Comments on: Exorcising Saint Louis University’s intellectual dybbuks http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/10/06/exorcising-saint-louis-universitys-intellectual-dybbuks/ HotAir.com's Greenroom Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kc8ukw http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/10/06/exorcising-saint-louis-universitys-intellectual-dybbuks/comment-page-1/#comment-34535 kc8ukw Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:29:11 +0000 http://hotair.com/greenroom/?p=10457#comment-34535 Interesting. And their excuse is basically "this speech might offend people, so we can't allow it." If you can't exercise that freedom fully at a university, where can you? Daniel Pipes spoke at Washington University basically without incident. (I believe the school paper wrote the usual "he is a bad man, you know" article.) Robert Spencer did too, as I recall, although I wasn't there. Hard to believe SLU would be more restrictive. Interesting. And their excuse is basically “this speech might offend people, so we can’t allow it.” If you can’t exercise that freedom fully at a university, where can you?

Daniel Pipes spoke at Washington University basically without incident. (I believe the school paper wrote the usual “he is a bad man, you know” article.) Robert Spencer did too, as I recall, although I wasn’t there. Hard to believe SLU would be more restrictive.

]]>