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Ann Coulter says she will not speak at Berkeley: 'It’s a sad day for free speech'

Tanngrisnir said:
Yet another opportunity for Coulter to spew her hair-on-fire hyperbolic nonsense. No, UCB has not become 'a radical thuggish institution '. No, her right to free speech has not been 'snuffed out'.

I can hear the dollars from the suckers flowing in already.

Exactly as she wants.
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Why is UCB scared to listen?
 
Mac77 said:
Yeah right

Milo is doing great these days wherever he is.

Which no one seems to know because he fell off the map since then
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He was very successful. He just pushed the envelope a little too far.:mrgreen:

I read an interview he did when he was doing the Dangerous Faggot tour. He had a 10K per week clothing allowance. Now he seems to have fallen off the face of the earth.
 
Mac77 said:
Yeah right

Milo is doing great these days wherever he is.

Which no one seems to know because he fell off the map since then
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Yeah, but wasn't that more to do with his "defense" of pedophiles video that had surfaced. Pretty sure he didn't have to resign from Breitbart because of the protest at Berkeley, lol. It was because of that video. So how about a little of that intellectual honesty and not trying to rope the two together.

So long as Coulter doesn't have some video surface where she apparently defends pedophilia, she'll be just fine.
 
It's pretty tough for me to get upset at seeing **** happen to the worthless piece of **** Coutler, but free speech is paramount. Don't like what Dan Coulter has to say, don't ho.
 
shrubnose said:
"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." ~ Tommy Smothers

You can't force people to listen to Coulter's right-wing garbage.

:lol:
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But there are people out there willing to force you to not have a chance to hear her and they are 100% liberal. This is a form censorship via mob that a LOT of liberals fully support and few are willing to denounce.
 
Porkuloss said:
Coulter probably didn't want to speak - she just wanted publicity (which she got). Her star faded years ago and she's trying to become relevant again. Milo showed her a way.

Personally, I wish people would stop playing along with these agitators and let them rant to their audience. Just ignore them.
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As a society, we can't afford to ignore them. They are a cancer on our society that needs to be addressed. The problem is that they are being accepted by silence. What these thugs are doing is almost identical to the racists that used to work to silence pro-civil rights speakers. There is an idea they don't like and they are using violence to silence that idea. Liberals are willing to fight against that kind of bigotry and hate, yet they aren't willing to fight against this kind bigotry and hate and in fact a lot of them are fighting in support of it. What we need are liberal leaders to start speaking out against this kind of thing and speaking out loudly, often and publicly.
 
Ikari said:
I believe the University had alternatives, but they were all shot down. So I do think the main thing was the controversy, get the name in the paper, sell a book. That being said, the violence on either side needs to be taken seriously and anyone engaged in it should be aggressively punished.
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The violence is overwhelmingly one-sided. If the problem we had was violence by conservatives, there would be no story, since it would such a small thing that it wouldn't be worth reporting.
 
faithful_servant said:
The violence is overwhelmingly one-sided. If the problem we had was violence by conservatives, there would be no story, since it would such a small thing that it wouldn't be worth reporting.
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I think recently Berekely had problems with both sides colliding. The anarchists/antifa vs white supremacist groups and such.

The Berkeley campus and adjacent downtown has been the scene of three violent clashes since February between alt-right demonstrators and white nationalists on one side and anti-fascist and anarchist groups on the other.
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faithful_servant said:
But there are people out there willing to force you to not have a chance to hear her
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 and they are 100% liberal. This is a form censorship via mob that a LOT of liberals fully support and few are willing to denounce.
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If you want to listen to Ann Coulter 24 hours every day/7days every week you have my permission to do that.

Have a nice millisecond
 
faithful_servant said:
But there are people out there willing to force you to not have a chance to hear her and they are 100% liberal. This is a form censorship via mob that a LOT of liberals fully support and few are willing to denounce.
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:lol: What a pant load of bull****...

