Johnathan Zhao, new “opinion editor for a student newspaper at Duke
University is under fire for an editorial he wrote about the “plight
of black America.” Campus “progressives (communists, socialists)”
say it “offended them” and “hurt their feelings.” Too bad.
There's no law against hurting your feelings, people. The editorial
blamed a “pervasive sense of crippling victimhood,” which is
exactly what campus progressives are promoting, which is why this
editorial “offended” them. They think Zhao should be fired for
“unsafe” conservative views. I guess they never heard of freedom
of speech. Or if they did, they don't credit it for anything. If
ANYBODY (right OR left) can define some free speech as “unsafe”
and get somebody fired for it, we're DONE. The protesters wrote: “We
do not believe students have a protected right to use a student
publication meant to serve and represent Duke University as a
platform to proliferate racist stereotypes and misinformation about
an entire group of people—a group to which the writer does not even
belong," it continued. Translation: “We believe in free speech only
if you agree with us, and you can only write about your own color.”
One problem. Conservatives are as free to speak as are liberals,
whether liberals like it or not. (Biz-Pac Review)
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