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...semi-final matches featured senior co-caption Tal Ben-Shachar, who is number one on the team, versus sophomore teammate Rishaad Bilimoria, who competes at number four for the Crimson. In the other semi-final matchup, sophomore Daniel Ezra, the second-seeded player on the team, defeated sophomore team member Joel Kirsch, who is seeded third on the team...
Both Ezra's and Ben-Shachar's play held true to team standings, and each defeated his teammate 3-0. Therefore, they met in the finals where Ben-Shachar, who is a Crimson editor, secured a 3-0 victory...
Indeed, the examples cited by Ben-Shachar if anything contradict his argument. Fore example, he claims that the Oklahoma bombing of last spring was the end result of the "continuous denigration of government officials." In Ben-Shachar's ideal word, political criticism apparently is not protected speech. Explosives and a deranged disregard for human life--and not words--destroyed the federal building...
...alleged bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was reportedly motivated by the mishandling of the federal government assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. If Ben-Shachar is to eliminate the possibility of speech ever causing violence, all sources of news therefore should have been censored, even before anyone was aware of how the siege would end. It is difficult to see how any communication at all could take place in Ben-Shachar's regime, as someone somewhere might take some element of some speech as a reason to engage in some act of violence. If this is Ben-Shachar...
...summary, Ben-Shachar is apparently terrified that speech will be used to "incite the public to violent measures against the government." But in the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, "every idea is an incitement." Only a person with delusions of godhood would claim to be able to determine what speech must be suppressed, and what "diverse voices" will, magnaminously, be tolerated. --Jol Silversmith...