Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Booted from college for free speech

Indiana Wesleyan Student Kicked Out of Honors College for Questioning Cultural Appropriation
Two years ago, Micah Sample, a libertarian student at Indiana Wesleyan University, penned a rant against the campus's guidance to students to avoid offensive Halloween costumes and published it on Facebook.
The post was a tad on the trollish side: Sample referred to IWU's Halloween costume awareness checklist as "cancerous," and accused the social justice left of fetishizing victimhood.
"I'm going to culturally appropriate as much as I please, and I couldn't possibly care less about who gets offended," he wrote.
The statement was provocative, but it wasn't crude or threatening. Some of Sample's Facebook friends objected to the tone of it, and said so. That should have been the end of the entire ordeal.
We haven't booted anyone here at Redneck U.  Maybe we ain't been woke?

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