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University asked to sanction student newspaper for "hate-filled" column
A Southern heritage watchdog group is calling on the East Carolina University board of trustees to sanction the East Carolinian student newspaper for an opinion column that called the Confederate flag a symbol of racism.
In response to the column, My Dixie Forever, a self-styled Southern heritage group, began an online petition to request that the university investigate the "hate speech" in Kalajian's column. The petition asks the university and the board of trustees to discipline Kalajian and East Carolinian Editor in Chief Amanda Lingerfelt for "failing to fulfill proper editorial discretion" in publishing the column that they said was printed "to incite racial animosity." Since efforts to extract an apology or retraction from the paper failed, the group said in a statement, they called on the school to levy sanctions against the newspaper.
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Oh, and by what dumb monkey's skewed math is 51% a mandate?
"Now, where I come from, 51% is considered a bare majority, not a comfortable margin. If only 51% percent of my family or my editorial staff think I am doing a good job, I might look to moderate my behavior, not repeat or enlarge it. At the minimum, I would not assert that I was overwhelmingly popular."
A Southern heritage watchdog group is calling on the East Carolina University board of trustees to sanction the East Carolinian student newspaper for an opinion column that called the Confederate flag a symbol of racism.
In response to the column, My Dixie Forever, a self-styled Southern heritage group, began an online petition to request that the university investigate the "hate speech" in Kalajian's column. The petition asks the university and the board of trustees to discipline Kalajian and East Carolinian Editor in Chief Amanda Lingerfelt for "failing to fulfill proper editorial discretion" in publishing the column that they said was printed "to incite racial animosity." Since efforts to extract an apology or retraction from the paper failed, the group said in a statement, they called on the school to levy sanctions against the newspaper.
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Oh, and by what dumb monkey's skewed math is 51% a mandate?
"Now, where I come from, 51% is considered a bare majority, not a comfortable margin. If only 51% percent of my family or my editorial staff think I am doing a good job, I might look to moderate my behavior, not repeat or enlarge it. At the minimum, I would not assert that I was overwhelmingly popular."