Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
Decent behavior in public and 'freedom of speech' are not selective...
except in academia . Ken, as a note, I had to justify to my chair taking two of my students to an Inter-University Seminar conference on Armed Forces and Society. Her complaint was that "we don't do War Studies". My response was "We don't study war? Then we don't study history!".

Much as I hate to say it, every bit of Anthropological research does point to the fact that "decent behaviour" is culturally relative and freedom of speech is selective. Personally, I don't think it should be, but it does tend to be.