Free Speech Exercised, Tested At U Kentucky's Constitution Day

Some high school and UK students crowded into the Cats Den Wednesday for the university’s annual Constitution Day Celebration.  Since 2004 all publicly funded universities are required by law to commemorate the signing of the document and provide an opportunity for reflection on the freedoms it affords.

The right of free speech was tested however with the appearance of U-S Senate write-in candidate Robert Ransdell who used his allotted time to deliver a racist rant about the "Jewish-owned and controlled media," as well as to "stress the need for this nation's white majority to recognize that they have ethnic interests," before having his microphone cut off by the sound crew.

The horrified high school teachers then hustled their students to their respective buses, prompting this rejoinder from UK Rural Journalism director Al Cross.

"You've just witnessed in this hall a laboratory experiment about the extent and nature of free speech.  I think most of you found the remarks of the write-in candidate deeply offensive, however in this country people do have the right to speak, even if their views are offensive.  Now organizations can have their own rules about how much access they are going to give people like that but they do have a right to speak," Cross said.

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Many Jewish writers think that antisemitic speech should not be suppressed.  Suppressing it gives the impression that there might be something in it.  And note below that antisemitism is also still found on the Left.