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   XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.los-angeles   
   From: JW@jw.com   
      
   On 4/17/2024 5:20 AM, NoBody wrote:   
   > On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:23:36 -0000 (UTC), useapen   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> The University of Southern California said its valedictorian will no   
   >> longer deliver a graduation speech this year, citing "substantial risks   
   >> relating to security" over social media chatter surrounding the Israel-   
   >> Hamas conflict.   
   >>   
   >> The Los Angeles school revealed that Asna Tabassum, a fourth-year student   
   >>from Chino Hills, California, was selected as the valedictorian and would   
   >> give a speech alongside two salutatorians. In a news release Monday, the   
   >> university said she would no longer speak at the ceremony after the   
   >> discussion about her selection took on "an alarming tenor."   
   >>   
   >> The move comes after some students, alumni and others complained to the   
   >> university about Tabassum's social media, which includes an Instagram bio   
   >> that links to a pro-Palestine website.   
   >>   
   >> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/04/15/usc-cancels-   
   >> valedictorian-graduation-speech-israel-hamas/73336731007/   
   >   
   > Nothing like silencing free speech.   
   >   
   If she avoids politics she should be allowed to speak.   
   But the valedictorian speech should not give her a platform   
   for a pro-Palestinian anti-Israel speech.  She should be   
   allowed to say whatever she wants on the subject, but there   
   is a time and place for everything and her college graduation   
   ceremony is not the time and place for that sort of thing.   
      
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