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Why do some speakers with controversial views get to speak while others are shouted down or cancelled due to safety concerns?

 

I know not every university is the same.

 

How can someone like Iran's Ahmadinejad be able to speak without getting shouted down off stage or enough of a student/alumni uproar to cause a speaking cancellation? 

Yet, we've seen time and time again when some speakers cause such an uproar that the event is cancelled.

 Why some controversy is fine, while other controversy is not fine?

 

According to this article: http://columbiaspectator.com/eye/2016/11/15/inviting-controversy-logistics-bringing-controversial-speakers-campus/

 

Columbia University allowed Ahmadinejad to speak Yet, only a year earlier, Jim Gilchrist (Minuteman Project) was invited to speak, only he wasn't allowed to finish.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Auburn85 said:

How can someone like Iran's Ahmadinejad be able to speak without getting shouted down off stage or enough of a student/alumni uproar to cause a speaking cancellation? 

 This is how out of touch today's leftist are at the universities. When he said that there are no homosexuals in Iran, he wasn't being cute, sarcastic, or funny. He literally meant that he did not think that there were homosexuals in his country. They teach that such vices are a product of Western culture.  And what did the audience of mostly students do, how did they react? They laughed ! Really! They thought he was attempting humor...  it is beyond their realm of comprehension that what actually happens in Iran (  and virtually all Muslim countries   ) is that homosexuals are tossed off high buildings, or hung to death. 

 So while the left openly accepts a militant Iranian dictator whose country kills gays, they riot when a gay conservative here in the United States tries to speak. 

 Oh so tolerant, so open, so inclusive. 

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Ann Coulter gets pies thrown at her while trying to speak.

 

A small Vermont college has a convicted cop killer give their commencement speech. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2014/10/01/college-sparks-outrage-with-commencement-invitation-to-jailed-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal/?utm_term=.8eb4bd8079c4

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Some U.C. Berkeley students tried to block entrances to prevent a conservative to speak.

http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/26/campus-protesters-try-to-silence-conservative-speaker-demand-college-presidents-resignation/

 

Some U.C. Berkeley students protested Louis Farrakhan, but did not block entrances to prevent him from speaking.

http://patch.com/california/berkeley/farrakhan-s-controversial-uc-berkeley-speech-prompts-580170b21c

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In early 2014 Brandeis University in Massachusetts announced that Ali would be given an honorary degree at the graduation commencement ceremony. In early April, after review of her statements due to opposition by the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) and lobbying by Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Head of the Islamic Studies Department, other faculty members and several student groups, the university rescinded its offer

It's part of the Leftist establishment. UC  Berkeley assaulter was a paid employee of the school, and so it only stands to reason that they'd flat out ban anyone who speaks out against matters which define the Left. 

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Depaul University refused to host Ben Shapiro.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/08/02/depaul-refuses-host-conservative-pundit

 

 

 

Ward Churchill was allowed to speak.

 

https://www.thefire.org/cases/depaul-university-censorship-of-student-group-protesting-ward-churchill/

 

Plus, the school did this:

 

https://www.thefire.org/depaul-forbids-student-group-to-protest-ward-churchill/

 

 

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Churchill, who made news earlier this year for describing victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center as “little Eichmanns,” was scheduled to lecture and lead a workshop for student groups on October 20 and 21. In protest, DePaul’s College Republicans (CRs) printed flyers that quoted some of Churchill’s controversial remarks. DePaul’s Office of Student Life banned the CRs from posting the flyers, citing a remarkably vague policy prohibiting “propaganda.” The CRs, understandably confused as to how quoting a speaker’s own words could be “propaganda,” put up some flyers anyway, leading to aformal warning from DePaul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DePaul Forbids Student Group to Protest Ward Churchill

 

Forbids 1st Amendment Rights ??  Gee, that sounds a tad.... oh, I don't know, maybe  FASCIST ???? 

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http://www.addisonindependent.com/201703middlebury-college-professor-injured-protesters-she-escorted-controversial-speaker

 

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Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she was escorting a controversial speaker from campus. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.

Charles Murray, a political scientist who has been criticized for his views on race and intelligence, was invited to speak on campus by a student group. He was greeted late Thursday afternoon outside McCullough Student Center by hundreds of protesters, and inside Wilson Hall, students turned their backs to him when he got up to speak.

College officials led Murray to another location and a closed circuit broadcast showed him being interviewed by Stanger, the Russell J. Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics.

As Stanger, Murray and a college administrator left McCullough Student Center last evening following the event, they were “physically and violently confronted by a group of protestors,” according to Bill Burger, the college’s vice president for communications and marketing.

