Witness the liberal double standard du jour at Florida State University, as described by Michelle Malkin -
I told you last month that Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers was invited to speak at Florida State University. The FSU president defended the idea by asserting: “Danger lies not in some speaker’s ideas. Danger lies in teaching students that ideas they don’t agree with are not important.”
Sadly, but predictably, conservative ideas with which liberals on FSU’s campus disagree were not important enough to allow within Bill Ayers’ earshot. At the event earlier this week, students and other protesters who objected to Ayers’ speech were hauled off to a separate “free speech zone” to protect Ayers’ supporters from being subjected to dissent.
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2 Comments
January 16, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Maybe the administration at FSU didn’t feel they were protecting Ayers as much as protecting Obama. Their lives and ideas seem to be intertwined more than is usually the case with two guys from the same neighborhood.
Besides, freedom of expression has become a quaint memory on American college campuses. Maybe not extending this freedom equally stems from them forgetting what it means because of applying it so infrequently.
January 16, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Indeed, it all goes back to Obama. The university officials must have felt it their obligation to “The One” to keep Ayers protected from public criticism. Much like the MSM, they are complicit in the campaign of misinformation and manipulation of the truth.
You should read some of the lib complaints about this post and others on Digg. It’s like the sound of criticism of Obama or his associates makes their ears bleed. They’re completely unable to hear truth that they don’t like.