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Anti-Semitism Rising at Penn State
Here is how Pennsylvania State University’s Daily Collegian described yesterday’s student protest of the war in Gaza: Waving vibrant Palestinian flags and holding head-turning signs, students and community members gathered Wednesday at the Allen Street gates to protest the conflict in Gaza. About 20 protesters braved frigid weather to brandish signs such as “You can’t bomb a resistance out of existence” and “Use tax $$$ for jobs, not bombs in Gaza.”
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Speech is not free for all at FSU
If there's one thing America's students (especially disadvantaged ones) do not need, it's to be inundated in classrooms with noxious notions about revolution, violence and tyranny. Every real education reformer worth his salt, whether conservative or liberal, agrees that the ideology of victimization that Ayers preaches is toxic. Pupils learn best when taught reading, writing and math in disciplined environments by teachers who accept no excuses for failure.
So: The harmful and flawed educational notions of a man who hid from the law after bombing buildings in which served our nation's police, elected officials and military personnel is, according to FSU, protected speech that public money should fund.
But protestations against Ayers' ideas apparently do not deserve similar protection.
The Democrat reported that two men — one dressed as Osama bin Laden, the other as Timothy McVeigh — attempted to make evident their disapproval of Ayers' views and actions by distributing, outside the student union, fliers mockingly described as "from the terrorist community." The men were removed to Landis Green, a designated "free-speech zone" that has the considerable drawback of being nowhere near the ballroom where Ayers spoke and, thus, allowing only the free speech that nobody is free to hear.
Oh well: At least neither was tased.
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