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Re: [OM] University of New Hampshire Bias Free Language Guide

Subject: Re: [OM] University of New Hampshire Bias Free Language Guide
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2015 20:27:26 -0300
I watched CNN yesterday evening and learned that if one's auto licence plate tag was outdated or the licence plate was missing one would stand a good chance of being shot dead by Mr Plod, as one missing licence plate holder person experienced to his detriment, and especially so if one happened to be in Cincinnati, OH. Sad indeed.

jh

On 8/1/2015 7:38 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
If you'd stood on the corner of 5th and Main in Hendersonville, NC, circa
1955, and spouted anything but the Gospel, Police Chief Otis Powers would
have personally escorted you to a free night's accommodation at the city
pokey.

--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal


On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 8/1/2015 7:21 AM, Scott Gomez wrote:

One is as free to say what one likes as one wants, as long as one is
willing to accept the consequences of that speech.

But that was not the case in Berkeley before the early 60s. The whole
thing started because campus police were rousting advocates with card
tables, even those set up on public sidewalks (wide, not blocking) adjacent
to the campus, confiscating materials, destroying property, roughing up and
sometimes arresting both those people and soap boxers.

So what you say is a big improvement on the situation before the FSM. One
was not then free "to say what one likes as one wants" back then. People
who did so on the wrong topics on in the wrong way were silenced and/or
carted away. Speech was not free then, and the consequences were more
draconian that they are today.

I did not experience it , but understood the situation to be even more
oppressive elsewhere. Kent State comes to mind. (I have a friend who is
professor of Video there now.)

It seems that the material posted on the UNH web site that started this
thread is an example of free speech not in line with official University
positions.


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