Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak Monday at Columbia, but Ivy League university won't allow American opposed to illegal immigration same opportunity. So what we have here is selective Free Speech is it not. Just what credidtability can a University have when they silence the free speech they 'hold so dear'?
2007-09-23 08:57:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes like most liberals they are only liberally accepting of other ideas if they fit their agrenda.
The funny part is they back their decicion to have him speak by claiming free speach is a right for everyone yet they dont extend the right to people who dont share their views.
For those who say columbia doesnt have to accept all speakers you are right but when they dont they only show their true colors and negate their argument that they want to allow free speach for everyone.
2007-09-23 09:03:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 5⤋
If the interviews and research were actually conducted, to me, this would indicate that Columbia University is intentionally feigning ignorance to throw AGJ off, or quite possibly Dr. Manning hired the worst investigators in the world. The diploma is published record, but records related to his attendance are not; those are walled off by privacy laws. What is known and published is that Obama graduated in 1983. The claim in #4 also cannot be accessed in public records. #5 is likely so because people at Columbia who were there when Obama attended classes are likely retired or deceased. If they interviewed people, then we could have gotten the names to see if people were representing themselves properly. Can he produce these investigators? I don't think so.
2016-04-05 21:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you please provide your source. Typically, large universities like Columbia allow recognized student organizations to invite guest speakers to campus. I am assuming that this is how Ahmadinejad was invited. Do you know of a specific speaker that some student organization tried to invite but the university refused to allow to speak.
Allowing free exchange of viewpoints within the University community does not mean that any person outside the University community has the right to demand that the University provide him with a forum. Columbia University is a private institution as such the right to free speech at the University is limited to members of the community and their invited guests.
2007-09-23 09:05:08 · answer #3 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
They're a private university, and they're entitled to invite whoever they want. But that's not even a consideration since, the Minuteman you're referring to did speak.
Conservative attack dogs are saying on the one hand that Columbia should not allow certain controversial speakers, i.e. Ahmadinejad, and on the other hand they're saying that Columbia should allow all controversial speakers. The logic escapes me.
2007-09-23 09:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
er... they did let those opposed to immigration speak there? the minutemen? remember Republicans that cry about the time THEY DID SPEAK THERE so often?
how can you guys cry about something so much, then say it didn't happen?
and they would let the ROTC SPEAK there... just not set up an on campus organization...
as usual, Republicans speaking without facts
2007-09-23 09:39:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Columbia University is a private educational institution and has the right to choose its lecturers. It does not exist to provide a platform for everyone who has an issue.
2007-09-23 09:06:36 · answer #6 · answered by Pascha 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
anyone who agrees with you on this issue either doesn't understand what "free speech" actually means or are idiots or both
you can give me a TD, but the above will still be true
2007-09-23 09:28:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a private institution, Columbia is not constitutionally required to give every opinion equal access to the podium -- they are free to pick and choose who they want as speakers.
And the opportunity to have a foreign leader -- whether he is generally liked or not, whether they agree with him or not -- is much rarer than the opportunity to have someone local who just happens to hold a particular political viewpoint.
Columbia is not a govt agency -- they are not silencing the people they are not inviting -- and that's why it's not a free speech issue.
2007-09-23 09:04:01 · answer #8 · answered by coragryph 7 · 5⤊ 5⤋
Ah the ROTC - a neofacist organization that preaches guns over education.
Yes, the Iranian leader is a complete idiot - but then, so is OUR leader.
This is about education. Who WOULDN'T want to meet somebody who may have a major impact on all of our futures?
Knowledge is power.
2007-09-23 09:06:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I agree, honey, it's out and out hypocrisy to have that idiot speak there, calling it free speech while denying the same to the minute men ( they said this group was too controversial to invite back. lol)
I hope it ruins the University, we don't need schools like this...
2007-09-23 09:07:27 · answer #10 · answered by LoneStar 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