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Originally posted by dstbrat
some even try to invoke the constitution to protect their insensitivity. but when you attend a publically funded school and seek membership in organizations that have anti-discrimination clauses, you voluntarily forfeit some of those rights.
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Only those rates in terms of your membership with that organization. As far as the school goes, these guys would have a pretty decent civil rights case against the school for this.
I've seen some pretty damned offensive speech get overlooked at public institutions. It just depends on how much it irks the administration and/or other students.
This case is a pretty good example of this. I think what the BSA chose to do -- posting pictures depicting these PKA's in KKK outfits with nooses around their necks was just as racially insensative -- if not more because of the fact that it was intentional.
From what I was able to read, the school essentially ignored the offensive actions of the BSA while coming down hard on the PKA's. One Pike's testimony stated that he had to surround himself with friends when he was on campus to avoid being physically assaulted. Based on that kind of testimony, one could make a pretty strong case that those flyers were "fighting words".
If a school is going to be against racially offensive speech, they should definitely be even-handed.