I can't believe there's so many ideologically brainwashed people in this country. Liberalism vs conservatism has served the people who love to control America "extremely well".
 
Skeptic Bob said:
People will never learn. All you have to do with people like Coulter is ignore them. The Coulters an Alex Joneses of the work make their living off controversy. This could not have worked out any better for Coulter. She gets a bunch of press and in the end doesn't even have to put in any work.

People need to stop getting outraged every time some idiot spews nonsense. Just ignore them.
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Have you read her books?
 
shrubnose said:
If you want to listen to Ann Coulter 24 hours every day/7days every week you have my permission to do that.

Have a nice millisecond
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So no comments about the efforts of people to silence ideas they don't like?? What ever happened to the liberals who would have fought tooth and nail to protect that right??
 
Removable Mind said:
:lol: What a pant load of bull****...

I can't believe there's so many ideologically brainwashed people in this country. Liberalism vs conservatism has served the people who love to control America "extremely well".
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What do the facts show?? We have bunch of people using violence to stop someone from speaking because they disagree with her. We have DEAD SILENCE from any real leaders on the Left denouncing this kind of thing.
 
faithful_servant said:
As a society, we can't afford to ignore them. They are a cancer on our society that needs to be addressed. The problem is that they are being accepted by silence. What these thugs are doing is almost identical to the racists that used to work to silence pro-civil rights speakers. There is an idea they don't like and they are using violence to silence that idea. Liberals are willing to fight against that kind of bigotry and hate, yet they aren't willing to fight against this kind bigotry and hate and in fact a lot of them are fighting in support of it. What we need are liberal leaders to start speaking out against this kind of thing and speaking out loudly, often and publicly.
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They are beginning to, and I'm glad. Intolerant Far-Left Mob Wins Again Over Free Speech, This Time at Berkeley | Mediaite
 
Ikari said:
Mmmm, ok.
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That's what happened.... Read the reports about it and you'll see that a bunch of people got together for a big picnic and a bunch of people who didn't like what they stood for crashed that big picnic. Had they simply ignored them, there would have been no violence. That conflict was instigated by the liberals antifa thugs and no one else. People have a CONSTITUTIONALLY guaranteed RIGHT to gather peaceably and that was what was happening until the liberal antifa thugs showed up.
 
faithful_servant said:
That's what happened.... Read the reports about it and you'll see that a bunch of people got together for a big picnic and a bunch of people who didn't like what they stood for crashed that big picnic. Had they simply ignored them, there would have been no violence. That conflict was instigated by the liberals antifa thugs and no one else. People have a CONSTITUTIONALLY guaranteed RIGHT to gather peaceably and that was what was happening until the liberal antifa thugs showed up.
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It wasn't a picnic, it was two sides looking for a fight. Jesus, I don't think I've encountered any more dishonest representation of that.
 
faithful_servant said:
So no comments about the efforts of people to silence ideas they don't like??
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 What ever happened to the liberals who would have fought tooth and nail to protect that right??
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I don't try to silence people whose verbal garbage annoys me.I just ignore them.
 
faithful_servant said:
As a society, we can't afford to ignore them. They are a cancer on our society that needs to be addressed. The problem is that they are being accepted by silence. What these thugs are doing is almost identical to the racists that used to work to silence pro-civil rights speakers. There is an idea they don't like and they are using violence to silence that idea. Liberals are willing to fight against that kind of bigotry and hate, yet they aren't willing to fight against this kind bigotry and hate and in fact a lot of them are fighting in support of it. What we need are liberal leaders to start speaking out against this kind of thing and speaking out loudly, often and publicly.
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I think you misunderstood my post. I was saying that I wish people would ignore rhetorical bomb-throwers like Milo and Coulter rather than protesting them. Reacting to them with outrage is playing into their hands.

On the other side : What ANTIFA is doing is frequently criminal and should be treated as such. Trumpers that engage in violence or provocation of violence should be treated the same.
 
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