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I think people that do this should be charged with rioting. No one who has been asked to speak should be shouted down and harassed in a public arena or town hall or school.
This doesn't speak highly for this generation of college students, they have absolutely no tolerance for anyone, so hypocritical.
If I were the Dean of Students, or the School President I would be leveling sanctions....This is a small school...it won't be hard to identify the instigators. And, if they are paid protestors....Time to start checking ID's at the door.
Your sense of reality is so twisted that you may as well start accusing me of wire tapping you.
You've regressed so far you think *good* is done using the tools of *evil.*
Do you look forward to further exhibitions of violence on campus that prevent certain invited people from even being able to speak? Do you long for the near-future wherein this has become the norm and no one who doesn't 'fit the narrative' is allowed to speak? How far do you want to see this silencing go? Would you encourage this not just on campus but spilling out into society?
Here's what I wrote on Berkeley:
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If right-wing students heard that, say, Chomsky was invited by other students to speak and lost their sh*t so much they burned things, caused $100K in damage, and assaulted people, such that Chomsky wasn't able to speak and the event was canceled, I would be just as vociferous in my condemnation.
(Right-wing students being a small minority these days and generally given to rationality rather than irrational strident emotional outbursts, I doubt I'll ever have cause to levy such condemnation, but my point stands.)
Someone who believes in classical liberal values (freedom of expression, the marketplace of ideas, "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me") would just not go. When somebody was invited to my campus who I didn't want to see, I just didn't go. The others who wanted to hear that invited person were free to go hear that invited person and I was free to NOT go hear that invited person.
What happened at Berkeley was very ripe for criticism. That many feel the need to rationalize and defend it is a sad commentary on how far we've regressed.
Remember the saying, "I may disagree with what you say but I'll always defend your right to say it" and its derivations? No? I didn't think so. It's probably considered toxically masculine, patriarchal, racist hate speech today...
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