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...child, so it's important, says Allen, to pay attention to what you consider threats. If you identify a family member who talks about taking a child, collect and keep pertinent information (social security numbers, credit cards, etc.) about them on hand. Address the legal issues: have a valid custody order, don't just assume anything...
Summers also addressed the advocates of preregistration, noting some criticisms of the plan were valid...
...themselves acknowledge they had nothing profound to say. Transforming the question of free speech to defend displays like the snow phallus – created not in spite of it being obscene, but because it was obscene—corrupts the First Amendment’s legitimacy as a valid defense for real artistic expression...
...queer students are neither “immoral” nor “perverted” nor “unnatural” would be unproductive and absurd. It would legitimize Pappin’s extremism by conceding that moral questions about homosexuality are in any way valid, or subject to rational debate. Frankly, we have better things...
Arguments that are “hate speech” need no such label to be considered bad arguments. As members of an intellectual community, each of us already has the capacity to identify bigotry where it exists and to distinguish valid argument from hate. We don’t need outspoken proponents of “tolerance” to do it for us. What we do need is dissent from students like Pappin, who challenge us all to examine the limits of our inclusiveness and to question the bitter hypocrisy of whom we choose to tolerate and whom...