Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter performance

No, he shouldn't.
I feel our president should set a good example, be someone we can look up to. A serial adultering liar doesn't fill the bill for me.
I remark on women's looks, but I'm not president.

 

Not sure what's sadder, that you have to refer to an 80s movie (over and over) for nostalgia over something that never really happened, or that you don't know the difference between Jim and John Belushi.

 

Uncle Bill Clinton blazed the serial adultering liar trail.

 

That's Morgan Jones after meeting Eastman.

 

Glad to hear you don't approve of Bill Clinton.

 

"Bigoted"? How? Why can't you people on the left offer something more substantial of an argument than "you're racist!"

Makes you sound like small whiny children, it doesn't improve your standing, at all.

 

Yuk, yuk, yuk..

 

It wasn't a joke. We know for a fact that he is a serial adultering liar. Seriously.

 

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And I have never considered Trump to be the epitome of virtue so I am never disappointed when he doesn't live up to that bill.

A distinction without merit.

 

True. Trump is on his third marriage, and he lies like a rug.

 

Hey, at least he changed wives, instead of just keeping the same one and cheating on her with every woman in sight, like Bill Clinton does.

 

I voted for Ross Perot in two elections.

 

Glad to hear it; he was the correct select. In that case, you could have just said, "No I don't approve of Bill Clinton" when you were asked.

 

And ruin your diversion from Trump guilt?

 

That's what the cops are for.

 

Oh, get ready to be disappointed at the very least. They lurrrrrvvvvs their LW trolls around here. A flagrant one got banned yesterday and no telling how many dozens of violations were allowed before anything was done.

 

Seems odd to me that public schools cannot violate the constitution by establishing a religion, but public universities can violate the constitution by abridging the freedom of speech.

In both cases the issue is not the offense per se, privately funded schools can teach religion all they want. The issue is the state funding. The state should not be funding things which are contrary to its constitution. It should not be getting its proxies to do its dirty work.

 

Other than the fact that the Supreme Court has already rulled that you cannot prevent someone from speaking because of how those who disagree might react.

To allow such would be to allow the state to chill speech through the hecklers veto.

 

Drudge link says they have rescinded the cancellation and Coulter is back on, has anyone verified this or posted verification in the thread yet?

 

Here is the thing they cant. They have to provide equal access to all speakers. They however have lots of other peoples money to play with. They know full well that being in the 9th circuit it would take the Supreme Court to stop them. And even then they personally have no responsibility only the university.

 

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Ann is selling a load of books to Trump supporters & speaking at Berkley again.

 

As I have maintained, I respect Berkeley's right to decide to whom it provides venues, should allow controversial characters like Coulter to perform, but must first take the necessary steps to insure the safety of all involved.

Apparently, Berkeley has now achieved the essential requirements to protect students.

Whether Ms Coulter refuses to accept the invitation and chooses, instead, to endanger all involved to generate publicity is now her decision.

Meanwhile, the neo-nazi Daily Stormer lauds the ideological entertainer they call "the famous White-power author Ann Coulter", as is their right:

 

If US campuses can’t protect free speech, they need new management
By Post Editorial Board

April 20, 2017

UC-Berkeley this week canceled an April 27 Ann Coulter speech, fearing riots. This lunacy will only grow until colleges start standing up decisively for free speech.

The school is trying to negotiate a new date, venue and ground rules with the group that invited her, but so far has failed.

Its worry is obvious: Masked, rock-throwing thugs prevented a February speech by Milo Yiannopoulos. And the area saw 20 arrests last weekend as extremists of left and right battled in the streets.

But the answer to disorder is order: Put on extra security; keep non-students far from the campus event — and have the police trained and ready for trouble.

Berkeley’s move follows the Black Lives Matter disruption of a UCLA speech by the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald, and efforts to muzzle her the next night at Claremont-Pomona College — 200-odd protesters chanting “Shut it down!” and “From Oakland to Greece, f - - k the police.”

Last month, goons stopped American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray from delivering a moderately conservative talk at Middlebury College, with Professor Allison Stanger hospitalized by the violence.

More and more college students think it’s proper to act out this way. They proudly deny the free-speech rights of people whose writings they haven’t even read. (The Wellesley Review blather that we noted on Sunday is among the more coherent of these screeds; others are painfully ignorant.)

The kids are plainly learning this nonsense at college — which means professors and administrators are failing at their most fundamental duties.

If they’re even trying.

Worse, all this is surely the public tip of the iceberg: How much worse is it in the classrooms?

Increasingly, US campuses are the exact opposite of the bastions of free thought and debate they’re supposed to be. If the schools can’t save themselves, society has every right to demand new management.




Liberals have crippled kids with their intolerant messages. Why? For votes, of course....they don't care about them. These "universities" are nothing but propaganda factories that churn out wimps instead of confident young adults who are capable of being self sufficient. They have brainwashed them. A report came out that more millenials are living with mommy and daddy than living with a spouse. It's time that something is done about these universities and it is time that parents steer these kids away from these bad choices.