His argument is the classic Heckler's Veto. Because a not insignificant proportion of young Muslim men are bananas, they killed a bunch of people in Niger over the last Charlie Hebdo cover. Whether they even saw the magazine is unclear, but at any rate we should rein in free speech just in case the crazies are minded to kill any more people.Sounds like a plan.
If you're in DeWayne Wickham's class at Morgan State and you'd like to get an A, why not threaten to kill him?
Thursday, January 22, 2015
The magical power of threatening violence
Mark Steyn on a professor who says "The first amendment ends at insulting Mohammad."
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