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Conservative provocateurs on their way to UC Berkeley after cancelled appearances

Grand Mal said:
I don't know where that line is either, though it's for sure violence and property damage are on the wrong side of it. I'm also sure that nobody's obligated to provide a forum or an audience for the sake of somebody's right to free speech. For example, if a club in a university books a speaker who is wildly unpopular and the protests about that speaker get so loud and insistant that the university cancels the booking, nobody's rights have been violated. Might be a breach of contract thing, I don't know, but if you didn't have the right to the stage before the booking, you didn't acquire that right by being booked.
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There is, sadly, no legal protection against university cowardice, a widespread phenomenon.
 
Grand Mal said:
What a waste of time this exchange has been. I'm sure there's no shortage of your peers willing to play stupid games with you. Go play with them.
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Yea if you are going to dodge what is posted it will be a wasted of time.

You said concerning the speaker at Berkley

No it's not. When you're deliberately provocative, you don't get to whinge about what people do when provoked. Is he relying on the politeness of his audience? He came to that position in a very strange way, didn't he.
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Well let's test that stated position.

So you'd be OK if conservatives invaded Bill Maher's studio and used violence to prevent him from doing his show destroying the cameras and setting fire to the studio? If you think conservative speakers deserve it how about liberal speakers?
 
Jack Hays said:
And what foul language would that be?
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Yes, I was under the impression that foul language was against the rules and the moderators would get involved. Has that happened? Or is this just a special snowflake that gets offended by anything he doesn't like?
 
Cephus said:
Yes, I was under the impression that foul language was against the rules and the moderators would get involved. Has that happened? Or is this just a special snowflake that gets offended by anything he doesn't like?
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I think he's just pouting.
 
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