Charlie Kirk was a champion for freedom of speech on college campuses. His awful assassination at Utah Valley University only makes this issue more important.
Charlie Kirk was not an advocate for free speech for all. He was responsible for TPUSA's "Professor Watchlist", a doxing website that lists college professors with views that Kirk and his followers disagree with. Professors on this list, and their families, are then deluged with hundreds of death and rape threats for their constitutionally protected free speech.
I agree 110% with what you wrote. Furman can and should do better. I disagreed with about 80% of what Charlie said, but I would never go so far as to call him "polarizing." He made college kids think. I didn't see him as out to change hearts or minds. He just engaged and didn't flinch in his beliefs. There is a dearth of that these days. And patting herself on the back for having Alan Dershowitz on campus was unnecessarily gratuitous.
I am class of 75, and have watched with great sadness Furman's fall into liberal madness. This letter is not unexpected except in its attempt to be conciliatory to Kirk's followers. Thanks for showing Furman does not completely destroy the kindness and goodness of all its students.
I picked on the same two points. And the “even” at the end, makes it sound like she is saying “he was polarizing but despite that we will continue engaging in free speech” when in fact he was a champion of free speech and he was killed because he was denounced by some as “polarizing”.
Charlie Kirk was not an advocate for free speech for all. He was responsible for TPUSA's "Professor Watchlist", a doxing website that lists college professors with views that Kirk and his followers disagree with. Professors on this list, and their families, are then deluged with hundreds of death and rape threats for their constitutionally protected free speech.
I agree 110% with what you wrote. Furman can and should do better. I disagreed with about 80% of what Charlie said, but I would never go so far as to call him "polarizing." He made college kids think. I didn't see him as out to change hearts or minds. He just engaged and didn't flinch in his beliefs. There is a dearth of that these days. And patting herself on the back for having Alan Dershowitz on campus was unnecessarily gratuitous.
I am class of 75, and have watched with great sadness Furman's fall into liberal madness. This letter is not unexpected except in its attempt to be conciliatory to Kirk's followers. Thanks for showing Furman does not completely destroy the kindness and goodness of all its students.
I picked on the same two points. And the “even” at the end, makes it sound like she is saying “he was polarizing but despite that we will continue engaging in free speech” when in fact he was a champion of free speech and he was killed because he was denounced by some as “polarizing”.