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The Rocky Mountain News editorial position is a thing of wonder.

In the case of the Danish cartoonist, whose works featuring a likeness of the prophet Muhammad, violating a precept of Islam, the Rocky was adamant that it would not be cowed by potential threats. It, too, published the cartoons, proving that ...

Well, at the time I wondered exactly what it proved. It was easy to publish cartoons that offended so few readers of the Rocky.

The real question was whether it would, as a matter of principle, also publish those words whose use in Colorado remains marginally taboo.

So now we have that very test in the case of the editorial published in Colorado State University’s Rocky Mountain Collegian.

As a matter of consistency, the Rocky should likewise print the marginally objectional word.

Instead, the editorial of Sept. 25 — “Dumb and dumber” — feigned a strong stance while making sport of the Collegian.

Rocky Mountain News: You can’t have it both ways. Espousing bravery when there is no danger
is not courage. Get some fiber and print the word in full, or at least figure out your principles.

Allen Best is a resident of Arvada.

READER COMMENTS

Allen you do not see the differance in printing the cartoons and printing vulgarity?

You set a fine example of wrong thinking. It is one thing to use this type of language in ADULT conversations but to print it in a publicly used resource ( though questionable on its truth in facts).

Allen I suppose bravery to you is not standing up for morals, down trodden, and innocents but standing on a street corner demonstrating ones lack of knowledge on a topic.

Maybe it gets him off.

5:49 is the legandary impotent Republiscum coward. His posts have no meaning, much like his life.

Print them both. Free speech is free speech. Equal offender editorials, you know.

Censorship sucks.

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