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...Japanese. ENEMY DEVILS STRAFE SCHOOL YARD, cried a headline in the Asahi Shimbun, which excoriated the "inhuman, insatiable, indiscriminate bombing." Several of the eight captured airmen were tortured to tell where they had come from, and three were executed by firing squad. Worse, the Japanese army tried to punish all Chinese who might have helped the downed pilots, and the slaughter in Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces took a toll estimated at more than 200,000. As often happened in this hate-filled era, each side angrily denounced the other's actions as atrocities...
...urgency in recent weeks, initially because City College decided to keep the infamous Leonard Jeffries as head of its African-American Studies Department, and then because of an incident of anti-semitic harassment at Yale. In both cases, "free speech" was invoked to justify decisions not to punish the perpetrators of bigoted acts...
...failure of Yale and City College to punish these violations implies an indefensible double standard: The perpetrator doesn't have to face the consequences of his actions if they were ideologically motivated. The principle underlying this stance is that such actions are the natural extension of one's opinions, and to punish the former is to discriminate against the latter...
EXAMINATION of this reasoning shows how far we have gotten away from the original ideal of the university as a truth-seeking community rather than simply a collection of truth-seeking individuals. From the point of view of the isolated individual, it may seem inconsistent to punish his "self-expression" depending on the form it takes: Aren't both actions and words equally authentic expressions of his viewpoint, which must not be suppressed...
CUNY should punish illegal conduct, not moronic teaching...