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David French: Yale?s refusal to print

By ADF Alliance Alert

David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, has taken up the issue of Yale University refusing to publish content on grounds that it could trigger Islamic violence. David writes at the National Review Phi Beta Cons Blog: "The very idea that there are certain citizens whose beliefs are beyond reproach or even mockery is offensive to the idea of democratic society. There is no subset of citizens who are entitled to be treated with kid gloves, and it is imperative that they learn this lesson sooner, rather than later. Moreover, the fears in this case should be reversed. It is those who seek to threaten, injure, or kill cartoonists and writers who should live in fear ? the fear of lawful authority. Yet all too often we give the worst sort of person veto authority over our speech and in so doing encourage the very violence we seek to avoid." Related: Yale University Press Buys Into the Bla me-the-Speaker Approach Dennis Prager: Now Yale Embarrasses the Idea of the Western University Compounding Cowardice at Yale Yale Press bans images of Muhammad in new book including depictions based on Dante

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).