Burger said college public safety officers managed to get Stanger and Murray into the administrator’s car.

“The protestors then violently set upon the car, rocking it, pounding on it, jumping on and try to prevent it from leaving campus,” he said. “At one point a large traffic sign was thrown in front of the car. Public Safety officers were able, finally, to clear the way to allow the vehicle to leave campus.

“During this confrontation outside McCullough, one of the demonstrators pulled Prof. Stanger’s hair and twisted her neck,” Burger continued. “She was attended to at Porter Hospital later and (on Friday) is wearing a neck brace.”

Murray, who apparently was unhurt in the incident, is best known for his 1994 book, “The Bell Curve,” for which he was criticized for an assertion that people of different races have different economic outcomes because of their inherent difference in intelligence.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has called Murray a “white nationalist” who has used “racist pseudoscience.”

 

 

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http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/01/watch-a-liberal-bro-student-calmly-destr

 

 

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Watch a Liberal Bro Student Calmly Destroy the Berkeley College Republicans' Property

 

A member of the University of California-Berkeley College Republicans caught a young man in the act of destroying the group's large wooden sign on campus.

The perpetrator is presumed to be a student—a witness described him as such.

The CR began recording the incident, which transpired at Sproul Plaza on Tuesday. This did not deter the perpetrator, who continued smashing the sign into smaller pieces.

"You just vandalized our property," said the person recording the video.

"Yeah," replied the perpetrator. "I did."

You can watch the video below: it's one of the more chill acts of illiberalism I've ever seen. The perpetrator even asked the CR if he knows whether the sign should be composted, or placed in the trash.

"I believe that would be compost," the CR replied, because this is Berkeley, after all.

At one point, a female student in league with the sign-destroyer asks the CR to stop recording the destruction of his group's property. She asserted that he had no legal right to record them without permission. That's funny for two reasons: one, it's wrong—there's no expectation of privacy in a public place—and two, the vandals were already breaking the law, anyway.

The altercation likely represents continuing fallout from the CR's decision to bring Milo Yiannopoulos to campus last month. Anti-fascist protesters—most of whom were not students—crashed the event, smashed windows, and started fires, ultimately preventing Yiannopoulos from speaking.

Organized "black bloc" rioters were responsible for shutting down Yiannopoulos. But illiberal leftist college students often try to silence their perceived opponents as well. An onlooker defended the student's actions, claiming that he was merely exercising his own "free speech" rights. This is a perversion of the concept: free speech does not and cannot include the right to deny someone equal use of a public space, or shout them down at a forum, or destroy their belongings.

 

 

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/columbia-university-socialists-demand-right-to-shame-charles-murray/

 

 

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Columbia University Socialists Demand Right To Shame Charles Murray

 

Three weeks after leftist protesters violently shut down Charles Murray‘s lecture at Middlebury College, students at Columbia University are demanding that the event be changed into “a debate in which Murray could have his ideas challenged and dissected.”

On Thursday, Campus Reform spotlighted how the Ivy League school’s student newspaper, Columbia Spectator, published anopinion piece from the student group Barnard Columbia Socialists on Wednesday.

The radical leftist students denounced the Murray event, contending that “it is a grave disservice to the Columbia University community and beyond that these student groups (Columbia University College Republicans and the Columbia Political Union) have opted to invite Murray to spew his racist and discredited ideas in an uncontested and staged format.”

While they gave the right to free speech some lip service (“We do not believe the University should be asked to arbitrate what hate speech is and isn’t”), the socialist activists pushed for “an open discussion period during which students and other members of the community can not only ask questions but also make their own arguments about the impact of Murray’s ideas.”

Campus Reform‘s article pointed out that the op-ed was published “just two days before Murray’s scheduled appearance.” They added that “there has been no indication that the hosts will capitulate to the demand, particularly since the op-ed failed to note that the Columbia AEI Council was the group actually responsible for inviting Murray to campus, and simply had to enlist the help of two more-established student groups because it is still a new organization.”

The president of this new student group, Jonathan Schatz-Mizrahi, criticized the ideological climate on Columbia’s campus: “Noting that many Columbia students live in an ‘elite liberal bubble,’ Schatz-Mizrahi expressed hope that Murray’s detractors would at least ‘engage in a civil and intellectual dialogue.'”

