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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Political turmoil is stirring at Loyola University! Pop, dumped in the streets in protest! Boobs hanging out on cover pages! Political prisoners and thought criminals, beware! Ha ha! No, I'm just kidding: no one really cares. Andy and I know Diminuendo's editor-in-chief, Bre. She's an amazing person. She doesn't deserve any punishment. However, I've been getting all this info about "protecting first amendment rights" and "free speech" and such. The magazine is, of course, a martyr now. It sounds of little American kids saying, "It's a free country," just to cut in line to go to recess. But not really. You might not like my tone. And some of you might say, "Yaddayaddayadda, 'freedom comes with responsibility?' Yaddayadda, you sound like Bush!" Some people forget to read the First Amendment before jumping to conclusions about this being simply an issue of free speech. Wait, it still can just be an issue of free speech, it's just not just a one-sided issue for free speech! Sometimes those things can really bite you in the ass, you know, believing in freedom AND equality. What about the school's rights? The school's NAME IS ON THE PAPER. THE SCHOOL'S MONEY PAYS FOR THE PAPER. What rights do the school and the Catholic Church have in our society? According to everyone, none. It's odd to be on what a younger me would've called the wrong side. I would've quoted an old favorite from Wiley's Non Sequitur, "This is academia. We preach free speech, we don't practice it." And that would be very true. If Loyola wasn't a private university. I know better now. The freedoms we live under are actually there for protection from the GOVERNMENT, not from individual entities we choose to pay for the services of, like, say, a school. ALL individual entities are protected by the Constitution. Anything they support they have the equal right to pull support from. Federal Government is the only thing NOT PROTECTED BY THE BILL OF RIGHTS, thank JesusYHWHAllahVishnuBuddhaThorGoodman. And it's not like I think the magazine was really dirty or anything (it was, but I'm a depraved individual entity. I like that kind of stuff). It's just that the argument that it's "free speech" is moot when the school foots the bill and therefore has the complete authority to not foot the bill. Moving on, the "pop" argument is about how Loyola supports evil Coca-Cola by keeping a contract with them. This leads to the child labor of orphaned one-eyed spider monkeys in South America. Oh, and they also kill kids, too. This is another matter, one I don't have an opinion on, and one that I believe will be solved by fire. May the best side's pyros win. Labels: Politics |
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