California State University, Northridge: A mustache is hate speech?
We read:
"A picture of President Obama with a Hitler-style mustache adorned a booth on campus during Greek Week. When asked how Obama compared with Hitler, the response was, “Read the literature.” The young adults manning the booth could not articulate the problem in their own words, but relied heavily on their printed materials. Asked if they were CSUN students, they responded with pride, “Oh no, we are working for the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee.”
After observing the distorted picture of President Obama, English professor, Elyce Wakerman said, “My first reaction to the poster was shock. Hitler is like the symbol of evil and to put his mustache on a face is to demonize the person. It’s demonizing Obama without any basis. It’s hate speech.”
Professor Wakerman went on to say, “I have relatives that were killed in the Holocaust, and for me the image was troubling. If I had to look at that poster every day, it would be very chilling to me.” Professor Wakerman asked the people in the booth how Obama compared with Hitler, and their response was, “He (Obama) wants to kill us if we get too expensive.”
When asked about the claim of hate speech, CSUN media law professor, Jens Koepke said, “It sounds like the speech doesn’t come close to constituting legal hate speech.” He asked, “Does this speech constitute ‘fighting words’ as the Supreme Court defined it? Does the speech pose an imminent threat of violence or an incitement to violence or an attempt to intimidate?”
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The law Prof. got it right but if you read on, the writer still wants to ban such displays -- because of the "stress of having our president vilified"!
I wonder what she thought of all the "Bush=Hitler" speech of recent years. Did she want that banned because it might be stressful to Republicans? We don't need to guess the answer to that, I think.
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Everytime I hear the Big B.O. speak, I get angry!
So should the Big B.O. be arrested?
Mobius
"writer still wants to ban such displays -- because of the "stress of having our president vilified"!"
The writer really meant the "stress of having THEIR president vilified"!
I offended that they villified Hitler.
"The writer really meant the "stress of having THEIR president vilified"!"
You traitors should be rounded up and made into dog food. But then again, my dog would probably puke.
The professors last name explains her mindless obedience to anything from the Left. But the truly scary thing is, these are the people who teach our young.
Someone once asked, "why is it that whenever you see violent demonstrations in the streets carried out by leftists and anarchists, they are almost always students". The answer is, prof. Wakerman, et al.
Hitler was a socialist, as was Mussolini.
"The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (help·info), abbreviated NSDAP),
Commonly known in English as the Nazi Party (from the Ger. pronunciation of Nationalsozialist[1]), was a political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers' Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920.
The party's last leader, Adolf Hitler, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg in 1933. Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime[2][3][4][5] known as the Third Reich."
(Wikipedia)
Does anyone else suspect that to Leftists, Hitler's only real unforgivable sin was attacking the bastion of Communism, the Soviet Union? Had he not invaded Russia, I suspect the Left would be worshiping him every bit as much as they did before he invaded the Soviet Union. He would be like Castro today - a vile monster loved by the Left, rightly deplored by the Right (who always deplored Hitler).
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