Opinion

The Complexities of Ignorance

By Jerry Ling | May 24, 2000

It would be an over-simplification of an increasingly complicated situation to believe that all the recent controversy surrounding Yvette Schneider and her personal testimony is actually about "freedom of speech" or "sparking intellectual discourse." It is clear that the most fervent supporters and critics from both sides are not concerned nearly as much with First Amendment rights or the right to disagree, as they are with the fact that the opposing side's rhetoric is somehow offensive to them.