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Exactly. What they said was so offensive, not because she spoke in favor of free speech. It was because after being outspoken and sanctioning students for years in regards to hate speech towards other groups, when it comes to murdering Jews, they are suddenly eliciting the importance of freedom of speech.

When you promote hate speech as free speech against one group, while punishing hate speech against all the others, it leaves many outside observers with the opinion that you tacitly approve of hate speech against that group and I believe creates a hostile environment in the entity you lead towards members of that group.




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