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Then it should not engage in politics. It is likely that this income stream is being siphoned off. If Hitler made the trains run on time , it would not matter if he murdered only one.
I thought it was Mussolini who kept the trains on time?
Who knew there were so many homophobic, racist xenophobes at Berkeley
Who knew there were so many homophobic, racist xenophobes at Berkeley
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The birthplace of the free speech movement has become its graveyard.
Hundreds of liberals rioted at the University of California Berkeley Wednesday night -- burning stores, throwing Molotov cocktails and clashing with police.
The rampaging mob forced the university to shut down an event featuring gay conservative firebrand and Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos.
“I’m outraged that Milo has been given a platform at UC Berkeley, and there should be no place for him here,” visiting assistant art professor Samara Haplerin told the Daily Californian. “He should be scared that people aren’t going to stand for this.”
Ironically, Milo had planned to deliver remarks defending free speech.
“One thing we do know for sure: the Left is absolutely terrified of free speech and will do literally anything to shut it down,” he wrote on Facebook.
The British conservative journalist called the violence a “horrible spectacle and very humiliating for American higher education.”
The crowd hurled fireworks at police officers and smashed windows at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union. They also damaged buildings in downtown Berkeley – including a Starbucks and a number of banks.
The bloodthirsty mob targeted several supporters of President Trump. One young lady wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat was attacked during a television interview. An unknown man sprayed some sort of liquid in her face.
The Daily Californian reports another Trump supporter was grabbed by a crowd of agitators and thrown to the ground. He escaped, but they grabbed his red hat and set it on fire. And police had to rescue another man who was bloodied and beaten.
The university released a statement blaming the violence on outsiders who they allege came to the campus to cause mayhem.
They also affirmed Milo’s right to speak on the liberal campus.
“Chancellor Nicholas Dirks made it clear that while Yiannopoulos’ views, tactics and rhetoric are profoundly contrary to those of the campus, UC Berkeley is bound by the Constitution, the law and the university’s values and Principles of Community, which include the enabling of free expression across the full spectrum of opinion and perspective.”
Those are very nice words – but they are meaningless – unless they are enforced. According to the university, not a single person was arrested. Not a single arrest, folks.
Did someone order the police officers to stand down? If so, who gave that order – and why?
I find Milo Yiannopoulos repugnant on many levels, but if I'd been at Berkeley I wouldn't have joined the hooligans rioting in the streets.
I would have not attended his speech.
Period.
That's how we rolled when I was a student at the rather left-wing University of Texas at Austin. I don't recall a single time that a speaker's event was canceled due to protesting. No riots occurred when I was a student there in the 1990s.
Were we angels? LOL...course not. But people knew the difference between a dignified, lawful protest and a RIOT.
Ugh... furry turd doesn't warrant a protest. Its best to ignore.
I don't care if someone harbors racist views.... just don't infringe on my rights. Its ok to believe any particular race is superior and all.... I am free to believe that individual's like that are a pathetic representation of their race.
No... there are no exceptions made in the 1st amendment for hate speech. However speech intended to incite violence is another topic all together... subject to judge's views.
I heard one protestor on the news saying that Milo's speech was not free speech it was hate speech and that they had the right to "defend themselves".
Idiots. Milo's speech is not hate speech. He speaks truth, he presents facts, he tears down the insipid narrative that so many on the left have slurped up in their attempt to be "the world's biggest victim".
The closest thing that Milo has said that might sound hateful, but is not even close to hate speech is: "F**k your feelings."
Liberals don't like it when people tell them to get the F over it.
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Who knew there were so many homophobic, racist xenophobes at Berkeley
