Posted on 12/09/2005 8:01:57 AM PST by Lloyd227
I am going to say something I never thought I would say as a UConn student. I commend the College Republicans. Not for their viewpoints, not for their choice of a speaker, but for how they behaved on Monday night during Cindy Sheehan's talk compared to the shameful display Ann Coulter received at the hands of dissenters on Wednesday night.
This is, of course, not to say that I am impressed with Coulter at all. I find her comments, especially those spoken "in jest" about homosexuals and Muslims to be appalling and downright deplorable. But her viewpoints and statements do not grant others the permission to demean someone like Coulter through taunts, songs and name-calling. Given that the vocal group of dissenters who attended Coulter's talk promote tolerance and fight against hate speech, I am saddened that they themselves committed the same acts they so avidly fight against.
The College Republicans handled themselves much more civilly at the Cindy Sheehan speech on Monday night. Granted, some of their protest methods were underhanded and inflammatory, such as when they slandered Sheehan's character by passing out a letter critical of her actions supposedly written by her family and holding up signs stating "honk if you love peace" outside the Student Union. Once inside, however, not once did I hear them boo or direct any rude comments towards Sheehan and her speech. As much as they were against her, they knew how to respect her.
By booing and mocking Coulter, people who disagree with her only provoke her more and give her more ammunition for her next book or speech. I believe that speakers such as Coulter or Sheehan should no longer be invited to UCONN since they merely spout personal opinions and sometimes slur people's religious beliefs, orientations and values. On topics as important as American foreign policy students should have the opportunity to engage in reasoned, thoughtful discussion with experts in the field. Both of these presenters did nothing to advance our understanding of the war in Iraq. If students want to cheer for their team and boo their opponent, I suggest they attend a sports event.
Looks as though the antics of those little liberal monkeys might have translated into an even larger win for Ann Coulter.
College Republicans Behave Better Than Liberals = No Sh*t, Sherlock!
Amazing that such a deluded robot of the left has that much power of discernment left.
??? This is underhanded and inflammatory?
Can anyone post that graphic of 'Captain Obvious'?
ping
I'd like to see them debate each other, actually. The moonbats would be in rare form.
In 1970 I attended a speech by a South Vietnam representative and the anti-war radicals did the same thing.
Liberals fear a differing view, just as communists regarded any dissenter as an enemy of the state.
Sorry to say, but the liberal tradition at Storrs has not changed.
No amount of higher education can cure a congenital bum!
Just look at Bill Clinton, John Kerry....etc.
Bump!
The lefties in the crowd would go straight to riot mode the first time Coulter reduced the nit-witted Sheehan to tears.
But I find her comments right on target and as truthful as sunrise and sunset.
College lefties are pure facists. Is it any wonder they act like brownshirts?
Republicans are much prettier than Democrats.
If the Campus PC police don't husstle this boy back for reprogramming, there is just a chance he may come to realize how totally full of crap the rest of their leftist dogma is.
Coulter debating Sheehan wouldn't even be fun to watch, kind of like the heavyweight champ against a three year old. In a battle of wits, Sheehan is totally unarmed.
Coulter / UConn ping
As the party that feels comfortable rubbing elbows with chaos, hedonism, and unaccountability, is this really any surprise?
College life is on heck of a lesson to more conservative leaning students. They get to see liberal ideas run about unchecked:
"Act the fool, do what ever feels good whenever you want, and when we run out of money, we'll just use the government to take it from the hardworking people and redistribute to the lazy. We're all victims, someone else is to blame for everything wrong in our life, and Life's a bed of roses 'til the money runs out. Oh yeah, PS: be sure to hate the USA, that's euro-trendy"
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