We have a quasi-update to the story which is essentially responsible for spawning this blog. The December 6, 2008 entry in Hill of Hope, Censorship in Seattle, vehemently denounced the liberal intolerance rampant on campuses like that of the University of Washington and the disgraceful attempt of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate to extort a public apology from Sarah Jeglum, editor-in-chief of the UW's Daily for the unforgivable crime of providing a forum for holders of all viewpoints, not just those who bend over and grab their ankles for the gay community.
Unlike the love between lesbian activists this issue just will not die. Ms. Jeglum remained a paragon of journalistic professionalism and integrity when she addressed the student senate on January 28. The senate apparently convened to continue to whine the upending of their delicate sensibilities and wring their bony hemp-stained hands at the prospect of conservative tolerance going unpunished.
Senate member Igor Cherny, obviously a proponent of the Fairness Doctrine, expressed his belief that "a forum was not provided for students who disagreed" with John Fay's original editorial. Apparently Mr. Cherny felt that a published counter-argument, a Facebook group, and protest covered by both major Seattle newspapers, in addition to the "eight pages of letters to The Daily published the following Friday," of which Ms. Jeglum reminded him, were not sufficient the redress this slap in the plucked and Botoxed face of the gay community.
According to their website, the UW GPSS is no longer demanding the resignations of the right-wing hate fanatics at The Daily, who have not learned their lessons and continue to publish opinions from all moral and philosophical backgrounds. They are, however, clinging to their demand of an apology the way a starving monkey grips a banana, or a radical terrorist-sympathizer Marxist president clings to legislation which promises, at best, the complete destruction of the American economy and utter betrayal of taxpaying citizens.
Future ACLU lawyer and GPSS President Jake Faleschini claims that the "opinion coupled with the graphic offended the University's principles of providing a safe learning environment for all students." This blogger suggests that Mr. Faleschini and others who are frightened by cartoons of sheep (they can only be college students) remain in the comforting bubble of academia until they develop the reason and maturity necessary to navigate the adult world, which is apt to include many differing viewpoints, and possibly cartoons of giraffes, crocodiles, and even ostriches. Perverts.
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