Not only does your link to TheStar.com not support your statement it is just an out of context portion of this screenshot from their facebook page. As you can clearly see no one is saying

THEY WANTED to have sex with someone until they were unconscious/while they were unconscious.

It looks more like that person is making a joke at the expense of the person whose name is blurred out. Not only that but the whole screenshot is part of a larger conversation that is suspiciously not included. So the reality is all of it thus far is not shown in context. It is unfortunate that The Star, the CBC, local media and maybe yourself are misrepresenting the truth in order to feed the hysteria over this.

Although their humor is defiantly crude it was, at the time it was posted, considered to be a private group. They were joking amongst themselves and not intentionally trying to harass anyone. Offensive humor is not limited to the dark corners of the internet or male locker rooms but is broadcast across televisions networks and internet websites. As I pointed out elsewhere a simple example is the roast of James Franco where they spend over an hour cracking rude, crude, harsh and racy jokes slamming peoples sex, sexual orientation, race, physical appearance and religion?

I am not endorsing the Dalhousie Facebook groups taste in humor and to most they have gone a bit too far but all we are seeing is a select few OUT OF CONTEXT screenshots of a Facebook group that was over three years old. There are dozens of message boards and newspaper articles where people argue the morality of these students but no one debating this including the Dalhousie President has viewed the Facebook group site in its entirety. We are all basing our opinions on a very scant amount of real information. The hysteria for this subject is completely out of control and comparisons to a witch hunt is justified.

With the terrible events that happened in Paris yesterday most of the developed world is vigorously defending freedom of speech be it positive or negative. Here in Halifax we are doing exactly the opposite based off some fake moral high ground. The freedom that allows you to voice your opinion here also allows others to tell offensive jokes to each other.