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for a college very long time. They intended to hurt her feelings ... and more. As I recall, Judge Guido Calabresi (2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals) once said about a comparable incident – when he was Dean of the Yale University Law college School — “It was tasteless, even disgusting, but that’s beside the point. college Free expression is more important than civility in a university.” I won’t argue with that. RWH, at 10:00 am EST on February 14, 2006 What I Actually Said I did not call anything the women did a “crime,” and I stressed the protection of freedom of expression. Here, word for word, is my actual statement to Inside Higher Ed, sent by email as a follow-up to a phone call of unmodified support for the students. I had just been informed of the content of the comments, and I wrote: “The first two crude comments (’midget porn’ and ‘eaten out by a monkey’) are vulgar, hyperbolic expressions of dislike for a class, and while subject to moral opprobrium by any and all who wish, certainly are mild criticisms compared, say, to calling a teacher (outside of class) a ‘mother-fucking racist pig,’ which professors have been called—-indeed, they have been called much worse.
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