Oh man… I think I just pulled a sarcasm muscle… I’m gonna get back to Das Kapital now.

Yup. Doesn’t mean I would agree with the content of this “raw hate and ridicule” - as, in fact, I don’t agree with the content of the Insurgent.

But there’s a huge difference between suppressing speech with which you disagree, and challenging it with more speech of your own. If you allow people to make arguments like this in public, then they can be rebutted in public, and everyone gets to see it in the record. By mounting such a half-assed offensive against Christianity, the Insurgent was actually potentially doing the campus religious community a favor. Arguing that all Christians are violent warmongers, or whatever, is like arguing that gay people are child molestors, or that blacks are criminals. It’s a way for imbeciles to pass the time. It should be easy to dismiss or dismantle, as you see fit.

Instead, we have people arguing that the Insurgent should be muzzled or shut down or (for Christ’s sake) facing criminal charges, which is not helping their side at all. Come on, Jeff: WWJD? Apart from tossing insults around on the internet, I mean.

Last year we got in trouble with the PFC busy-bodies for making fun of a student senator with…indeterminate gender-identity status. A couple of years before that, we had a problem with the Voice because we published a satirical article about “Jewish Drinking Holidays” (a parody of an upcoming OV article about Purim). That same issue we called some anti-war protesters “fucking racists” on the back cover in 100 pt font. That, also, caused some headaches. The year before that I ran for ASUO Executive on a McCarthy-ite platform, which got me called a racist in the letters section of the ODE. There’s also a long list of our tribulations with MEChA, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to recap that for you.

For the record, not that Mr. Ruff needs me to defend him, Olly’s statement was that it’s childish for White to expect his precious sensitivities to be protected administratively. If you read the rest of the post, it’s obvious to anyone who passed basic reading comprehension that Olly’s point was all such requests are childish and ultimately stupid. You don’t get a pass because your little feelings were hurt, is the point. Grow up, this is the real world. Last I checked Jack T Chick was still publishing little tracts*, and the Gonzaga Witness was still around, so go publish something about the immorality of some folks’ sexual preferences, or carry around a big sign with a fetus on it if that kind of thing floats your boat. Do whatever you want, offend whomever you wish, but don’t whine that people who offend you should be shut up. That knife cuts both ways.

*For the record, I want to be neither Elfstar nor Debbie.