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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your grasp of logic is terrible. [/quote]

Seriously.   At least OP is doing these graduates a favor because I can't imagine working with people like OP.[/quote]

You might express as much concern for the dead police officers and their families as you do about the job prospects of Brandeis students.     [/quote]

The officers were killed as a result of the same sort of thinking that you are demonstrating. Because some cops are bad, the killer considered all cops to be bad. Similarly, because one Brandeis student made comments to which you object, you are treating all Brandeis students as bad.

It is particularly ironic that Brandeis University is named after Louis Brandeis, a strong proponent of freedom of expression. As Brandeis once said, "In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action." He would be so disappointed in you OP. 
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Brandeis was indeed a strong proponent of First Amendment rights.  However, I haven't argued that Ms. Lynch does not have a Constitutional right to express her views or that the Federal Government should seek to regulate or repress them.  Rather, I am simply stating that it's not illogical to impute her views to the private university that likely has paid for much of her "education," and that, as a private actor, I have no interest in being around people who are associated with a school that has only disavowed her comments in the weakest possible way.

Moreover, as the child of Jewish immigrants to the United States, Brandeis also likely had a greater appreciation for this country than Khadijah Lynch, who repeatedly and publicly expressed her "hatred" of this country, incited violence against police officers, and stated that she was indifferent to the deaths of the two officers.

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I agree that Brandeis would have such an appreciation. However, I am also confident that he would be appalled that a University named after him would be expected to expel a student for expressing unpopular thought. He was one of our country's greatest defenders of popular speech.
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