tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post8773366788928312699..comments2024-03-29T05:11:44.999-04:00Comments on Strangely Blogged: Free Speech Update: Another Nail in the Coffin?Vixen Strangelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-199779003032147092015-11-12T23:37:40.079-05:002015-11-12T23:37:40.079-05:00Mizzou's black students' protests aren'...Mizzou's black students' protests aren't necessarily undermined by one professor's sudden censorious urge, but I'll go with what Rude pundit says:<br /><br />http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/11/addressing-real-problems-at-mizzou-not.html<br /><br />It looks like there genuinely is a hate-based problem there that several POC have been dealing with, and that the reaction to people questioning it has led to death threats and the like tells me students have a reason to be concerned that some kind of violence is being fomented against them. Not, maybe that reaction from white students is being accelerated by their speaking up--but that's sometimes how it goes. But I do not believe these students are signifying based on no reason. <br /><br />And that the person who tried to deny access to the more personal area of the student protest (reminiscent to me of the areas where Occupy activists rested) was trying to gatekeep a space where people were legit not protesting so much as sleeping and maybe not being "on", seems like it should be a legitimate line. Maybe not everyone is always ready to rise and shine for the cameras. Maybe there is a need for delineations of public protest and private space. <br /><br />But a private denial of access to a space where minor news is taking place isn't quite the same as the systematic dissuasion and criminalization taking place against watchdogs and whistleblowers in places far more complicated than a college campus. <br /><br />Not to demean the antiracism concerns of the Mizzou protesters, but to remind that more horrible free speech denials and coverups certainly do exist. Vixen Strangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-28453177454202993292015-11-10T19:46:10.805-05:002015-11-10T19:46:10.805-05:00A better linky:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2...A better linky:<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/11/professor-center-missouri-university-protest-video-offers-sincere-apologies<br />mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-27226093767645839532015-11-10T19:45:33.200-05:002015-11-10T19:45:33.200-05:00Of course, clean hands are hard to find...
http:/...Of course, clean hands are hard to find...<br /><br />http://www.motherjones.com/blogmikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.com