1) Making what happened/is happening at Yale a free speech issue is derailing the real topic at hand: racism.
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2) Erika Christakis could've protected free speech in the original campus email asking students not to be racist on Halloween. She didn't.
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3) Free speech is usually a reflexive term used to defend racism and misogyny—not all speech.
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4) The same students standing behind the free speech banner online at the Overheard FB page are censoring the students they disagree with.
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5) Some of the free speech people are using the term to defend genocidal statements, like "wiped out an Indian village."
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6) The Christakis have issued an email to Sillimanders; part of it reads "we understand that it was hurtful to you, and we are truly sorry."
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7) The email still stresses free speech. Even though that's not what this is about.
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8) Lots people deserve apologies here. Sincere ones—that don't bury the very real issue of racism into a pretend debate about free speech.
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Along with everyone else, I just got an email from President Salovey. Sigh. Deep, deep sigh.
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Your free speech is sometimes hate speech. Hence the reluctance to defend it.
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The unbearable whiteness of white Yale alumni writing all the white explainers about white racism there. They still don't get it. Damn.
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