IUK censored student art — and warns it may censor again to be a ‘good neighbor’

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 IUK censored student art — and warns it may censor again to be a ‘good neighbor’

By FIRE December 20, 2018

KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 20, 2018 — The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and PEN America are calling on Indiana University Kokomo to commit to respect freedom of expression after it censored two students’ sculptures, one of which resembles female genitalia. The organizations’ continuing concerns stem from an administrator’s suggestion that the art may once again be censored based on complaints from the community.

“When complainers become curators, student expression is sacrificed to the most sensitive members of the community,” said FIRE’s Sarah McLaughlin, senior program officer and author of a 2018 FIRE report on campus art censorship. “Freedom of speech doesn’t exist to protect only expression that everyone agrees with — it protects unpopular, raw, or uncomfortable expression that’s too often threatened by censorship.”

https://www.thefire.org/iuk-censored-student-art-and-warns-it-may-censor-again-to-be-a-good-neighbor/

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Hitler would have approved!