Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

April 17, 2006

Freedom of Expression for All but Conservatives

Three cheers for our universities! Now not even librarians can recommend conservative tomes for fear of being investigated on trumped up charges of sexual harassment:

Scott Savage is a reference librarian at OSU Mansfield and a member of the school’s First Year Reading Experience Committee. After suggesting that students read “The Marketing of Evil� by David Kupelian, “The Professors� by David Horowitz, “Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis� by Bat Ye’or, and “It Takes a Family� by Sen. Rick Santorum, Savage was put under “investigation.�

The Alliance Defense Fund reports that three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against Savage because the list of books he suggested made them feel “unsafe.�

Unsafe? A book list made these professors, these enlightened educators who are supposed to be champions of learning and freedom of expression, feel unsafe?

The only thing unsafe about the books suggested is the fact that the students who read them might get a different point of view than the professors want them to. And we certainly can't have anything but groupthink happening on our campuses today.

This bit is on the university's website:

“…we celebrate and learn from our diversity and we value individual differences. Academic freedom is defended within an environment of civility, tolerance, and mutual respect.�

This is quite obviously a load of BS so that parents feel good about sending their kids there.

Why bother with a sexual harassment investigation? It's so time consuming, and probably costs the university money that would be better spent erecting a monument to Karl Marx. Why not just gather all the conservative books in the library and have a good old fashioned, jolly book burning? (I'll bring the marshmallows.)

At least that would be an honest way of dealing with the situation.

How our universities deal with conservative thought

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