Left-Fascist Savages Triumph: ‘Hate Speech’ Hysteria Wins Again In Berkeley

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The poisonous fruit of the left’s long march into academia. They have destroyed our universities and colleges, with public school education not far behind. Inculcation, indoctrination and brainwashing. Why do our taxpayer dollars still go to these treasonous machines? WE are funding the new Nazi-esque youth movement. We are funding the war on freedom, truth and individual rights.

The universities are the fifth column. We must not fund them. Truth is indeed the new hate speech.  My colleagues and I are not allowed to speak. Conservative professors are bordering on extinction. Pro-Israel voices are harassed, bullied, and beaten. The universities are radioactive wastelands of leftist indoctrination.

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“‘Hate Speech’ Hysteria Wins Again In Berkeley,” by Scott Greer, Daily Caller, April 26, 2017:

“Hate speech” has risen to the fore of public debate recently thanks to the turmoil surrounding Ann Coulter’s just cancelled appearance at UC Berkeley.

The famous conservative commentator had to pull out of her speaking engagement following dithering from the university and threats from leftist agitators. The final nail in the coffin for her appearance came in the form of her sponsor group, Young America’s Foundation, withdrawing support from the event.

All of the furor against Coulter was based on the assumption that her views amount to “hate speech,” which, according to many on the Left, has no justification for being expressed on a college campus.

Last week, former Vermont governor Howard Dean weighed in on the matter by declaring, “Hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.”

Dean’s argument, which is not at all supported by legal precedent, was quickly roasted on Twitter and throughout the Internet. However, that just prompted the one-time presidential candidate to double down on his belief that hate speech is not protected by the Constitution.

Even the liberal American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is defending Coulter’s right to speak and firmly stating it’s protected by the Constitution.

Considering the lack of a good legal argument for suppressing so-called hate speech, it’s a wonder how anyone can justify censoring views they deem offensive. That’s because the more prevalent view for the vanguard of the left is to ignore the Constitution and go straight to emotional appeals about protecting vulnerable groups from danger.

The New York Times gave a platform to this view on Monday by publishing an essay from New York University vice provost Ulrich Baer. Baer dispensed with Constitutional justification, which there’s little, and went straight for feel-good, moralistic reasoning on making the world a more equal place.

Baer argued in his op-ed that we shouldn’t be obligated to allow those who express opinions that “invalidate the humanity of some people” to speak freely. Instead, “We would do better to focus on a more sophisticated understanding… of the necessary conditions for speech to be a common, public good. This requires the realization that in politics, the parameters of public speech must be continually redrawn to accommodate those who previously had no standing.”

The meaning here is that if protected classes in society say that a view offends them, then the common good dictates for that speech to be suppressed. Just like the Founders intended!

Baer was mocked by an assortment of conservatives for his un-American viewpoint, but it is increasingly in line with the reasoning of the campus Left.

If hate speech eventually becomes a crime in America, its justification won’t be based on Constitutional grounds or really any historical precedent in this country. It will be all about how a diverse society like ours needs it in order to defend protected classes from opinions they don’t like. The scary thought is that argument might be enough for lawmakers to enact legislation to outlaw hate speech.

It hardly needs to be stated that such a measure would be a slippery slope to penalizing a whole range of opinions that run afoul of the powers that be and negate the whole purpose of having free speech.

As I document in my book, “No Campus for White Men,” colleges have become the breeding ground for a new moral culture, dubbed by sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning as victimhood culture, that allows for this anti-speech mentality to fester.

Victimhood culture places oppression as the highest status one can achieve, and designated victims enjoy the status of virtuous and good in this system. Thus, when professors or students are pointing towards “disadvantaged” groups for why speech should be censored, the voice of the victims weighs far more in the matter than that of legal documents crafted by privileged, white slave owners.

Appeals to victims and talk of “ensuring their safety” figure heavily in the decisions of whether universities should allow certain speakers a platform. When calling for figures such as Coulter or Milo Yiannopoulos to be shut down, activists always cite how the speakers’ views threaten their well-being.

At the same time, the fantastical fear of harm on the part of the leftists justifies using violence against anyone they deem hateful oppressors. In the wake of the February anti-Milo riot in Berkeley, the student newspaper published several columns defending the violence as righteous actions against bigots.

It’s maybe not surprising when 40 percent of millennials supporting laws restricting speech that is found offensive by minorities. This is the natural result of victimhood culture taking control of millions of young minds.

