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The Death of Facts
Gatestone Institute ^ | May 3, 2017 | Douglas Murray

Posted on 05/04/2017 6:50:58 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Every week in America brings another spate of defeats for freedom of speech. This past week it was Ann Coulter's turn (yet again) to be banned from speaking at Berkeley for what the university authorities purport to be "health and safety" reasons -- meaning the health and safety of the speaker.

Each time this happens, there are similar responses. Those who broadly agree with the views of the speaker complain about the loss of one of the fundamental rights which the Founding Fathers bestowed on the American people. Those who may be on the same political side but find the speaker somewhat distasteful find a way to be slightly muted or silent. Those who disagree with the speaker's views applaud the banning as an appropriate response to apparently imminent incitement.

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Heather MacDonald is a conservative author, journalist and fellow of the Manhattan Institute in New York. Her work has appeared in some of the world's most prestigious journals. Of course, none of that was enough to deter students at Claremont from libelling her as much as possible in advance of her speech and then preventing her speech from taking place. At Claremont McKenna College, where Mac Donald was due to speak about her recent book, The War on Cops, angry students surrounded the building, screamed obscene words and banged on the windows. MacDonald ended up giving the speech to a mainly empty room via live video-streaming and then fleeing the university under the protection of campus security. As recent events, such as the hospitalisation of a professor at Charles Murray's recent speech at Middlebury College have shown, intimidation and violence are clearly regarded by today's North American students as legitimate means to stop people from speaking...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fact; liberals; logic; truth
"Objectivity silences oppressed peoples!"

Facts/Laws do not care about your feelings!

"'Truth'--is a Euro-West construction and is a myth"

Facts/Laws helped pull the western world out tribalism, superstition, and ignorance, which is why we are not like Africa!

"The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, endangers our abilities to exist in open spaces, [and] is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples."

You shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free!

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