Campus Left blurs what’s hate and what’s not, can you get away with expressing your opinion on campus, and did the trolls win the internet in 2016?
On campus, lines blur between what’s hate and what’s not
It might have been fitting if Dean Wormer, he of “Animal House” fame, magically appeared at a Babson College disciplinary board meeting Friday, to announce that Parker Rand-Ricciardi and Edward Tomasso had been on double-secret probation all along.
Babson students exonerated, will face no discipline
Two Babson College students who staged a rolling Donald Trump victory celebration at Wellesley College will not face any punishment, according to attorneys for the men.
In a campus free-speech case that put a national spotlight on Babson, Edward Tomasso and Parker Rand-Ricciardi yesterday were found not responsible on counts of disorderly conduct and harassment for their political demonstration, their attorneys said.
If Time Magazine had asked my opinion about their Person of the Year (and they didn’t), I would have told them: The Trolls. If you’ve been on the Internet at all this year, you probably know that an Internet troll is a person who promotes discord by purposefully posting inflammatory comments or content. Veracity is of no import to the troll.
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