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In reply to the discussion: The Limits of Free Speech [View all]COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Facts please, not opinions or personal conclusions.
I don't know if there [was] one or more in the bunch with especially intense hostility toward "niggers" and, even if I did, that question is irrelevant to the case against these two students. Likewise I don't know how many acts of violence have been committed nationwide by fraternity boys but, once again, the question is legally irrelevant. You cannot convict these boys based on vague accusations and supposed acts of some people perhaps similarly situated to them. The only issue is what have these two boys themselves done that merits the severe punishment of expulsion. And so far, the only honest, factual answer is that they sang a stupid, offensive racist song in the confines of a bus and only in the presence of other members of their fraternity, none of whom were African American.
As to Boren, you will see that he is already backing water (after listening to his attorneys) and is ow trying to dress his illegal action up with a new, pseudo-justification of 'racial discrimination'. This is undoubtedly because his attorneys told him that his actions violated the First Amendment. And, just to once again be clear about it, you have so far pointed to absolutely NO actual, tangible threat of racial violence made by these boys. To suggest that there is based on the facts as they have been reported up to now is just dishonest.