It also contains the statements of some of experts who advised not to publish the Danish cartoons. It ends with a contradiction:
The University has no speech code, and the response to “hate speech” on campus has always been the assertion that the appropriate response to hate speech is not suppression but more speech, leading to a full airing of views.
So, why didn’t they air the cartoons?
The decision rested solely on the experts’ assessments that there existed a substantial likelihood of violence that might take the lives of innocent victims.
But didn’t they tell us that “response to hate speech is not suppression, but more speech”? They don’t make any kind of reflection on why, in this case, it is different or why they aren’t publishing other great paintings which also depict Mohammed and have nothing to do with the Danish cartoons.
Cross-posted from T&P (with some updates on the matter).
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