In the article ‘A Right To Jeer’ by Alessandra Potenza it
talks about people at game specifically basketball and the people there making
comments in the stands and people making signs. In the article it says “Last February,
at a north Carolina state men’s basketball game against Florida State, two
former players seated in the stands Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani, were
ejected from the arena for loudly and bitterly protesting the referee’s calls.”
It also said that some people in the stands said they didn’t use any threatening
words so in my opinion what could they possibly said to get these two men
kicked out of a game. I think they were probably saying he wasn’t doing his job
right and tell him he was making bad calls and he got irritated or offended and
told them he wanted them out, but in the first amendment it does say free of
speech so the two former players could really say whatever they wanted to. Also
in some universities they are saying that they don’t want signs to be put up at
games to me that’s just dumb because why can’t people put up signs it makes no
since it’s what a person is rooting for or what they believe that’s like saying
people can’t wear different jerseys to games to express what they like if a
person likes something or wants to do something the only person that should be
able to change those thing are you and god.
Free speech is a complicated thing because it really only protects the idea that we can't be silenced for speaking out against the government. In other places (schools, for instance) the rights of speech are quite limited. For example, you can't yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater, or go to a funeral and yell things at the people in mourning.
ReplyDeleteYou are probably right though, colleges are taking things too far by prohibiting signs.
Try to use shorter, simpler and clearer sentences. This seems rushed. 80