I swear, college administrators are collectively the dumbest bunch of people on the planet. Check this out:
No stranger to free speech issues of late, University of Florida officials are now under fire for criticizing students who recently hung fliers on campus reading “Radical Islam Wants You Dead.”
State Attorney General Bill McCollum claims UF officials stifled free speech by asking the students who posted the fliers to apologize for offending Muslims.
In a Dec. 3 letter, McCollum accused Patricia Telles-Irvin, UF’s vice president for student affairs, of creating a “chilling effect on the free speech rights of students.” McCollum’s office said as late as Tuesday that he was still unsatisfied with UF’s response to his concerns, and he has asked his staff to research any actions that he should take to ensure the UF students’ constitutional rights are protected, according to his letter.
First off, truth should be a defense for the students. Does anyone in their right mind (and I know that eliminates lots of lefties) really doubt that radical Islamists want to kill us?
Even after two tries, Telles-Irvin (the hyphenated last name tells you everything you need to know) hasn’t placated the Free Speech concerns of Florida’s AG. Now, if someone posted a flier saying “Greedy Capitalists Want to Kill You” or “Honky White Rednecks Want to Kill You” this would not have been an issue. It’s unlikely she would have seen a problem with those.
