Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love with one of them. Even Bruce Willis' Army general, leading the troops who take over the city, is given an interesting spin. He's one tough, exceedingly dutiful nut. But we also know he's overcompensating, because in an earlier scene he has given a speech against martial law. He doesn't think policing their own citizens is proper work for soldiers...
...describes the instinct toward double standards for free speech in statistical terms, pointing to poll results that despite overwhelming support for the notion of free speech, 68 percent of people 25 to 35 years old favored a ban on radio or television statements indicating that "some races of people are better than others." Perhaps some Harvard students also forget their commitment to free speech when speech is used against them...
Second, students must develop thick skins for unpopular speech and accept offensive views as a fact of life. Instead of seeking to silence others, those who are made uncomfortable by speech should combat it with speech in return...
...accept the fact of unpopular speech on campus is also to accept the reality of society. As Kors and Silverglate write, "What an astonishing expectation to give to students: the belief that, if they belong to a protected category, they have a right to four years of never being offended...
...seems to have put it best in his 1984 letter: "The principles of free speech require the understanding and support of all segments of the university community. Free speech will not survive in an environment in which many people are indifferent to its existence or hostile to the expression of unpopular thoughts." Let's take Bok's words to heart and be neither indifferent nor hostile to free speech on the Harvard campus...