In Which I Touch On Something Vaguely Political

There are a wide variety of political posters on campus of late- ok, not such a wide variety, but wide enough: more than one option. Not a big deal- that's what democracy is about. What bothers me is that there are a bunch of people who go around tearing down or otherwise defacing the other groups' posters. This comes off, to me at least, as a real contradiction to the idea of freedom of speech. QUite likely it isn't, in a legal sense or whatnot, but well- what's the point of being able to put up whatever you want if other people will immediately take it down? I mean, hate speech is another story, but political posters? Sure, I disagree with most of the ones being torn down, but still: this is no real democracy if people can put up posters for both sides and have them equally respected. Part of being a democratic citizen is respecting that other people don't always agree with you. The fact that college students don't respect that really irks me.

In Which I Touch On Something Vaguely Political

There are a wide variety of political posters on campus of late- ok, not such a wide variety, but wide enough: more than one option. Not a big deal- that's what democracy is about. What bothers me is that there are a bunch of people who go around tearing down or otherwise defacing the other groups' posters. This comes off, to me at least, as a real contradiction to the idea of freedom of speech. QUite likely it isn't, in a legal sense or whatnot, but well- what's the point of being able to put up whatever you want if other people will immediately take it down? I mean, hate speech is another story, but political posters? Sure, I disagree with most of the ones being torn down, but still: this is no real democracy if people can put up posters for both sides and have them equally respected. Part of being a democratic citizen is respecting that other people don't always agree with you. The fact that college students don't respect that really irks me.