First of all, your posts are rarely mainstream enough (in terms of the left paradigm), to even be debatable on this website. Second, I have dealt with right wingers for years , so I really have no need to try and "fight" their arguments again. Besides, most of them won't change their minds - they are ideologues. In that spirit, I must say that I feel your right wing style of blogging is useless and stupid. I really don't want to debate the right wing on this website, and neither do most of the people who blog here.
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The Crushing of Free Dissent on Campus (Also: Why I Post Like a Right-Winger)
(Edit: Down in the comments section, JR raised some questions about why I write as I do on CampusProgress. Our conversation might be of interest to some people - Hence, the updated title of this post. Scroll down if you're interested. Warning: It's 5AM, I'm zonked out, and yes, there are some spelling errors.)
Not even intentional blasphemy, either! The protestors were simply stomping on renditions of the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah, which included the word 'Allah' in Arabic script unbeknownst to them.
But let's say it were intentional. It would be in poor taste, I agree, but how on earth can any civilized society justify the prohibition of blasphemy? No religion or superstition (I will leave it up to readers to distinguish between the two as they like) is deserving of such special protections.
The school administrators are clearly doing their best to make an uncomfortable and hostile campus environment for people such as atheists and anti-theists, a group for whom historically the restriction of the freedom to criticize religion has been followed by violence and oppression.
(Atheists are one of the most discriminated-against minorities in our society; 40% of Americans say they would not vote for an Atheist for president even if they agreed with him on every policy, as compared with 10% for African Americans, Women, or Jews.)
The right to commit blasphemy is a cause that every liberal and progressive should rally behind.
Edit: One of the students in the campus newspaper is quoted as follows:
“The fact that God was on the flag, it was offensive to me and other Muslims,” Najjar said. “You don’t get to step on people’s religions.”
Setting aside the question of whether the far, far greater offense was that a political party put God on their flag, since when do you not get to step on people's religions at a public university?
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