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If you find this as outrageous as I do, please help me put an end to this disgusting use of a state school's newspaper.
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So in the future, they should run all ads past you, to make sure you approve?
If your outrage is enough justification to get them to prevent this ad in the future, can liberals' outrage be enough justification to prevent gun stores or hunting organizers to advertise?
Let them print whatever they want - it's a college newspaper for crying out loud. If THEY can't print stupid shit, who can?
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I sure hope you aren't equating gun ownership to that of abortion. One is in defense of life, the other is snuffing it. You do know the difference, don't you?
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No, I'm equating censorship with censorship. You do know what censorship is right?
I'm merely pointing out that when newspapers have to stop printing ONE thing because it offends ONE groups, then the door is open to ANY group stopping anything that they deem offensive from appearing in the paper, and then the press might as well close their doors and go home - because the freedom of the press and the first amendement is dead.
For this kind of ad to appear in a college newspaper supported by tax dollars is really a new low.
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It might be a new low to you - but it might be an exciting and uplifting thing to various other people on campus.
I completely understand your personal outrage - and I find it vaguely distasteful as well (although no more than Viagara commercials all over billboards and the TV), but I don't see the point in trying to suppress or censor a college newspaper from printing whatever they want.
If you want to change it, I'd encourage you to get involved with the newpaper and become active in their editorail process - that's probably more likely to effect some kind of change that to just whine about it.
But hey - maybe you'll be lucky and the university president or chancellor will be outraged as well.
ETA: I do AGREE that the tax dollar thing is the potentially outrageous thing - since you cannot "vote with your wallet" and drive the paper out of business - which would obviously happen in a market if a paper printed stuff that offended most "customers". maybe you should also contact state representatives/senators or whoever might be the relevant state-level person to talk to.