flic...."Halloween,"....
1. This Michael Myers:
"Michael Meyers is President and Executive Director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition (NYCRC), which he co-founded in 1986.
Michael Meyers, as a columnist for THE NEW YORK POST, has published extensively on issues of race relations, urban affairs, education, housing, police abuse, civil liberties and civil rights. His articles have also appeared in law reviews, scholarly journals, periodicals and newspapers,....."
Executive Director New York Civil Rights Coalition
Clearly, Myers has a degree of expertise and experience in civil rights matters.
Yes, he is black.
2. I list the above because of his opinion on this topic:
"The University of Oklahoma closed a fraternity linked to a video of students singing racial epithets, ordered its members to move out of the house and labeled the actions of those involved “disgraceful.”
“Effective immediately, all ties and affiliations between the university and the local SAE (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) chapter are hereby severed,” University President David Boren said on Monday.
In the 10-second video posted online on Sunday and replayed by media outlets, students on a bus chanted in unison, using offensive language referring to blacks and vowing to never admit them into the fraternity."
Fraternity members ordered off campus after racist video surfaces New York Post
3. If easily 'offended,' don't watch this vid...
4. Myers emphatically states that this fraternity should not be thrown off campus....and no student not tied the vid should be disciplined.
It's called due process.
He is correct.
5. The answer to bad speech is good speech.
Tell them what you think of what they have done.
This is college....where better to have debate????
6. "Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S.444 (1969), was a landmark United States Supreme Courtcase based on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Brandenburg test (also known as the imminent lawless action test)
The three distinct elements of this test (intent, imminence, and likelihood) have distinct precedential lineages.
....The Brandenburg intent standard is more speech-protective than Hand's formulation, which contained no temporal element.
The imminence element was a departure from earlier rulings. Brandenburg did not explicitly overrule the bad tendency test, but it appears that after Brandenburg, the test is de facto overruled. The Brandenburg test effectively made the time element of the clear and present danger test more defined and more rigorous."
Brandenburg v. Ohio - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Although this is a restriction on governmental punishment....it should be applied here, too.
7. Where did the idea originate that black folks are like Fabergé eggs, and more fragile than anyone else?
Everyone of us has had insults in one form or another hurled at us.....and we shrug and move on.
I'm for free speech in America.
Or....are you of the knee-jerk Liberal response, punish anything you don't agree with?
...no, not the guy in the horror flic...."Halloween,"....
1. This Michael Myers:
"Michael Meyers is President and Executive Director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition (NYCRC), which he co-founded in 1986.
Michael Meyers, as a columnist for THE NEW YORK POST, has published extensively on issues of race relations, urban affairs, education, housing, police abuse, civil liberties and civil rights. His articles have also appeared in law reviews, scholarly journals, periodicals and newspapers,....."
Executive Director New York Civil Rights Coalition
Clearly, Myers has a degree of expertise and experience in civil rights matters.
Yes, he is black.
2. I list the above because of his opinion on this topic:
"The University of Oklahoma closed a fraternity linked to a video of students singing racial epithets, ordered its members to move out of the house and labeled the actions of those involved “disgraceful.”
“Effective immediately, all ties and affiliations between the university and the local SAE (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) chapter are hereby severed,” University President David Boren said on Monday.
In the 10-second video posted online on Sunday and replayed by media outlets, students on a bus chanted in unison, using offensive language referring to blacks and vowing to never admit them into the fraternity."
Fraternity members ordered off campus after racist video surfaces New York Post
3. If easily 'offended,' don't watch this vid...
4. Myers emphatically states that this fraternity should not be thrown off campus....and no student not tied the vid should be disciplined.
It's called due process.
He is correct.
5. The answer to bad speech is good speech.
Tell them what you think of what they have done.
This is college....where better to have debate????
6. "Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S.444 (1969), was a landmark United States Supreme Courtcase based on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Brandenburg test (also known as the imminent lawless action test)
The three distinct elements of this test (intent, imminence, and likelihood) have distinct precedential lineages.
....The Brandenburg intent standard is more speech-protective than Hand's formulation, which contained no temporal element.
The imminence element was a departure from earlier rulings. Brandenburg did not explicitly overrule the bad tendency test, but it appears that after Brandenburg, the test is de facto overruled. The Brandenburg test effectively made the time element of the clear and present danger test more defined and more rigorous."
Brandenburg v. Ohio - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Although this is a restriction on governmental punishment....it should be applied here, too.
7. Where did the idea originate that black folks are like Fabergé eggs, and more fragile than anyone else?
Everyone of us has had insults in one form or another hurled at us.....and we shrug and move on.
I'm for free speech in America.
Or....are you of the knee-jerk Liberal response, punish anything you don't agree with?
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