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CNN Anchor Sends Surprising 1-Sentence Message To All Mizzou Protesters That EVERYONE Should See
In a message that some might say should be received on every campus where the chill winds of restraint threaten opinions self-appointed censors want muzzled, CNN host Don Lemon warned University of Missouri students against walling themselves up within “safe spaces” where no opinions but theirs can tread.
“If you’re afraid of having your feelings hurt, don’t leave your house,” Lemon said Thursday on The Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Lemon criticized clashes between Mizzou students and reporters in which students sought to ban reporters they didn’t like.
“…[T]he only issue I have with what happened at the University of Missouri is their vigorous effort to squash freedom of speech and freedom of the press,” said Lemon, who had earlier praised the college’s football team for forcing out its president. “That is a very dangerous road that no one should want to go down.”
However, it was what protesters did, he said.
“The Twitter account belonging to Concerned Students 1950, the protest organizers, tweeted, ‘It’s typically white media who don’t understand the importance of respecting black spaces,” Lemon said. “It was followed by, ‘We truly appreciate having our story told, but this movement isn’t for you.’”
Lemon said freedom requires unfettered media access.
“Students there should know that in America, a country with a free and open press, that it is dangerous to deny anyone that freedom. In fact, it’s un-American,” he said.
College students, he argued, “should not be coddled by retreating into so-called ‘safe spaces’ because they’re afraid of having their feelings hurt. If you’re afraid of having your feelings hurt, don’t leave your house. College is the place where robust debate should be welcomed and vigorously explored.”
Lemon said students hurt themselves by avoiding those with whom they disagree..
“It is also equally as dangerous and limiting and short-sighted to only speak, associate and engage with people or news organizations with whom you agree,” he said.
Lemon told students that life is not a cocoon.
“In the real world people’s feelings are hurt every single day,” he said.
h/t: Mediaite
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/cnn-anchor-sends-surprising-1-sentence-message-to-all-mizzou-protesters-that-everyone-should-see/
