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...restaurants and even tried to avoid going outside. "What if they see us?" he would ask, and when I asked him who "they" were, he would become frantic: "Don't be so stupid!" he'd scream in reply. His fear of the woman through the fire-door seemed somehow connected to this type of exaggerated paranoia...
...free speech doesn't mean limiting every debate to the pros and cons of the first amendment. The staff has once again paralyzed itself into silence--they somehow find themselves unable to speak for fear of curbing free speech...
Racism is not a concrete problem that is somehow only understood by minorities. Minorities are not immune from having prejudices against people of other ethnic backgrounds. Any one who has felt prejudice or hatred because of their ethnicity will have strong feelings on the issue, but they do not have a special right to dictate what is said about racism and what is done about it. Even among people who abhor racism, there is room for differences on what should be done about...
...wasn't an apology enough? Wasn't a news story on the front page of The Crimson and the feature page of The Independent enough? An apology to the insulted parties should have sufficed. But somehow things got out of hand. Some editors demanded Stoll's resignation. Others called for his impeachment. Even the letter of censure which resulted was an overreaction to an event which should have been forgotten within a week...
...Somehow, college students have found enough time in their busy academic schedules to turn themselves into our nation's opinion police. With all due respect to my esteemed Cantabrigian classmates, none of us are so in tune with the will of God that we can act as his messengers of political correctness...