When hate is rewarded
Reader comment on item: Pa. Lawmaker Demands Punishment For Professor Who Defended Killing Blasphemers

Submitted by DRHazard, Aug 26, 2015 23:51

Every time Lincoln University sends this primitive bigot a paycheck they are rewarding stupidity, racism, lying, immaturity, incompetence, arrogance, rage and even criminality. The second message they are sending is tacitly and broadly accepted; as long as your not white and western you can unashamedly write, speak and behave as a hate monger. The worst that will happen to such a person is that they will get a boost to their professional status. The white, westerner acting similarly would be destroyed in every way legally possible and might very well end up fearing for their lives.

Freedom of expression requires that we all allow for idiots to abuse the right. But it doesn't require that someone continue to remain on the payroll of the organization that gives that idiot a pulpit. But only white men are the ones who get fired, and for comments that are relatively harmless but somehow manage to offend somebody. Underlying all of it is the clear, unspoken belief that only people who are white and western can be expected to behave decently and are therefore the only group held to account.

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