"I find it enormously ironic that you're complaining about ambiguity in defining intent in language, yet also arguing for government restricted and regulated language."
Wrong again. In calculus class, there ain't much ambiguity in language. If the professor is talking politics in Calc 101, accounting 101, etc. there's a problem. I am arguing that professors be required to teach at college. Not use their class as soap box. Straw man after straw man after straw man. I also find it ironic that you earlier argued that hate speech shouldn't be allowed (while blatant rambling regardless of conent should be). I guess you know where the line can be drawn between politics and hate speech (and religion as well since it can be tightly wrapped into hate speech and politics). Might be a job there for you because a lot of people can't figure out where the line is. The media does a good job of pigeon holing some people, but I don't necessarily trust the media. Maybe you can be a consultant and help them get it straight. Back the hate speech/crime thing. I have always seen this as a PC crutch. A person can show how tolerant and open minded they are until something that is said which is offensive to a certain group. Then, hate speech is cited. Isn't that actually being closed minded against the group which spouts the rhetoric? Not saying anyone should agree with it, but doesn't the offensive group have a right to say it without the gov't dropping some hammer on their head. A think a good example was in Freakonomics. After studying a large sample of data from multiple online dating service, the data showed that 50% of the men said they were willing to date across racial lines while 90% of the women said they were willing to date across racial lines. In actuality, 90% of all men contacted same race people while 97% of women contaced same race people. So why did so many people say that race wasn't an issue, but actually make it an issue? The author's idea (which I agree with) said racism wasn' t the issue. It was being perceived as racist that was the issue. By checking same race only, people were afraid of being labelled racist. I think hate speech is the same issue. If someone says something that offends a certain group and you don't come out guns a blazin against the offending group, you might be labelled a supporter and enabler. In actuallity, you might not give a damn about either side, but is it worth the head ache of being labelled a supporter of the non PC side. If you're going to support freedom in the classroom, you should go all the way. Hell, let teach how to make dirty bombs and what not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:229523 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
