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Specific to this issue:
The problem that most people had initially with this situation, before the various tangents were explored, is the difference between being offended by the actions of the young men in question (I am referring to he Holloween Party now) and an agency taking "official" steps.
Be offended, be outraged, take social steps to punish the chapter. That is all good.
But don't have a government or authority type agency such as a University step in and punish them for a Consitutionally protected activity just because you believe that specific application of that activity is bad.
Because that opens the door to some agency punishing you for an expression that others don't approve.
Keep in mind that the same agencies that we applaud for punishing this group were not very nice to Civil Rights Activists not that many years ago. But at the time popular opinion supported them . . . like it does here.
Fashions change. That is why we have laws that are supposed to protect us at all times.
We either protect everyone or no one.
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