{"id":454,"date":"2006-04-18T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T06:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2006-04-18T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T06:40:07","slug":"454","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Scott Savage: &#8220;threat to society&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OSU-Mansfield is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/opinion\/columns\/rebeccahagelin\/2006\/04\/18\/194136.html\">investigating referrence librarian Scott Savage<\/a> for sexual harrassment. The reason? He suggesting the book &#8220;The Marketing of Evil&#8221; for the freshman reading list. His accusers call the book homophobic and claim they now feel &#8220;threatened&#8221; on the campus because he suggested the book.<\/p>\n<p>This is a case of the thought police on the loose. They don&#8217;t like the way Mr. Savage thinks so they have falsely accused him of sexual harrassment.<\/p>\n<p>I did a quick search and discovered the book is not even available through<a href=\"http:\/\/library.ohio-state.edu\/search~S5\/t?SEARCH=the+marketing+of+evil\"> the university library<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/library.ohio-state.edu\/search~S5\/t?SEARCH=the+marketing+of+evil\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bkstr.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/SearchTradebooks?storeId=10647&#038;langId=-1&#038;catalogId=10001&#038;categoryId=9602\">OSU-M&#8217;s online bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So wouldn&#8217;t that indicate that the bookstore employees are more &#8220;threatening&#8221; than Mr. Savage?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, once again it is liberals who show they are the ones who stifle freedom of speach. There are none so intolerant as the &#8220;tolerant&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSU-Mansfield is investigating referrence librarian Scott Savage for sexual harrassment. The reason? He suggesting the book &#8220;The Marketing of Evil&#8221; for the freshman reading list. His accusers call the book homophobic and claim they now feel &#8220;threatened&#8221; on the campus because he suggested the book. This is a case of the thought police on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scott Savage: &#8220;threat to society&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivory-towers","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}