Texas university cancels Republican’s speech as Black Lives Matter shouts lawmaker down

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by Mac-7, Oct 16, 2017.

  1. Mac-7

    Mac-7 Banned

    Joined:
    Apr 21, 2011
    Messages:
    86,664
    Likes Received:
    17,636
    Trophy Points:
    113
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/...wn-congressman-at-conservative-student-event/


    The university claims that the event was not approved but the conservate students who invited the speaker say they had approval

    The protesters are an example of whats wrong with academics on America
     
    guavaball, myview, glitch and 3 others like this.
  2. 9royhobbs

    9royhobbs Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 25, 2015
    Messages:
    14,895
    Likes Received:
    5,404
    Trophy Points:
    113
    What does BLM have to do with this? The quote block you have is not in the article linked at all. You have completely twisted this to something that is not true.
     
    Durandal likes this.
  3. Channe

    Channe Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    May 16, 2013
    Messages:
    14,961
    Likes Received:
    4,064
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Then something unexpected happened. University President Austin Lane entered the room, invited the protesters back in and claimed that the Federalist Society had not gone through the proper channels to invite a campus speaker. He then cancelled the event, drawing applause from the protesters.

    Here's a pic of the president; Guess who's side he's on.

    upload_2017-10-16_12-29-27.jpeg
     
    Last edited: Oct 16, 2017
    sawyer and headhawg7 like this.
  4. hawgsalot

    hawgsalot Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2017
    Messages:
    10,339
    Likes Received:
    9,537
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    You might click the link and find out, there's a picture right when you open it that clearly shows Black Lives Matter Tshirts and posters so I guess your the one not being honest?
     
    AltLightPride and headhawg7 like this.
  5. PT78

    PT78 Banned

    Joined:
    Jul 24, 2015
    Messages:
    2,780
    Likes Received:
    2,122
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    I don't really know what the protesters problem is here...but I am not a big fan of trying to not let people speak (on either 'side' of the political aisle).

    I mean, what is the difference between Trumpbots trying to stop NFL players from kneeling and these people trying to stop this guy from speaking (whomever the heck he is)?

    They both sound like they are trying to take away the Right of Free Speech/Freedom of Expression...and they are both wrong, IMO.

    Saying you don't like what someone legally says/does is fine. Trying to stop them from doing it is not to me. It smacks of bullying.
     
    Last edited: Oct 16, 2017
  6. hawgsalot

    hawgsalot Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 6, 2017
    Messages:
    10,339
    Likes Received:
    9,537
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    The difference i
    One is people complaining and showing displeasure by not going or watching the game, the other is forcibly not allowing people to speak. They couldn't be more different.
     
  7. Doofenshmirtz

    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    Jan 21, 2016
    Messages:
    28,024
    Likes Received:
    19,312
    Trophy Points:
    113
    “No hate anywhere, you don’t get a platform here!” protesters yelled inside the room.

    Should someone tell them that using free speech to protest free speech might work against them??
     
    Thirty6BelowZero likes this.
  8. Jimmy79

    Jimmy79 Banned

    Joined:
    Nov 28, 2014
    Messages:
    9,366
    Likes Received:
    5,074
    Trophy Points:
    113
    You realize that in the US today, you are likely to be labeled a racist for comments like this.
     
    Oh Yeah and headhawg7 like this.
  9. PT78

    PT78 Banned

    Joined:
    Jul 24, 2015
    Messages:
    2,780
    Likes Received:
    2,122
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Wrong.

    http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/22/donald-trump-blasts-nfl-flag-kneeling-get-sob-field

    POTUS FROMST (Fat Racist Old Moronic Senile Trump) is not just 'showing displeasure by not going or watching the game'. He is trying to physically stop players from kneeling (and insulting their mother's at the same time).
     
    Last edited: Oct 16, 2017
    tres borrachos and Durandal like this.
  10. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,518
    Likes Received:
    27,044
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    whose
     
    tres borrachos and PT78 like this.
  11. ChoppedLiver

    ChoppedLiver Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Nov 7, 2015
    Messages:
    5,703
    Likes Received:
    2,224
    Trophy Points:
    113
    He's on the racist side.
     
    glitch and headhawg7 like this.
  12. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,518
    Likes Received:
    27,044
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Oh, I like that. As soon as someone is pictured in a BLM t-shirt, that instantly makes this thing BLM, like, officially. *L*
     
    ellesdee and tres borrachos like this.
  13. Guess Who

    Guess Who Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 30, 2014
    Messages:
    3,074
    Likes Received:
    1,189
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I was just telling another one of you that if it was right in your face you would deny it.
    If you CHOOSE not to see the BLM 'likely a thug' standing in the front with his BLM shirt on then why ask for proof HE IS NOT THERE?
     
    headhawg7 and Thirty6BelowZero like this.
  14. Guess Who

    Guess Who Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 30, 2014
    Messages:
    3,074
    Likes Received:
    1,189
    Trophy Points:
    113
    It got worse in last 2 minutes more blind mice.
     
