Free speech

1) University of Michigan screening American Sniper 

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The University of Michigan’s Center for Campus Involvement canceled a planned showing of the movie American Sniper after student complaints about how the film depicts Middle Eastern people, The Michigan Daily, reports. A petition started by a student, Lamees Mekkaoui, garnered the signatures of roughly 200 other students and resulted in this Friday’s cancellation. 

“Although we respect the right to freedom of speech, we believe that with this right comes responsibility: responsibility of action, intention, and outcome,” the letter reads, in part. “The movie American Sniper not only tolerates but promotes anti-Muslim … rhetoric and sympathizes with a mass killer.”