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Daisy Ramirez

WRD 103

February 22, 2012

DePaul University

How to speak without getting in trouble.

One of the main amendments is freedom of speech, but the what I wonder is how much

freedom do we have without being hated and getting in trouble by school officials. Is there a

certain line that is crossed when you state your opinion or what you believe in? Why must a

college student be limited to what they say andbelieve in, shouldnt we be much more liberated

the moment we begin college? Sometimes I think that any college you go to will say that you are

free to say whatever you want, but what you say may represent the school. Even if the schools

might say this, I think that the students should not be held responsible for representing the school

the attend. The student should responsible for representing themselves only and no one else.

There is a group of people that is widely known around America for their hate against the

gays and people that support them. These people are known as the Westbro Baptist church

group. This church has been seen protesting the streets with their posters saying; God hates

you Thank God the soldiers are dead. How much of the line are they crossing, that the people

have so much hate against them? I believe that the church crosses the line by stepping saying that

they will be a couple of yards away protesting their beliefs outside of the funeral.

In all honest I really do not care what they believe in because it is their choice. But the

fact they do not care to the point that they have posters thanking God that the soldiers are dead!

That is just disrespectful to the families that have just lost someone important in their lives. Cant

they wait to do their protest some other time? How would they like it if someone in their family


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died, and it was someone important? They would not like it. It just shows people that they have

no respect for anyone not even for themselves. The church declares that not only are the fags

going to hell but the people that support them are going to hell as well. Now this is just a lie!

Why must people go to hell for being themselves?

One of their posters that got to me was when I saw one of Lady Gaga. The poster said,

Gaga hates you last time I checked Lady Gaga did not hate people she actually supports and

encourages people to come out to be proud of who theyre. Like Lady Gaga says in her Born

This Way song No matter gay, straight, or bi lesbian, transgender life Im on the right track I

was born to survive she says that God makes no mistakes, that to me shows that God made no

mistake in letting people become gay or any other sexual preference. God cannot hate what he

made, so why is the church saying that we the supports are going to go to hell as well. Why must

the people suffer for who they are as a personality and preference? My point is that why must the

school stop the students from being who they are and stop them from being able to express their

really opinion?

One thing that drew my attention about this church is that if you questioned what they

believe in, in any matter, they will kick you out of the church and most importantly out of their

own home. I recently saw a daughter of one of the families get kicked out of her own house at a

young age. Why? Just because she realized that the belief her parents and family had was wrong.

She did not believe that the supporters and gays alone are bad nor will they go to hell. So why

must her parents be against her own belief? It is as if I see a college expelling a student for

saying something out loud to the world or in public that would jeopardize how the school is

being represented.


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Even though the entire family is against the fags there might be someone in the church

group that is just afraid to admit in being gay without being shunned, kicked out, or probably

even be exorcised. It is obvious that there is someone in that family that might gay or would

probably support them, but cannot show it. They are scared of how the Westbro Baptist church

might react towards their own belief of the group. They might not even be gay; they might just

be against what the church and their own family do in general. This might be the same for the

students in college, the student might be afraid to speak up because they might not like the

outcome of how the school would reaction. If the student speaks up on a strong belief what are

the possibilities the student gets in trouble?

Does a student have to stick to censoring what they say in order for them to not get into

trouble or hated in anyway? For example there was a girl that attended UCLA and made a video

ranting about how she basically hated people talking on the phone in the library while other

students were studying. What she did wrong was that she based her hate towards a group of

people, Asians. The problem she had was that she did not think ahead of time before she ranted

her anger out online. She did not think that ranting on a group of people was going to get her in

trouble by the school and become hated towards Asians. This basically minds me that as a

college student, you have to learn to say what you believe in without making the college looking

bad.

When I think about it, just like this family that kicked out their own child, are school like

that as well? Are the school officials much more strict on the freedom of speech, just the same,

or less?

This makes me think that what you say should not represent the school you attend, what

you say represents you and you only. Just because one student states their own opinion does not


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mean that you represent the college and it most definitely does not represent the other students in

the University.

Something that I would change if I were a school administrator is that I would not kick

out the student for saying what they believed in. But what I might do differently is sit down and

talk with the student about what they said and how they said. To teach the students that they

should think about what they want to say without them looking bad not the school. The school

should be represented by the academic work and how hard the students work to get to their

dream careers. A rant that student does just to vent out should not show what the rest of the

school is like because not everyone is the same as that one student.

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