Zero good points made in this article. Let's go through a few...
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as if being conservative is now a de facto threat to other students."
Sadly, yes it is. In this day and age of Trump, the Republican party could realistically be described as a hate group dressed up as a political party. It is nothing more than cognitive dissonance that keeps the average Republican from recognizing how much their views align with the modern KKK, Neo-Nazis, and general white supremacists.
"the school reserves the right to refuse access to open mics based on the content of the speech."
Yes, that's correct. As an institution of higher education, they are not only within their right, but it is, in fact, their duty to ensure that there is educational value in the speech and that it is not simply overt hate speech. As pointed out earlier the current iteration of the Republican party under Donald Trump is nothing more than a hate group dressed up as a political party, and their so-called "arguments" are nothing more than gay-bashing, misogyny, racism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia.
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Liberals appear to want to preserve the right to deny service to conservatives on the basis of political sensibilities while preventing conservatives from denying service based on religious sensibilities"
Yes, that's correct. You see a religion is a protected class because it's not something you can really choose to be a part of. Religions are based on faith. Faith by definition is something that there is no evidence in support of. It's something you just irrationally believe. Often times because it was brainwashed into you from the time you were a baby. A political affiliation, however, is absolutely a choice, although listening to most Trump supporters it sounds more like a religion which is clearly not based on evidence technically it should be possible for facts and evidence to change your mind, and therefore you are responsible for it.
Now, the good news is that for Republicans if you don't want to be discriminated against you can simply not wear stupid MAGA hats, or bring up political topics when you enter a bar or other establishment. If you're not intentionally trying to antagonize the other patrons then there wouldn't be a problem, and most business owners would have absolutely no idea who you were or who you voted for.
Maybe to put in another way for you. Should a bar be allowed to reject patrons wearing known gang colors? Should they be able to reject them based upon their known membership in a gang? At this point in time, the tribalistic and antagonistic nature of Trump's Republican party put them on par with a street gang that's intentionally looking for a fight. If not a fist fight they are certainly going out of their way to purposely piss people off.
Trolling is illegal on most forums like this one for a reason. It's designed to elicit an emotional response. Your boy Milo who is discussed in this article has referred to himself affectionately as a "Troll." His words. Why would a bar which already has issues with drunken fights want to make matters worse by intentionally allowing in someone knowns specifically for stirring up anger?
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It is not a distinction drawn along religious freedom lines. It is all about free speech."
Again, horribly wrong. Free speech doesn't mean the freedom to say whatever you want whenever you want without consequences. It means the freedom to say whatever you want whenever you want without consequences
FROM THE GOVERNMENT. If you are specifically attacking, trolling, flaming, or antagonizing the other customers, patrons or students in a private business then the owners of that business have every right to throw you out. But if you're being respectful then the pure and simple fact that you're gay, black, latino, female, Muslim, Atheist... cannot itself be used as a justification for discrimination.
Again...take off the stupid MAGA hat, and nobody would even know you're an idiot...I mean Republican.
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That decision would also apply to a Jewish bakery asked to make a “Mein Kampf” cake"
In this case, a Mein Kampf cake would be a political expression. You could not require a Jewish bakery to make such a cake. However, if two Nazis just happen to be getting married and they asked for a cake that has nothing to do with Hitler or Nazis then no they couldn't refuse.
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or an African American bakery asked to celebrate a skinhead wedding. Would they also be denied the right to refuse?"
If there was nothing on the cake that amounted to hate speech or political speech then no they could not refuse. However if the cake had an image of a burning flag, or they wanted the bride and groom to be wearing white hoods or something then yes.
). That doesn’t mean it was right, only that it was legal.