It should be pointed out that conservatives have long faced hostility at the Ivy League institution. In 1998, a conference featuring speakers critical of affirmative action was protested, then shut out of the school. More recently, Columbia College Democrats bought up the tickets to a 2013 event featuring social conservative speakers, and a September 2016 article in The College Fix detailed the hostility that conservative students faced at Columbia.

 

 

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/blm-hounds-conservative-author-at-california-college-plans-to-shut-down-next-event/

 

BLM Protesters Blast Conservative Author’s ‘Bulls**t,’ Plan To ‘Shut Down’ Next Event

Liberal activists, including members of Black Lives Matter, disrupted a lecture by conservative author Heather MacDonald at UCLA on Wednesday. Left-wing allies of theirs at the nearby Claremont Colleges plan to “shut down” her planned event on Thursday.

The College Fix website detailed the UCLA protests in a Thursday post. The College Republicans at the California university sponsored the writer’s speech as a “Blue Lives Matter” event, and it was broadcast via Facebook Live (see video below).

The protesters arrived halfway through MacDonald’s lecture. A group stormed the area near the podium where the writer was standing and chanted, “Black lives — they matter here! Black lives, they matter here!”

MacDonald, who released the book “War on Cops” in 2016, then took questions from the audience. She sparred with one protester who wondered whether “black victims killed by cops” mattered.

Another demonstrator in the audience shouted, “You have no right to speak!”

MacDonald was reportedly escorted off campus at the end of the event.

The conservative author plans to speak at the Claremont McKenna College on Thursday. The Claremont Independent publication covered the planned disruption of the event in a Thursday article. A Facebook event advertising the protest attacked MacDonald as an “anti-black fascist.”

The organizers wildly claimed that she is “vocally against the Black Lives Matter movement and pro-police, both of which show her fascist ideologies and blatant anti-Blackness and white supremacy.” They called on shutting down the event, in order to “prevent MacDonald from spewing her racist, anti-Black, capitalist, imperialist, fascist agenda.”

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elle, homer, usn, texas... ANYONE care to respond ? 

 

ANYONE ? 

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/hate-speech-wichita-state-u-student-govt-rejects-dangerous-libertarian-group/

 

 

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‘Hate Speech’: Wichita State U. Student Govt. Rejects ‘Dangerous’ Libertarian Group

The student senate of Kansas’s Wichita State University rejected official recognition of a newly-formed chapter of the libertarian Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), after some claimed that the organization promotes “hate speech.”

The Sunflower, a student newspaper at the university, reported on the 8-16 vote in a Thursday article. Student senator Sandra Carlo gave lip service to the right to free speech, but claimed that “what we have seen from this organization is dangerous.”

Another student senator opposed to the YAL, Zubair Kahn, argued that “if we want to have a libertarian organization on campus, there are other ways to do that.”

However, student senator Timothy Dodd was more open-minded: “I want to give this specific chapter of the organization a chance to show that libertarianism as a political philosophy doesn’t have to be pigeon-holed as racist and reactionary.”

The Sunflower write-up highlighted that “Young Americans for Liberty advocates for the First Amendment even when others worry the delicate line between free speech and hate speech has been crossed.”

The student publication also zeroed in on how “various [YAL] chapters across the nation have hosted controversial former Breitbart News Tech Editor, Milo Yiannopoulos on his ‘Dangerous homosexual Tour,’ speaking out against feminism and Black Lives Matter, and accusing LGBTQ individuals of blowing hate crimes out of proportion.”

Wichita State University might be facing litigation in the wake of this vote on free speech grounds. The leader of the YAL chapter at Pierce College in California recently sued the school after he was forbidden to hand out copies of the U.S. Constitution outside of a designated “free speech zone.”

 

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7 hours ago, homersapien said:

Rapture is a lying weasel.

How's that?

No idea who that is, but it shows you're a coward for not even addressing the issue.

 

And that's no lie! ;)

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http://dailysignal.com/2017/04/07/claremont-university-students-shut-down-conservative-speaker/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

 

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Claremont University Students Shut Down Conservative Speaker

Protesters at the Claremont Colleges successfully prevented conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald from speaking on their campus.

Students at the Claremont Colleges, a consortium of undergraduate and graduate liberal arts colleges in Claremont, California, blocked entrances to the building that Mac Donald was scheduled to speak in.

Mac Donald, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, was giving a speech titled “The War on Police,” a reference to her 2016 book about how political rhetoric against police makes America less safe.

Mac Donald was forced to livestream her speech after protesters blocked students and professors from entering the building.

According to the school’s newspaper, The Forum, 250 students watched Mac Donald speak. Students had to submit questions via email.

