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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the transcript of the video. Really impressed at how the professor handled the angry students.

Professor(Prof): I have said I am sorry for causing you pain.
Girl 1: That's different.
Prof: It is different. That is different in fact. That's different from the statement that I am sorry for what I've said. There's a big difference between the two, guys.
Girl 1: Do you fundamentally stand behind what you said? (The last part was somewhat incoherent)
Prof: I stand behind free speech, yes I do.
Girl 1: Then that apology doesn't mean anything.
Boy 1: Even when it's offensive?
Prof: Even when it's offensive. Especially when it's offensive.
Boy 1: Even when it denigrates me?
Prof: [b]Even when it denigrates you even though I don't agree with the content of the speech. I have the same objection to the speech that you do. The same ones. But I defend the right of people to speak their mind. So who gets to decide what's offensive? Who gets to decide guys?[/b][u]
Girl 1: When it hurts me.
Prof: What if everyone says I am hurt? Does that mean everyone else has to stop speaking?
Boy 2: But that's not what was happening.
Prof: [b]So I agree with the content of your speech. I am as against racism as you are. I am as against social inequality as you are. I have spent my life addressing these issues. Even some of the students in my class...(unintelligible)
Prof: But that is DIFFERENT than the freedom of speech. The right to defend people to say whatever they want, including you. Including your right to write what you want and speak to me which I will also defend. One more thing, when I was at other institutions, I have defended people with your views against tremendous opposition. People with your views that the administration tried to ferret out and expel. I will defend you to say whatever you want, anywhere you want. Do you understand? Except, to disrupt a classroom where someone is trying to teach students which is a Yale policy by the way.[/b][/u]
Boy 1: So we're coming up with exceptions now?
[b]Prof: The one exception is that other people have rights too, not just you...not just you.[/b][u][/quote]

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