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March 1, 2007
Long Island U. Settles With Students in Case Involving a Rubber-Duck Hostage
The C.W. Post campus of Long Island University has settled a $2.5-million lawsuit filed by five students who contended that the private university had wrongfully fired them as resident assistants because they made a video alleged to be offensive to Muslims, the Student Press Law Center reported. Details of the settlement were not released.
The case arose last month, when the students were fired from posts as resident assistants after a video they made spoofing a hostage situation appeared on the Internet. During the two-minute video, four of the students appear in ski masks holding a rubber duck as “hostage.” The students later apologized, saying they had not intended to offend Muslims.
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Are rubber ducks sacred to Muslims? Or is this another campus run by cowards who cave to pressure?
— Sheldon Mar 2, 08:45 AM #
Of course Sheldon is right. Ducks are sacred 2 muslims. LIU is run by pressure caving cowards. And may I add, all LIU-RAs R boneheads.
— Jo-Jo Mar 2, 12:45 PM #
Is this offensive to all Muslims, or just terrorists who happen to be Muslim? If the latter, and assuming the answer to Sheldon’s first question is “no”, is LIU caving to pressure from terrorists because they’re alumni and, ergo, potential donors?
— EG Mar 2, 11:17 PM #
It seems the only people to be offended should be ski mask-wearing hostage-takers, and perhaps, to a lesser degree, PETA. I fail to see where Muslims come into the picture.
— Hawk Mar 5, 12:14 PM #
The Student Press Law Center article (linked in the above item) says “They make ransom demands in broken English while Middle Eastern-sounding music is played in the background, and the words ‘Muhammad’ and ‘jihad’ are heard.”
So that’s how Muslims come into the picture. It’s not quite such a case of hypersensitivity as portrayed here. One can still say, however, that the proper answer to free speech, however stupid or offensive, is more speech, not censorship and punishment.
— Swish Mar 13, 02:27 PM #