Should schools be able to expel students because of their speech

[The Free North]

In reference to the OU SAE situation of course...

Of course its both sad and embarrassing that people will still revert back to such hateful speech (i blame a combination of alcohol and racist parents for the action in the video).
I also think its both sad and embarrassing that a school would expel students over certain types of speech. Obviously direct threats of violence should be investigated by law enforcement for safety reasons, and in those cases the appropriate legal action should be taken if the threats were proven to be legitimate. Part of me would not be as irritated if universities did not claim to be such bastions of free thinking and learning, but when they are presented as such, it raises a few eyebrows when this happens.

I suppose it comes down to whether or not you believe 'open minded' schools are being hypocritical in not allowing 'close minded' speech. I believe that we have the right to speak out but should suffer societal consequences if our speech is offensive and hateful, NOT institutional consequences, assuming there is no direct violence involved. Ultimately, I think it raises questions over what free speech really extends to and to what extent do universities truly protect free speech rather than selected free speech.

Note: I don't want to have a discussion over whether or not the school has the legal right to do what they did, but rather should they have taken the course of action they did.

Also as an aside, if this is the standard for expulsion I would be unhappy to say that America's college age population would probably drop substantially for all races.

[The Free North]

Universities have the right to say who attends, and a right to revoke the enrollment of those who break their policies.


Unless you want to make public universities a completely government controlled service, with free admission for all. But I doubt your libertarian ass wants that.

At least read what I wrote first...

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[The Free North]

Universities have the right to say who attends, and a right to revoke the enrollment of those who break their policies.


Unless you want to make public universities a completely government controlled service, with free admission for all. But I doubt your libertarian ass wants that.

At least read what I wrote first...

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If you want an answer to that, then yes. It's 2015, sorry it's no longer okay to be racist.

So would you support expelling the students who have made threats of violence and bigoted speech towards greek members not-affiliated with this event?