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Originally Posted by Kevin
So do you think the Constitutional allowance for free speech is now less than it was back then?
It's an academic point. Schools don't have the legitimate power to do jack squat to organizations who (omg) offend people.
Actually, the Sigma Chi thing was waaaay more extreme -- this was a contest where brothers did skits dressed up as unpleasing females. Here's a quote from the factual statement of the court:
"He was painted black and wore stringy, black hair decorated with curlers, and his outfit was stuffed with pillows to exaggerate a woman's breasts and buttocks. He spoke in slang to parody African-Americans."
-- if this is permissible, surely a little war paint at a party works. This case was in 1992. If you're referring to 42 U.S.C. 1983 is the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (it's been amended and expanded since then). It forbids anyone, under color of state law (a university) from depriving people of constitutional rights. Here, the University has clearly violated the terms of that Act.
But I guess to some, being PC is more important than the Constitution. Shameful.
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if you do something that offends a group, don't get mad when that groups says something. just as much as you have a right to offend, they have a right to say something about it. if you don't like the controversy that comes along, why do it in the first place?
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