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In reply to the discussion: UC Davis shut down Yannopoulos, Shkreli event. Free Speech questions abound [View all]dionysus
(26,467 posts)86. Rigjt. To not hear it by not being there, not by preventing them from saying it.
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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