I was not offended.
I just thought there was an innocent misunderstanding.
We're cool.

My intention was not to disagree or offend in any way, and if I have, my apologies.

My primary point was to present a contemporary incident that was very similar to your posting: a violation of free speech by an intolerant PC college of the Lefty variety, of which there are far too many.

My reference to U of M at the time was only to emphasize that, as you pointed out, those intolerant non-conformists who have taken over had their roots in a minority (no pun intended) of Leftist campuses back in the '60's and '70's (see some of Obama's mentors) and are now the most intolerant ones, though many other colleges now share the Left-wing intolerance born then.

I can tell you that in most other colleges in Michigan or anywhere else I can think of from that era, a non-conformist Lefty would have been treated the same way as your example of the University of Alabama anti-war protestor. e.g., Kent State in the great state of Ohio.

What we have here is a regional communications slip-up in our experienced space time continuum--or whatever I just wrote. I've never been to Michigan. .
A nonconformist student in Alabama during, say, 1970, would be a lefty.
His views at, say, the University of Alabama would be tolerated by a professor, though his anti-war demonstration would have rocks thrown at it by other students. (This happened to a brother of mine).
Unlike my brother, such a somewhat tolerated lefty may become an intolerant PC police professor of the here and now.
That's what I was trying to say . . . my experiences based on locations where yankee yours ain't.

This is an older but related incident that happened at my semi-Alma-mater, The University of Michigan, a few months ago. (I say semi because I started there in the heady days of 1968 and got out within two years, to finish at a private school, having read Atlas in the interim, and ran like Hell from U of M.)

It concerns a student who was fired recently from the official campus newspaper, The Michigan Daily, for writing "a bitingly funny satire of trigger warnings, microaggressions and institutional bias against the “left-handyd” for the University of Michigan’s conservative paper, The Review". So, you know, it's about freedom of the press, man,

The story itself about the dismissal and the college paper's "reasoning" is interesting (and abhorrent). But for some comic relief, follow the link to the student's actual satirical article. It is so, to borrow a phrase from '68 "right on". I cried laughing.

BTW, allosaur, your comments are humorous and accurate for the most part, but back in '68 at U of M those nonconformist "righties" were as hated then as they are today. In that sense U of M was way ahead of its time. (U of M was the location of the founding of the SDS in 1960, by, among others, Tom Hayden.

Anyway, the link:

http://collegeinsurrection.com/2014/12/m...

Folks, I agree with him as well. But even if I didn't, doesn't the umbrella of free speech cover us all? Or is there a gaping hole in it over Oregon? I would understand he if said something threatening, after all, free speech carries a parallel responsibility, but I believe even stupid or ludicrous speech is covered. After all, who is the arbiter? At one time saying that the earth orbited around the sun was considered out there.

I happen to agree with this student but even if I didn't his "banishment" was unconscionable and contrary to "liberal", in the old sense, meaning "free" exchange of ideas. So the new standard in class is not to cause anyone "stress"? This is simply an excuse to shut him up and punish him for not toeing the modern liberal line.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
--Ronald Reagan


Right again, Mr. Reagan. Right again.

~Sigh~

I agree with student. He made a thoughtful and true statement. Wish I had a class. I would welcome him! Hope his parents are refusing to pay full tuition