Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Presentation Response to Freedom of speech

1.      With regard to the topic of freedom of speech college campus, I am confused about the idea they mentioned that freedom and equality are often in conflict, I don’t think they explain how freedom and equality are conflict in this topic.  “To be equal would mean that the majority is experiencing the hate speech that many minorities are facing which is not the case or that nobody is experiencing hate speech.” I believe this explanation sounds more like FAIR not equal. It may be fair for majority also experience the same hate speech as minority groups, but it’s not what equality means. I think what equality really means is the quality or state of being equal, the quality or state of having the same rights, social status and opportunities, etc. In universities, it should mean that all students have the same right to be educated, to participate in activities etc. in spite of their gender or color of skin. Although hate speech is offensive to the group of people being attacked, I couldn’t see how it undermine the opportunity, or social status (equality) on college campus (after all, most people on college campus is nice and friendly). So I think the presenter may need to explain more on that.


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