Freedom of Speech

Blog 10:27

My group and I chose to meet up during class time today seeing that we all had it free. So before we met up we talked about what we wanted our topic to be for the group project. We each came up with one idea on are our own. I was researching and going though article when it hit; we had are own mini content and social object. This idea was Brother Dean. While I do not support what he says or does, many people gave him the recognition he wanted, which makes Brother Dean come back time and time again.

One time I saw a girl who was crying to a police officer begging him to take Brother Dean away, I did not hear exactly what he said to make her this upset but from the little I did hear him say I understand why she wants him gone. “How can I pay so much to go to school here and be bullied by a monster like him?” This is a question my friend asked me. While I do agree with her that it is an awful thing, at this point, others just see it as freedom of speech. We are blessed to have the right to speak our minds and say what we want. However, at what point does this become sexual assault? Sexual assault is something more and more people are becoming more aware of today and it becoming something less of unspoken rule.

While they did arrest him for kicking a girl in the chest, I would have always hoped to see him gone sooner. I ask my self why anyone wouldn’t say this was sexual assault before it got to this point? He had called out many girls before and said things I will not repeat. I just have to ask at what point does sexual assault and freedom of speech meet? Where do we draw the line?

In the end, I did not bring him up to my group because there was not enough information to do this project on him and the things he stands for. Yes, his Twitter was one way media and may have trended, but this was not something that I believed was meaningful to study and present a project on.


Photo 1:https://www.orangewebsite.com/articles/category/freedom-of-speech/
Photo 2:http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/09/you-deserve-to-be-raped-street-preacher-arrested-for-assault/
Photo 3:http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2016/09/brother-dean-arrested-today-after-kicking-female-ua-student-kicked-off-campus-for-one-year