Flynt Q&A not place for monopolizing conversation

TO THE EDITOR:

Some people are saying that an individual’s right to free speech was infringed upon when Larry Flynt came to speak at UNC. These individuals have a very strong case about it too, provided they continue to take the incident out of context.

The floor opened up to ask questions of Larry, and this individual stood up and “asked” the audience a “question.” By which I mean he preached about what a deplorable human being Mr. Flynt is and how we don’t want such trash at our school.

Unfortunately for him, the point of the event was to talk about how important free speech is, and nowhere in the description of the event was there any mention of hardcore pornography.

Pornography doesn’t enter into this discussion at all; we were there to hear what Mr. Flynt had to say about free speech, not to hear some random person tell us how ashamed we should be about caring what this man has to say about the First Amendment.



R. Blake Wentley
Freshman
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