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...shot in their sleep by agents of our government when their speech becomes a little too "free." For at Harvard, too, free speech is a selectively given right, available without the threat of disciplinary action only to the mainstream majority, sizeable and "acceptable" minority groups and white supremacists. Jacinda T. Townsend...
...weeks ago, Jacinda Townsend '92 hung a swastika outside her window in Cabot House in an outcry over the display of Confederate flags around campus. Her motive, she said, was to provoke the University to ban such forms of hate speech...
...letter to the editors, Jacinda Town-send '92 writes: "While I may be sensitive [the reason she gives for taking down the swastika hanging in her window], there are many individuals who are not, and without a policy change we may not be able to "sensitize" the person who hangs the swastika next year, next month or tomorrow...
...show my support for the removal of the Confederate flag all clearly stated that they did not deny the student's right to hang the flag, but rather that they wanted to induce the student to remove it by making her fully aware of its negative connotations. As Jacinda suggests in her letter, it should be removed out of sensitivity to those students whom it offends...
...want to concur with Jacinda Townsend in her two courageous and thoughtful actions: 1) her hanging of the swastika flag as a bold way of forcing immediate attention to the murderous symbolism of a Confederate flag hanging from a Harvard College house; and 2) her withdrawal of the swastika flag and her explanation of that withdrawal--namely, that she meant no injury whatever to our Jewish peers at Harvard or to Jews elsewhere by hanging this murderous symbol of the Holocaust, and that she sought forgiveness for her action from our Jewish peers...