Free speech — within limits
An L.A. Unified teacher’s remarks at Occupy Los Angeles crossed a line. Her dismissal was justified.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-teacher-20111020,0,1401586.story
This newspaper ardently supports the right to free speech, even when that speech is controversial, hateful or ignorant. But no right is absolute, and Patricia McAllister, a substitute teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District, crossed a line with her anti-Semitic comment at Occupy Los Angeles.
“The Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and the Federal Reserve … need to be run out of this country,” she said in the taped interview with Reason TVthat then went viral on YouTube. On Tuesday, Supt. John Deasy fired her.