Word: validator
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...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...
...forums of academic discussion. Harvard students, as intelligent and discriminating as we are, do not require the guidance of supposedly “tolerant” campus groups like the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA) and BGLTS advisers in order to discern what is valid argument and what...
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...
...because the "party of Lincoln" was transforming itself into the party of Lott, Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, leaving self-respecting blacks no choice but to run to the Democrats. Yet the movement's battle cry--"We have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests"--is as valid today as it was then, even if the prospects for an independent black party are still unrealistic. If blacks are going to make political progress, it will be by balancing their votes between the two major parties--provided that Republicans get serious about all the post-Lott commitments they...