Word: cancelling
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...can’t think of an occasion on which we’d cancel some event because...
...union representing Massachusetts firefighters said yesterday it had convinced WordsWorth Books in Harvard Square to cancel an appearance by a journalist whose articles chronicling the recovery effort at New York’s Ground Zero questioned the conduct of some firefighters who helped clear the wreckage...
...WordsWorth is a private business, and they have a Constitutional right to have any speaker they want, not have any speaker they want, cancel any speaker they want, for any reason they want,” he said. “I believe that freedom of speech includes the freedom of private parties to do whatever they want in this respect...
...read any of Paulin’s work, but my guess is that neither have the vast majority of the 100 or so who protested his appearance. Even if he were the most rabid anti-Semite in the Western hemisphere, the English department’s initial decision to cancel his appearance was irresponsible, especially when those who protested most likely hadn’t been planning to attend the event until they had read Paulin’s quotes...
...cancel his appearance is a two-fold affront to free speech: it both denies him the right to have an opinion—however controversial—and silences speech of his based on his personal opinions which are unrelated to that speech, akin to the blacklisting of the 1950s when screenwriters in Hollywood could not find work because of their supposed political affiliations. I only fear that at this point, what was intended to be a poetry reading will become a political fracas, and that those who want only to hear Paulin read a few of his poems will...