Unclear on the Concept
The WSJ reports in Best of the Web:
"Students have vowed to protest or block North Carolina State University's Free Expression Tunnel until the university's chancellor gives guarantees that no hate speech will be allowed there," Raleigh's WRAL-TV reports:
[Sophomore Monique] Bonds said that graffiti demeaning many different groups is common in the tunnel.
"It's free expression, but nobody is walking through, regulating it," she said. "They're just letting it happen, and it's not just racism, but gender, sexuality and religious discrimination."
And that is too delicious not to count as todays Quote of the Day
"It's free expression, but nobody is walking through, regulating it." -- Monique Bonds
Comments
That's not all! The Board of Supes just banned Happy Meals, unless a detailed nutritional regime is followed.
The new watchword is "Food Justice."
Seems we Americans are starving and in dire need of SNAP food stamps, and simultaneously so obese we cannot be allowed to eat what we enjoy.
In other words, for leftist intellectuals, everyone but them are basically children.
It seems more like the Vietnam protesters.
It's not that they don't understand; they're just on the other side.
The difference between "free" and "regulated" is established during your first day at kindergarten.
More seriously, yes, she's clearly for regulating the tunnel; apparently the usual solution of painting over whatever you don't like does not satisfy her.
If whitewash was good enough for the Clintons...
Not to romanticize the Free Expression Tunnel. It's the designated graffiti dump. Stuff gets painted over all the time, by the next person who dislikes it enough or just wants the space.
Freedom is good.
So all expressions of freedom must be good.
If they aren't, they must be made good!