Posted on 04/27/2017 4:30:03 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Without uttering a word to students at the University of California, Berkeley, Ann Coulter on Wednesday made herself the latest cause célèbre in the rapidly escalating effort by conservatives to fight liberals on what was once the left’s moral high ground over free speech on campus.
Ms. Coulter, the acid-penned conservative writer, canceled a planned appearance on Thursday after the political organizations that invited her rescinded their support over fears of violence. “It’s a sad day for free speech,” she said.
But across the country, conservatives like her are eagerly throwing themselves into volatile situations like the one in Berkeley, emboldened by a backlash over what many Americans see as excessive political correctness, a president who has gleefully taken up their fight, and liberals they accuse of trying to censor any idea they disagree with.
The situation adds up to a striking reversal in the culture wars, with the left now often demanding that offensive content be excised from public discourse and those who promote it boycotted and shunned.
Berkeley has again become a symbolic flash point. The university was not just the cradle of the Free Speech Movement but also the site of a violent 1969 crackdown that delighted many protest-weary Americans when Ronald Reagan, then California’s governor, ordered the National Guard to move in on student demonstrators.
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Actually, I would say they more lie about the point than miss it.
I do not recall a time during my 50 years where the left had the moral high ground over free speech on campus. They have always been about controlling and denying conservative speech.
>> what was once the left’s moral high ground over free speech on campus.
The divisive, repressive Left never held the moral high ground on speech. It is the enemy of liberty.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
Pretty much all anyone needs to know right there. No point in reading past that. Well... it is the slimes after all. One can't expect any real journalism or thought-provoking opinions to flow from that fish wrap and bird cage liner.
The NY Times intentionally misses the point. They pretend not to see a difference between censoring Ann Coulter’s speech and preventing “protests” that block roads or pipeline construction. They pretend it’s okay to censor some of what they call far-right views, just not quite as broad a spectrum of views as the terrorists of Antifa want to block. They pretend they are real news, when they are the role model for America’s #FakeNews industry.
Today’s journalists disgust me.
snowflakes - our future leaders . . . when will they realize they are destroying liberty.
So unlike Ms. Coulter Dowd, the acid-penned conservative liberal writer
In this era of FAKE NEWS, I can’t figure out whether
Ann Coulter is speaking or not. There are posts showing it both ways here on FR this morning.
That’s true even if they just love puppies.
I swear I heard Ann Coulter described as being a security threat to UC Berkeley’s student body. Last time I saw anything happenning there, it was the students themselves who did all the threatening.
Liberty is not their goal, or desire.
That is the difference.
No wonder they have a crappy football team.
Are ya listening Pres Trump?
I thought it was a continuation of the Lefty’s war on woman.
Trump should withhold all funding to Berkeley until the school can insure that free speech is protected. How can the government be confident that the research it funds is not tainted by political correctness?
I’m sorry, but how does losing, capitulating, and not speaking “embolden” us?,
Correct. I wrote Ron Robinson, head of YAF and told him he lost on this. He blamed Coulter.
If we were emboldened she would make the speech.
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