“Among other chants, protesters yelled ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘How do you spell fascism? CMC!’ while banging on windows of the [Athenaeum],” according to The Forum.

Mac Donald was a guest of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, a research institute on the campus of Claremont McKenna College, a member of the Claremont Consortium.

Peter Uvin, vice president of academic affairs for Claremont McKenna College, said in an email to students after the incident: “I fully understand that people have strong opinions and different—often painful—experiences with the issues Heather Mac Donald discusses. I also understand that words can hurt.”

Uvin went on to condemn the students’ behavior, saying, “What we face here is not an attempt to demonstrate, or to ask tough questions of our speaker, all of which are both protected and cherished on this campus, but rather to make it impossible for her to speak, for you to listen, and for all of us to debate. This we could not accept.”

Many conservative speakers have been protested on college campuses in recent months.

In March, students protested Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, while he was giving a speech at Middlebury College. Milo Yiannopoulos, a former editor at Breitbart, was also violently protested when he attempted to speak at Berkeley this past February.

Murray was able to give his speech, talking over screaming demonstrators, while Yiannopoulos was forced to cancel his speech and leave campus, thanks to a police escort.

Mary Clare Reim, an education policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, cited a pattern, telling The Daily Signal in an email:

We can now add Heather Mac Donald to the long list of experts whose voices have been shut down on college campuses. From Middlebury to Berkeley, college students and administrators continue to treat conservative viewpoints with hostility and sometimes violence.

Reim went on to encourage institutions to re-evaluate their purpose, writing, “Universities have an obligation to protect First Amendment rights on campus. Unfortunately, recent events suggest that many universities no longer take that obligation seriously.”

 

 

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On 4/6/2017 at 7:30 PM, AURaptor said:

elle, homer, usn, texas... ANYONE care to respond ? 

 

ANYONE ? 

Expecting rational actions from college students is WRONG!

A lot of these kids are rebelling from conservative parents and have professors constantly whipping them into a frenzy. To the point that they see conservatives not as "different" or "wrong" but as evil.

 

 

What's that saying about if I can make you believe absurdities I can make you commit atrocities?

These instances brought up in the thread are by no means the worst that humans can do, but it does show how easily someone can be swayed to act out of character by instilling radical beliefs in them.

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 It also speaks to the universities themselves to support and/or condone such actions. Like the crazy lady at Missouri. 

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On 2/4/2017 at 0:57 PM, AURaptor said:

No response from the other side ? Interesting. 

We are all on the same side.  Allowing ourselves to be divided is foolish.  Promoting the division is self-destruction.

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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/04/11/uc-berkeley-presses-campus-republicans-to-cancel-another-conservative-speaker/

 

"Conservative Writer David Horowitz’s Talk At UC Berkeley Cancelled Due To Security Concerns

 

BERKELEY (KPIX 5) — There’s another challenge to free speech on the Cal campus.

College Republicans say they were forced to cancel a conservative speaker because of too many administration roadblocks.

But some are concerned about the cancellation.

The university’s efforts to prevent an encore of the violent protests that forced them to cancel a talk by conservative activist Milo Yiannopoulos, have, according to campus Republicans, stifled free speech and made it increasingly difficult to bring conservative thinkers to Cal.

Berkeley Campus Republicans spokesperson Troy Worden said, “There is such a thing as the heckler’s veto. Basically, if they’re loud enough and violent enough, then they succeed in shutting down your event.”

Campus Republicans canceled an upcoming appearance by David Horowitz after university police told them that to insure they could provide adequate security…the event would have to be held in the middle of the day…and outside the center of campus.

UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said, “We’re sorry they had to cancel it. It has nothing to do whatsoever with the speaker’s perspective and everything to do with what law enforcement professionals believed needed to be done to provide a safe and secure event.”

Students say they’re troubled by the violence, by the willingness to drown out opinions with which you don’t agree.

Berkeley student Rachel Feher said, “I think of this campus as emblematic of what free speech should be — and what it was in the 1960s. And it saddening for me as a student to see that those same values are not as well encompassed today.”

The university says it’s committed to providing a safe and secure environment for guest speakers, but can’t guarantee they’ll be given a prime time slot in the heart of campus.

But campus Republicans say they shouldn’t have to choose between security and free speech.

Worden said, “The policy they have for dealing with these outside groups really does tacitly approve of and encourage the violence we have seen.”

The decision to cancel Horowitz’s speech was, in part, strategic. Campus Republicans say they’re focusing their efforts on an appearance by Ann Coulter, which is scheduled for April 27th."

 
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