Posted on 04/23/2017 11:13:21 AM PDT by John Semmens
This week, former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Governor Howard Dean expressed his alarm that author Ann Coulter has not been effectively silenced by the University of California at Berkeley. Initially, the University forbade Coulter from speaking on campus citing the event as “dangerous.” After Coulter took steps to go ahead without the University’s official approval Dean became irate.
“Coulter is notorious for rejecting the mainstream consensus on immigration, Muslims, taxes, welfare, you name it,” Dean maintained. “Her jibes are so venomous as to generate ridicule for those who hold opposing views. Clearly, she hates liberals and the victims we champion. The university was well within its rights to defend its public space from being exploited by this awful woman.”
Dean assailed “the notion that hateful words and ideas can infiltrate our communities and airwaves under the guise of freedom of speech is a threat that must be stopped by any means necessary. The violent protests lodged by the Antifa movement are an encouraging sign that the young people of our universities understand what’s at stake. In many instances they have been successful in deterring the airing of inappropriate ideas. But we can’t let young people bear the entire burden of silencing evil thoughts. Those right-thinking individuals among us who hold the reins of power at the state level or in the courts need to put forth a commensurate effort to end the noise pollution emitted by the likes of Coulter and her ilk.”
In related news, the masked AntiFa demonstrator who bashed a Trump supporter in the head with a bicycle lock turned out to be Professor Eric Clanton of Diablo Valley College in California. “If those in authority had done a better job of protecting college students from hate speech professors wouldn’t have to take it on themselves to do what should’ve been done,” Dean said. “It’s disheartening that the best and brightest feel compelled to wear masks while they are defending the progressive agenda.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://azconservative.org/2017/04/22/murderer-demands-release-as-reparation-for-slavery/
Actual hate speech is ‘convert or die’ ‘i want to kill all white people’ ‘all men should be killed’
The left just wants to label any opposition to their beliefs as hate speech. They wont debate be ause they cannot defend their views with facts and compelling arguments, so they resort to shutting down the other side. Tossing out the race card, the gender card, too many people don’t accept those cards anymore. So now its not to even allow the other side to speak.
Such good little socialists. Lenin would be proud.
I’m reading columns in student newspapers talking openly about violence against me.
I’m reading columns that openly say I should be silenced simply because they don’t like what I say.
I’ve seen Palestinians talk openly about killing Jews.
I’ve seen Muslims talk openly about tearing down the US government and killing our people.
I’ve seen anarchists talk about destroying our government and kill our politicians - people like you Mr Dean.
But none of that bothered you.
What you find out of bounds are people who talk openly about following our laws and loving our culture.
Think about that a minute.
Excellent. Needs to go viral.
One person’s hate speech is another’s political freedom. Who the hell does think he is to presume to deem certain ideas as outside the protection of the Constitution? Ann Coulter’s position on most of the topics he lists are indistinguishable from those adopted by candidate Obama in 2008.
Ms. Coulter merely advocates for enforcement of laws on the books and scoffs at the inanities of the politically correct. Suck it up buttercup.
I call for the outlawing of Howard Dean’s primal scream!
Dean: Looney has-been. Totally irrelevant.
And over here in this jar is the brain of Howard Dean. You are not to touch it and by no means are any of you to try to unscrew the lid.
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