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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

You have an anti gay rights speaker at a University. The students are going to use their FREE SPEECH to express their disapproval.

How Princeton Students Responded to an Anti-Gay Speaker on Campus | Teen Vogue

Pitt students petition university to cancel "transphobic" speaker events | LGBTQ | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper

Expressing their disapproval of the speaker's viewpoint is perfect; demanding that the speaker be canceled or shouting the speaker down is not.

Nice contrast in the approaches reported in those two articles (understanding that much may not have been reported). The Princeton article focuses on how the talk was allowed to occur unimpeded while the Pitt article focuses on attempts to cancel the speaker. I personally prefer the Princeton approach.

I found this statement in the Princeton article to be humorous:

On email listservs across Princeton’s campus, similar debates raged on. One email thread involving undergraduates grew over 25 messages long.

25 messages long? 25 messages on ToTV is a thread just getting started!