Students want to defund newspaper because of op-ed critical of BLM

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Yeah, I personally think that allowing ridiculous op-eds like that is kind of the point of newspapers, so I would not want to defund it if I were a student there.

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Yeah, I personally think that allowing ridiculous op-eds like that is kind of the point of newspapers, so I would not want to defund it if I were a student there.

That makes you a decent human being, so you'd make a horrible student activist.

I am a student activist, but I don't agree with these particular student activists on this particular issue.

Edit: to clarify, I support BLM, but I disagree that newspapers should be defunded over this. Now if the op-ed was openly racist they would have a point, but I read the op-ed and I didn't see anything that bad.

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Actually, reading the huffpost article again, they don't seem to be saying that they need to get rid of the article; they're just saying that they need to provide a space for marginalized groups' views, which sounds reasonable.

And lol at the parodists implying that Republicans are a marginalized group.

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I'd like to point out that while this certainly has nothing to do with Free Speech as a constitutional concept, it makes sense that someone who believes in "free speech" as a value would want to allow dissenting views in newspapers.

And I was talking about the parody at the end of the Huffpost article.