[Peace-discuss] Academic freedom, killing in Gaza

[David Gehrig via Peace-discuss]

The University is a governmental institution, and therefore subject to the Constitution, First Amendment and all, just as UP-TV is. Similarly, Francis's antisemitic ravings are legally protected speech. I will defend his right to say it on the street corner, and on UP-TV. 

This mailing list, however, is the product of AWARE. It sets its own editorial policy. There is no legal requirement that Francis be allowed to spew here. He is here entirely on AWARE's sufferance. Therefore AWARE is morally culpable for what it chooses to distribute. It chooses to distribute the antisemitic ravings of a foilhatted loon, up to and including 100% gen-you-wine Nazi propaganda in the last couple days. 

Francis has the right to goosestep his ass off up and down Main Street if he wants. Let him scream all he wants about the Jews who have infiltrated his Post Toasties. He has that right. But that doesn't mean that AWARE has to act as his megaphone. In fact, as I have argued for about a year now, doing so completely negates AWARE's claim to be an anti-racist organization rather than a kaffieklatsch with an open-door-to-neo-Nazis policy. 

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> On Jul 24, 2014, at 8:39 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> It seems to me that one should not have to have the tenure privileges accorded by AF to be accorded FS, however repugnant one's views might be to others.
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