The WELLESLEY NEWS: "Free Speech Is Not Violated at Wellesley!"

Steve Sailer

04/14/2017

From the Wellesley News:
FREE SPEECH IS NOT VIOLATED AT WELLESLEY

by STAFF EDITORIAL

If you say so …
Many members of our community, including students, alumnae and faculty, have criticized the Wellesley community for becoming an environment where free speech is not allowed or is a violated right. Many outside sources have painted us as a bunch of hot house flowers who cannot exist in the real world. However, we fundamentally disagree with that characterization, and we disagree with the idea that free speech is infringed upon at Wellesley. Rather, our Wellesley community will not stand for hate speech, and will call it out when possible.
Okay …

Wellesley students are generally correct in their attempts to differentiate what is viable discourse from what is just hate speech. Wellesley is certainly not a place for racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia or any other type of discriminatory speech. Shutting down rhetoric that undermines the existence and rights of others is not a violation of free speech; it is hate speech.

Indeed.
The founding fathers put free speech in the Constitution as a way to protect the disenfranchised and to protect individual citizens from the power of the government. The spirit of free speech is to protect the suppressed, not to protect a free-for-all where anything is acceptable, no matter how hateful and damaging.
Somebody needs to compose a Broadway musical about how James Madison was black, Hispanic, Jewish, immigrant, Muslim, and gay … STAT!
… We at The Wellesley News, are not interested in any type of tone policing.
Madison was short. Is that good enough?
The emotional labor required to educate people is immense and is additional weight that is put on those who are already forced to defend their human rights. There is no denying that problematic opinions need to be addressed in order to stop Wellesley from becoming a place where hate speech and casual discrimination is okay. …

This being said, if people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted.

“Projection” was Freud’s best insight.

[Comment at Unz.com]

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