You're being so literal. It's the spirit of free speech and free discourse in public educational institutions that's under attack. People pay money to go see a speaker because they want to hear his ideas, and then these brats enter lecture halls with megaphones and sprays and shout him down so that nobody can hear him talk.
I am actually agreeing with you in principle for the most part, and I am a liberal.
That said, so called "free speakers" should be judged by college faculty as to the amount of "alternate facts" in their address to college audiences. Should Bhagwan Shree Rashneesh or David Koresh be allowed to sell their version of the world to a college audience?
My point is, it shouldn't be enough to just say "I am a conservative and I have ideas", if those ideas are no more grounded in reality than the idiots trying to shout them down. All speech might be "free of government sanction" but that doesn't mean that a college is obligated to let just any yahoo take the podium because they have a following and they're selling lots of tickets.
They usually shout non-sense like accusing them of being fascists, racists, bigots, etc when the speakers typically aren't.
I'm pointing out leftist hypocrisy here. They accuse people of being fascists yet won't let them talk. Do as I say, not as I do.
I want to see a marketplace for free thinking, not thought or speech control.
What you're seeing when this happens is, the LIBERALISM in these people has failed. They have lost control of their own liberalism and are resorting to fascist tactics themselves, even as they accuse their target of BEING fascists.
Fascism is ridiculously easy, all you have to do is lose your temper and start stomping on anyone or anything you disagree with, and engage in peddling massive lies. But it already starts when you lose your temper, the next step is just a foregone conclusion.
It is mighty difficult to BE a liberal and it is mighty difficult to understand liberalism, because it requires critical thinking, and am appreciation for facts.
Once these people start shouting and spraying stuff, they've failed as liberals. They've washed out.
PS: It is noteworthy that Michael Knowles SELLS HIMSELF AS “a dapper, lib-triggering troll”.
Think about this for a moment, would you please?
How much FACTUAL argument are we really going to see?
If he's selling himself thusly, it's like going to a WWE event and expecting to actually see real Greco-Roman wrestling, seeing a bonafide sport.
People who sell themselves that way aren't actually interested in promoting ideas. Knowles has already said what he is, and he admitted what he's actually there to do.
Not very genuine, so if he's really only there to "trigger libtards" then what he really is, is a DRUG DEALER and the DRUG he's peddling is being consumed by the conservative audience, who really only came to see "triggered libtards".
Free speech? More like "bull **** disguised AS free speech".
A dapper lib-triggering troll?
How about let's see if a liberal marketing themselves as a "Jesus-hating con-tard triggering troll" would be allowed to speak at Bob Jones or Liberty University.
The difference is, we're not here to play games. Anyone doing a speech at a college campus marketing themselves as a dapper lib-triggering troll isn't serious. Why is the college even obligated to accommodate them in the first place?
