Submitted by lumi - May 2, 2008 at 9:18 am -0500212.23.44.107
Chalts, the controversy over the school was that they accepted his work knowing full well what it was about (in fact, they invited him), and then decided to cancel it after the Young Republicans started accusing the school of “fostering terrorism”. Then tried to blow it off, all the while pretending they are all for fostering academic and artistic freedom.

The school administration’s complete about-turn in the face of moral panic is what irks most people.

Exactly.

I was just up there last weekend for a function at RPI, I'm annoyed with myself for failing to look into how this was playing out.

@ tony selby
they arn’t actually suing over the incident at the school, as you stated, they really didn’t do anything illegal, their finacial backers complained threated to pull funding so they folded, sucks for the exhibit but nothing really wrong there

See above. They didn't do anything illegal, technically, but it was definitely wrong. They had no "moral outrage" or "discomfort with the exhibit" when they invited him, KNOWING the content of said exhibit. They canceled after the fact, after the Young Republicans club saw the exhibit and started in with their demented bleating about RPI being a "terrorist haven".

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