[Peace-discuss] "Chief" Homecoming event is CANCELLED!!

[C. G. Estabrook]

  Chomsky (as so often) is correct.

But I think, in the original he said, not "people we despise," but "ideas we 
despise."


On 10/14/10 7:00 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
>> Censorship triumphs? Are we proud?
> If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we
> don't believe in it at all.
> ~Noam Chomsky
>
> I am assuming that the event did not have enough people planning to
> attend, so they could not afford to rent the Assembly Hall.
>
> If it was cancelled by the University, that would be censorship.
>
> Hmm. I wonder which it was.
>
>> (And doesn't canceled have one L?)
> Either way is technically correct, though the one L is the preferred
> spelling in American English.
>
> However, I will point out a few reasons I like the double LL:
> * cancellation is spelled with the double LL
> * the e is short. With one L, would it not be canceeeeeled?
>
> -karen medina
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