“Obscene” memes posted on a private Facebook page have cost 10 students their place at Harvard, reports the college’s newspaper.
The students posted messages joking about child abuse, sexual assault, paedophilia and the Holocaust.
Members of the group also directed several racial slurs at minorities, said the report.
Free speech advocates criticised Harvard’s actions saying the punishment was “draconian”.
Every time we looked the other way when the president asked for the right to detain people without trials, to engage in warrantless searches, to eavesdrop on private citizens without even a judge knowing about it, we made it harder to answer the question: What is it we’re actually defending?
…it’s a dozen scared kids and a police officer named John Pike spraying them in the face from three feet away. And while it’s his finger pulling the trigger, the police system is what put him in the position to be standing in front of those students.
Robert Sayegh was flying back from his cousin’s wedding on Sunday on a Delta flight, when, while complaining about a delay, he used the F-word to a fellow passenger and was promptly kicked off the flight.
If this is the new criteria, I will never be able to fly again – Ed.
You may remember that we withdrew a number of popular articles from ‘Dispatches’ because of these rat bastards right here. They shook down independent blogs like this one on infringement claims. Their story isn’t selling anymore – Ed.
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