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...personally offended by the implication that my desire to participate in AWARE labels me a minority activist "worked up over trifles." I have had the benefit of a private education at an international school, quite possibly an ideal environment in which to grow, with a world community as my peer group. I have also been harrassed by police, eyed suspiciously by elder members of society, and have been engaged in fistfights with less openminded youths over the multicultural company that I kept...
Unfortunately, Hann isn't the ideal martyr for the First Amendment cause. His offense consisted of more than just unpopular political opinions--he shouted racist, anti-semitic and anti-gay epithets at a first-year student. Worse yet, he was drunk at the time, giving Brown more solid grounds to indeed treat his as a disciplinary case...
...HANN WAS, after all, an ideal guinea pig on which to test the brand-new hate speech rules: his disorderly conduct supports the university's contention that he is unfit to remain, and his actions are so overtly bigoted that he has no popular support as a martyr. What seems clear is that Brown's Disciplinary Board, in making an example of Hann, punished him harshly because it wanted to prove the school's serious commitment to the hate speech code. The circumstances of his case made them feel they could do this with impunity. A fairer policy would have...
...numbers grew past 20, it became increasingly difficult to maintain the ideal of silence, especially since newcomers were not always fully informed of our planned approach. In one instance, I respectfully explained our strategy and the reasons for it to a newcomer who had already begun talking to those who were showing the video. It is this interaction which Lai imaginatively describes as my attempt "to physically pull her away and silence...
...drafted 1946 constitution, Japan "forever" forswore recourse to "the threat or use of force" internationally. Less sweeping strictures went into West Germany's 1949 Basic Law, the covenant serving united Germany today. Both nations have fervently embraced pacifism. A January opinion poll asked Germans which country ranked as their ideal; 40% chose neutral Switzerland...