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

[Robert Kutz]

This, of course, requires some reasonable argument for why a demand against
the sale of merchandise bearing the Chief - or the promotion of a dance
using the Chief logo in advertising and decoration - is really 'property
besting speech' in any meaningful sense.

Cursing the nasty lot of capitalists seems a bit of an odd way to go about
bemoaning the unexplained cancellation of a racist event. Again, maybe we
can wait and see how free speech was actually violated (whether within or
without a framework rejecting the concept of the trademark as unjust) before
clucking our tongues at the whole dirty affair.


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:31 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

>  Property bests speech (whether bad or good) - a capitalist principle:
>
> "Those who own the country ought to govern it.”  -- John Jay (1745-1829),
> first Chief [sic] Justice of the US Supreme Court
>
>
>
> On 10/14/10 7:09 PM, Robert Kutz wrote:
>
> Declaring the triumph of censorship is perhaps premature given no
> explanation for the cancellation. I think we can afford at least a reserved
> and tentative pleasure in this case.
>
>  And in response to the obvious pressure the University was placing on the
> 'last dance' event - anybody is certainly free to discuss or reminisce about
> the Chief as they wish, but I see no reason to believe that the University's
> 'trademark' claim is illegitimate. I can talk about Mickey Mouse all I like,
> but it's hardly a violation of free speech that I can't paint him on the
> side of my shop.
>
>  It's debatable whether this is an issue of free speech at this point, but
> it's hardly a matter of debate whether we can be happy that this celebration
> of a racist caricature will apparently not proceed as planned, I think.
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
>
>>  Censorship triumphs? Are we proud?
>>
>> (And doesn't canceled have one L?)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/14/10 6:24 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>
>>   Just heard on Ch 3 News at 6p that the "Chief" Event scheduled for the
>> Assembly Hall during Homecoming Weekend has been CANCELLED!!! No
>> explanation, other than that it hasn't been (isn't expected to be?)
>> rescheduled. We win again? Still? Some more???
>>  --Jenifer
>>
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