Coulter’s cancellation was a victory for the black-masked antifa, who got their way with threats and intimidation. Fortunately, many right-wingers are still planning to hold a rally in Berkeley on Thursday anyway in defiance of the violent leftists, sending a message that the anti-Coulter opposition can’t shut down all thoughts they hate.

The rally, unsanctioned by the university or city of Berkeley, may be more important for the cause of free speech than Coulter giving an unopposed talk in a campus auditorium. Those willing to use violence to silence their opponents need to know that that doesn’t work and that hundreds of people are willing to stand up against their intimidation.

If they are not opposed, then they easily achieve their dream of suppressing “hate speech” with a little bit of pressure exerted against cowardly administrators — no new law required….

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AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Antifas should be designated as a terrorist organization, for starters.

JacksonPearson
JacksonPearson
6 years ago

This will all stop once George Soros, his son, and Barack Obama and his “Organize for Action,” and the leadership of moveon.org are indicted, tried and convicted for attempting to overthrow our government. It’s called sedition folks. These criminals are just to name a few, because there’s more.

Karen Wooley Holsopple
Karen Wooley Holsopple
6 years ago
Reply to  JacksonPearson

Let’s HOPE that happens!

Thetruth
Thetruth
6 years ago
Reply to  JacksonPearson

Sooner the better

Ed Heavner
Ed Heavner
6 years ago

…in essence it is all right for Howard Dean and Ulrich Baer to support hate speech from the Liberal left and decry what they presume to be hate speech from the Conservative Right.

unboundried
unboundried
6 years ago

Berkeley has a right to schedule campus events. Coulter could have delivered her speech had she worked with the Berkeley administration. There would have been protesters, but protesting is also free speech. Quit whining.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  unboundried

Leftzo protesters are going to find that free speech is for everyone, now that they have resorted to violence as a medium of protest, they can fully expect to be victims of violence themselves.

unboundried
unboundried
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Ann Coulter was offered her opportunity to speak. She turned it down.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  unboundried

Do you think she is stupid? Why would she address a bunch of subhuman socialists that are not even toilet trained, without some form of mob control?

unboundried
unboundried
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Send me an address and I’ll mail you a box of tissues.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  unboundried

Keep them for your use when wanking off as that is about all you can do.

John Jakob
John Jakob
6 years ago
Reply to  unboundried

your ignorance knows no bounds .

Thetruth
Thetruth
6 years ago
Reply to  unboundried

Yea WHEN NO STUDENTS WERE AROUND, NEXT WEEK WITH NO CLASSES

Thetruth
Thetruth
6 years ago
Reply to  unboundried

Have you just come out of moms basement???????
She did work with them

Dave Mc
Dave Mc
6 years ago

Watching the crowd gather for the 2pm rally. Lots of middle-aged and older people there, wearing coats with lumps that may or may not be covering really huge cell phones. Antifa likes to hurt people with knives and sticks. Any attacks they conduct on the innocent may not go as they might prefer that they go.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

As soon as the left have got more control, they will start to fight for dominance and turf as the gangs look into more control and the money they can extort from it.

762x51FMJ
762x51FMJ
6 years ago

It should be illegal for any public protest group to conceal themselves with masks.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
6 years ago

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Alleged Comment
Alleged Comment
6 years ago

This is what happens when you have children raised by their mothers. You get the fatherless. Now they are mad and testing your patience.

I still say the belt will do the trick.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Agreed. It is obvious those kids didn’t get their asses whipped enough times growing up. I dealt with them in the public schools and the person who they were using as a mom was always quick to defend their misconduct against the school. As the twig is bent . . .

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

It is almost comical to note, except for the sacrifice of the First Amendment, that the media romantically carries on about “Berserkeley” being the “birthplace of the Free Speech movement”. They never mention the history of it and how its critics called it the “Filthy Speech movement” at its inception because the student radicals who dreamed it up were merely seeking social acceptance of their being able to drop the “F-bomb” in public speaking with no penalty. The Vietnam War was on at that time and the calls for “f*ck the war” and “f*ck the draft” were frequent.

It is also worth mentioning that one student named Mario Silvio is credited as being the driving force behind it. Mention of the fact that he was only enrolled for one semester and never graduated is overlooked as well.

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
6 years ago

The First Amendment was designed to protect unpopular speech, AKA “hate speech.” Speech that offends no one needs no protection.

Karen Wooley Holsopple
Karen Wooley Holsopple
6 years ago

WHY do these PUSSIES always have to cover their faces?!?!?!?!?!?

MerchantseamenD
Merchantseamen
6 years ago

Cowards. They might get chastised if mommy sees them on T. V.

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