More liberal censorship

[Jefferson]

UC Berkeley Bans Ann Coulter

The campus that is the home of the historical free speech movement, UC Berkeley, has banned conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter, citing security threats.
According to Young America’s Foundation, student organizers of an upcoming Ann Coulter event at the university were emailed by Berkeley administrators who claimed they were unable to “find a safe suitable venue” for Coulter.

“Young America’s Foundation, BridgeCal and Berkeley College Republicans have been working together to produce a lecture at UC-Berkeley on April 27, 2017, by Ann Coulter, a twelve-time bestselling author, whose book, ‘Adios, America!’ – a No. 2 New York Times bestseller — is widely credited with shaping President Donald Trump’s immigration views,” announced Young America’s Foundation in a press release, Wednesday. “The topic of her speech was immigration.”

“UC-Berkeley, a publicly-funded university, first imposed a series of ridiculous requirements on the speech allegedly in the name of ‘safety.’ Coulter, we were informed, would be required to deliver her speech in the afternoon; only students would be allowed to attend; and the speech location would not be announced until close to the event,” they continued. “Against our advice, Coulter agreed to all these requirements. In return, she requested two measures, which actually had something to do with safety.”

1) That the University of California chancellor request that the Oakland chief of police refrain from telling his men to stand down and ignore law-breaking by rioters attempting to shut down conservative speakers, as he has done in the past; and

2) That UC-Berkeley announce in advance that any students engaging in violence, mayhem or heckling to prevent an invited speaker from speaking would be expelled.

As Coulter explained, “If Berkeley wants to have free speech, it can have it.”

The university’s response was to ban her speech.

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[kmoney]

I think the university is in a tough spot. If there are genuine security concerns then I can understand trying to reschedule or something along those lines. I put more fault on the whiny liberals who can't stand having Coulter come to the school. If you want to have some sort of peaceful protest while she's there, fine, but it's ridiculous to turn violent.

 

[Nick M]

I think the university is in a tough spot. If there are genuine security concerns

What? So they say they will get violent if she speaks. Do you yet realize the only violence at Trump rallies was people paid by the Clinton crime family to start fights? Same thing here. They are not concerned about security in general. They are making a threat of violence against her. Soros already has everybody ready to riot if she shows up and professes liberty.

 

[ok doser]

if berkeley police can't or won't keep the peace, shouldn't they be investigated for incompetence or corruption by the justice department?

 

[kmoney]

I heard a debate today about this topic. http://the1a.org/shows/2017-04-25/too-pc-or-not-pc-the-debate-over-free-speech-on-campus

One point that was made, it might have even been a listener, said that Coulter isn't interested in honest dialogue and an exchange of ideas, potentially controversial ones. She is about using inflammatory speech to sell her brand, so it's ok to try to shut her out. That might be true in the case of Coulter, but who gets to decide what honest dialogue is? And what if it's a mixture of both? :idunno:

A big concern that was brought up is that if we let threats of protests and violence shut down speech then it will only encourage more of it. One of the speakers also said that the Supreme Court has generally sided with allowing the speech to happen unless there is a clear and present danger. Shutting down a speech in advance doesn't seem to meet that bar.