Ken Berwitz
Roberts: “One professor complained universities are becomingplaces of prohibition. What\’s your feeling? Do youbelieve that\’s a place we are heading for American campuses now? “
Smith-Lezamo: “I personally am tired of hearing that firstamendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafelearning environment for myself and for other students here. I think that it\’s important for us to create thatdistinction and create a space where we can all learn from one another andstart to create a place of healing rather than a place where we areexperiencing a lot of hate like we have in the past.
I think (the physical attack on a journalist who tried to take pictures of the students taking over U of Missouri, is) a teachable moment for all ofus,. I also think it\’s important toremember that as student journalists, you cannot approach these type ofsituations with hostility and with anger because it only escalates thesituation.”
-Ms. Smith-Lezamo\’s view is that freedom of speech creates a hostile and unsafe learning environment. Not HER freedom of speech, of course, but OTHER PEOPLE\’S freedom of speech. Like for example, anyone who notices that she and her pals are a bunch of fascists who do not tolerate anyone\’s opinions but their own.-And journalists, like the student journalist who was prevented from taking pictures and then physically jostled/forcibly pushed away when he continued to try, are guilty of displaying hostility, anger, and of escalating the situation. How? By engaging in the heinous act of trying to take pictures of what Smith-Lezamo\’s pals were doing – which, apparently, they did not want anyone else to see. The fact that they physically prevented him from taking those pictures was neither hostile, nor angry, nor did it escalate the situation. No no no. He was the culprit.