  15. Durandal

    Durandal Well-Known Member Donor

    Joined:
    May 25, 2012
    Messages:
    55,518
    Likes Received:
    27,044
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    The university, however, has a right to regulate time, place, and manner. That’s something that universities have the right to always regulate, which is time, place, and manner, and that today has not been done. So that’s why this event will be cancelled until we have the appropriate [drowned out by applause]. So, again, we welcome free speech, but we need the ability to make sure we can handle whatever guest is coming here today. I appreciate — I didn’t know about it, and I just happened to be with another Senator here, Senator Boris Miles, we were out doing some other things early on. We were glad that we were able to meet, and I look forward to going out and talking with, is it Representative Cain? I look forward to talking with him as well to make sure that we all get on the same page. … We’ll go back to the drawing board to make sure that if in fact we have speakers that come in, and that’s fine, but we need to make sure that we regulate the time, place, and manner, and not the speech. Let me say that again because [something] a lot of people will pick that up. Universities can regulate time, place, and manner, and we have not done that today through our appropriate processes. … If there is another event that is scheduled to be here in the law school, in this particular room, then we need that to occur. … It’s my job to make sure that nothing, absolutely nothing, disrupts the academic environment.

    ***

    Rep. Cain released a statement yesterday after the incident, claiming that the heckler’s veto won the day at Texas Southern University.

    Today I attended an event scheduled by the TSU chapter of the Federalist Society a few months ago. I was greeted by campus officials, given a guest parking voucher, and brought into a room in which the administration had specifically requested the talk occur. Then Black Lives Matter came in and bullied the administration into ending the event. It’s a sad day for universities across Texas whenever speech and a variety of views are prevented from being presented due to bullies.

    ***

    TSU has released a statement:

    Texas Southern University welcomes free speech and all viewpoints on campus as part of our collegiate experience. Today’s event, which was scheduled at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, ended early because it was not a registered university student organization event.

    Our campus is open and welcoming to all state and elected officials. TSU President Dr. Austin Lane was meeting with a state senator when he received word of the event at the Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Dr. Lane went to the event to see State Rep. Briscoe Cain, students and faculty, and then learned that it was an unauthorized Texas Southern University student organization event. Our vice president of Student Affairs has since met with the student organizer and informed him of university procedures. Several events have been cancelled in the past on campus because procedures were not followed. We welcome the return of any guest speaker for deliberative dialogue on our campus in accordance with university procedures.

    https://coed.com/2017/10/10/texas-s...wn-speech-video-austin-lane-briscoe-cain-blm/
     
  16. 9royhobbs

    9royhobbs Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 25, 2015
    Messages:
    14,895
    Likes Received:
    5,404
    Trophy Points:
    113
    I see one guy, ONE guy with a BLM t-shirt. So what.
    Here's the guy they didn't like
    https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-best-and-worst-legislators-2017/
    "
    We typically exempt freshmen from the Worst list. We usually forgive their trangressions, because they don’t know how the Legislature works. So just know that we tried. We tried really hard to give Briscoe Cain a pass. But he left us little choice.

    When we asked Capitol insiders for Worst list suggestions, his name, almost universally, was the first one mentioned. "
     
  17. Mac-7

    Mac-7 Banned

    Joined:
    Apr 21, 2011
    Messages:
    86,664
    Likes Received:
    17,636
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Texas Southern is a formerly all black college
     
  18. Super21

    Super21 Banned

    Joined:
    Mar 17, 2013
    Messages:
    4,689
    Likes Received:
    507
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    ButterBalls, myview and headhawg7 like this.
  19. tres borrachos

    tres borrachos Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 21, 2015
    Messages:
    11,291
    Likes Received:
    6,577
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Female
    What you did there. I see it.
     
  20. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 10, 2015
    Messages:
    46,841
    Likes Received:
    18,955
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    OMG So did someone catch the OP in a lie or maybe just a strangling of the truth by the OP.?
     
    Last edited: Oct 16, 2017
  21. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 10, 2015
    Messages:
    46,841
    Likes Received:
    18,955
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Did he side with the "Coloreds" ? LOL
     
    Last edited: Oct 16, 2017
  22. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 10, 2015
    Messages:
    46,841
    Likes Received:
    18,955
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    Ok Ingive up, whose?
     
  23. JakeJ

    JakeJ Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    May 5, 2015
    Messages:
    27,360
    Likes Received:
    8,062
    Trophy Points:
    113
    The photo shows the protesters wearing "Black Lives Matters" T-shirts.
     
    guavaball likes this.
  24. JakeJ

    JakeJ Well-Known Member Past Donor

    Joined:
    May 5, 2015
    Messages:
    27,360
    Likes Received:
    8,062
    Trophy Points:
    113
    So you also didn't even click on the link and are going to join the lie that there was no linkage to BLM to try to derail this topic too? The photo of the protesters shows they are BLM protesters.
     
  25. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 10, 2015
    Messages:
    46,841
    Likes Received:
    18,955
    Trophy Points:
    113
    Gender:
    Male
    One guy wearing a BLM tshirt. If there was one guy in a Trump tshjrt at Charlottesville with the Nazjs, white supremacists, and KKK pigs would it have been proper to say they were conducting a Trump rally.
     

Share This Page