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cow451 -> University Slapped for Free Speech Violation (7/15/2008 11:19:37 AM)

Free Speech News:

University Apologizes to Janitor for Actions After Reading Book on Break

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A janitor whom a university official had accused of racial harassment for reading a historical book about the Ku Klux Klan on his break has gotten an apology — months later — from the school.

Civil Liberties groups, including the ACLU[:o] took up the case, which drew attention from the Wall Street Journal.



freakofnature -> RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation (7/15/2008 11:26:43 AM)

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"You used extremely poor judgment by insisting on openly reading the book related to a historically and racially abhorrent subject in the presence of your black co-workers," Lillian Charleston wrote in a letter to Sampson.


Just like a liberal to try and re-write history. What is it with these people? It was even a postive step in the civil liberties fight in the 1920's and this university (btw, one in which I attended for a short time) has to muck up history this way?



Jhud -> RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation (7/15/2008 11:41:14 AM)

I think one of the problems is that the definiton of 'harrassment' has gone from a fairly straighforward legal idea (someone intentionally and systematically taking actions to cause the discomfort of another) to the one that seems to currently reign, that being anything that makes a person in a protected class uncomfortable, as asserted by that person. The former should be dealt with legally, the latter should be roundly derided.



EStan -> RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation (7/15/2008 4:16:31 PM)

protected class /n/ - One I don't belong to.



cow451 -> RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation (7/15/2008 4:23:15 PM)

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ORIGINAL: EStan

protected class /n/ - One I don't belong to.

LOL



mapachito13 -> RE: University Slapped for Free Speech Violation (7/15/2008 10:31:55 PM)

His black co-workers are against him reading a book about how the KKK got pounded in a riot? I'm confused! You think they would have cheered on such action!

What if his co-workers were reading a book on Louis Farrakhan and his form of racism or Malcolm X's early works. Would they say it's OK then?



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