John Matteson, was he wrong to cut off his student's speech against gay marriage?
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As it stands, it seems that Matteson abused his power as professor, all over the fact that one of his students had a different opinion on an admittedly touchy subject. It's pretty inexcusable to stifle someone's voice simply because you don't like what is being said, particularly in a public speaking course.
I cannot understand how someone with a professor's education could do this. It's known even in high school debate teams that the best debaters are the ones who can easily defend either side of an argument like this.
It's especially sad that the person quashing differing opinions in this case has probably lambasted the previous administration for doing the very same kind of thing.
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M$However, without having access to the text of the speech the student, Jonathan Lopez, read in class, I don't think it's appropriate to make assumptions about how offensive the things he said were nor to jump to conclusions regarding whether the teacher was behaving appropriately in interrupting the student. It seems, based on articles available by searching Google News, that students in the class were offended both by Lopez's speech AND Matteson's remarks.
Perhaps they were both in the wrong.
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This answer is very interesting. Although nothing in the news reports suggests that the student's speech or tone was even remotely hateful, the commentator above has defined it as such. Hate speech used to include things like racial epithets, name calling, vicious insults and threats based on someone's group status. Apparently hate speech now includes just expressing disagreement with others on controversial issues. So much for the concept of rational debate.
Graduating is about coming together for the joy of accomplishment of years of hard work & study!!...of completion...NOT of petty opinions & politics....
No, he was not wrong to cut the student off.
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