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UCLA Administrator Equates Offensive Speech, Death Threats
The UCLA student who posted the "Asians in the Library" video has apparently received death threats. If you want to understand what Â鶹´«Ã½IOS is up against when fighting censorship on campus, look no further than the response of UCLA Dean of Â鶹´«Ã½IOS Robert Naples to those threats. As our Robert Shibley noted yesterday, Naples the student newspaper that "If she's received a death threat, I find that as deplorable as her original YouTube video." (Emphasis added.)
That's right: a high-level administrator at UCLA has gone on the record that offensive but protected speech is the moral equivalent of a threat on someone's life. Think about that the next time you wonder why censorship on campus is so persistent.
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