The "hurtful speech" Stasi at Missouri U

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@maya54

And no the arrest of the idiot who made a death threat does not moot the issue. It’s a crime to make a death threat. It doesn’t matter if it’s for racist reasons or personal reasons unrelated to any racial or other issue. Of course people should report crimes. They should not be told to report things that aren’t crimes to the police. And a university shouldn’t say they will take disiplinary action against speech that isn’t a threat or other crime.

The e-mail was over broad. Granted. But, in this case, subsequent events proved the university officials were right in acting swiftly, decisively and (for once) without equivocation. Who knows whether this “idiot” would even have been on anyone’s radar without the university’s warning?