President David Boren has said he wanted to expel or discipline the fraternity members. Eugene Volokh, UCLA law professor, told MPR news that the Constitution is on the students' side.
"I don't think it's justified for him to expel students for what is after all the expression of their views," he said. "Hateful views and views that the rest of us rightly hate, but views that are protected by the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects all viewpoints: It protects communist advocacy, it protects advocacy supporting Hamas or the Islamic State or al Qaeda."
This article really shocked me. In class yesterday we watched a short video about how the racist people that claim they are not racist cause these issues. However, when a black person does something bad everyone blames that person. When a white person is in the wrong, we justify it with "its their expression of their views."
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