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In reply to the discussion: UC Davis shut down Yannopoulos, Shkreli event. Free Speech questions abound [View all]Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)54. And you can bet every dollar you make from now until Judgment Day the media will be there
recording the whole thing.
Guess who they'll side with? The bully will accuse you of inciting violence and damn near every newspaper, teevee station and cable news network will be parroting that.
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UC Davis shut down Yannopoulos, Shkreli event. Free Speech questions abound [View all]
ghostsinthemachine
Jan 2017
OP
I agree about free speech...also believe if folks disagree...they have rights too..
angstlessk
Jan 2017
#5
Both the College Republicans and protesters exercised their freedom of speech
SecularMotion
Jan 2017
#8
Protestors were expressing their opinions & Brietbart ARE fascists, in bed w/NAZIs
Maru Kitteh
Jan 2017
#65
If you are so very concerned about Nazi's not having enough venues to speak at
Maru Kitteh
Jan 2017
#70
So, your posts make it obvious you're dying to actually call me a goose-stepping brownshirt so why
Maru Kitteh
Jan 2017
#83
Preventing a presentation that 2+2yellow is indicative of a goose-stepping brownshirt?
LanternWaste
Jan 2017
#75
On Friday, the Davis College Republicans canceled speeches by a far-right website editor Read more
Charles Bukowski
Jan 2017
#2
Bullshit. You can't label ideas you don't like as "hate speech" and deny others the right to speak.
Throd 2.0
Jan 2017
#12
"I wonder if Trump will draw up some hate speech codes. I'm sure you will love those."
Maru Kitteh
Jan 2017
#66
And anyone who wanted NOT to hear what Yannopolis had to say could just not attend.
WillowTree
Jan 2017
#59
Rigjt. To not hear it by not being there, not by preventing them from saying it.
dionysus
Jan 2017
#86
Let Rachel Maddow or John Lewis get physically blocked from entering a venue by
Jake Stern
Jan 2017
#29
There are factions on both ends of the spectrum that don't believe in Free Speech
madville
Jan 2017
#22
Would you support it if College Republicans used that as a reason to block John Lewis from Speaking?
Jake Stern
Jan 2017
#30
Good. Fuck Yannopoulos and Shkreli. Let them open their own University of Shithead.
LuvLoogie
Jan 2017
#26
Yeah, and the only reason "Milo" has a career is because he's good at getting "liberals" to try and
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2017
#46
No. There is such a thing as speech that is outside of civilized bounds, that needs to be stopped.
backscatter712
Jan 2017
#53
Well, I'm sorry, but the tools to suppress the speech you don't like can be used against you, too.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2017
#57
And you can bet every dollar you make from now until Judgment Day the media will be there
Jake Stern
Jan 2017
#54
They're just more right wing grifters, parasites on the ass of the church of stupid.
hunter
Jan 2017
#52
This LA Times writer had an interesting take on it, and she came to a lot of
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2017
#80
That's the grifter's game, selling more books to congregants of the Church of Stupid.
hunter
Jan 2017
#81
Sometimes I wish I hadnt had so many "I-opening" entheogenic experiences as a lad
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2017
#82
They are the snowflakiest of all, Trump and the alt-right Nazi's, they CRUMPLE
Maru Kitteh
Jan 2017
#67
Free Speech is about the government not being able to censor speech, not a private institution
Beaverhausen
Jan 2017
#69
It's exactly like the posters who scream how DU hates free speech just before MIRT shuts them down.
hunter
Jan 2017
#77