Posted on 09/04/2017 10:54:47 AM PDT by SteveH
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Conservative author Ann Coulter will join Milo Yiannopoulos during his “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley next month.
Yiannopoulos, a controversial right-wing speaker, was invited back to campus by a campus conservative newspaper, the Berkeley Patriot. This comes after his previous event, hosted by Berkeley College Republicans, was canceled Feb. 1 because of the violent protest that erupted on Sproul Plaza. Coulter, who was also invited to speak on campus by BCR in April, will be visiting campus as well after her event was postponed and eventually canceled because of security disagreements between BCR and the campus administration.
Although The Chronicle of Higher Education first reported that Yiannopoulos, Coulter and Steve Bannon were all invited to speak in September, campus spokesperson Dan Mogulof said the campus was only aware that Yiannopoulos and Coulter have been confirmed. Beyond that, the campus was unaware of other speakers being confirmed.
“The campus’s understanding is that invitations have gone out to Yiannopoulos and Coulter and they have been confirmed,” Mogulof said. “We did not invite these people, so any information we have is secondhand.”
Pranav Jandhyala, the news editor for the Berkeley Patriot, said he could not confirm that speakers aside from Yiannopoulos would be attending Free Speech Week in September.
“We have no comment on that at this time,” Jandhyala said of Bannon and Coulter being invited to campus.
Chancellor Carol Christ sent an email Wednesday morning in which she confirmed that Yiannopoulos has been invited back to campus. She emphasized in her email the importance of freedom of expression and advised that if people feel the need to protest upcoming events, they should do so peacefully.
Free Speech Week is scheduled to take place from Sept. 24-27.
Chantelle Lee is the city news editor. Contact her at chantellelee@dailycal.org and follow her on Twitter at @ChantelleHLee.
I’ll be interested in seeing how many rat cheerleaders come out in support of the antifa brown shirts who will be there.
Dumb idea. Coulter is baiting violence since Berzerkely is a mine field for conservatives. If she wants to show up in a HunVee with a mini gun, surrounded by a few dozen Special Forces teams, then I’d endorse the idea.
Wink, wink. I doubt this event will actually come about. Or if it does it will devolve into a cluster like the Charlottesville rally due to official negligence and malfeasance.
> Conservative author Ann Coulter will join Milo Yiannopoulos during his “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley next month. <
What’s the over-under for how many days before this thing gets cancelled? Because no way will the antifa goons allow this version of free speech to occur. And no way will the city or university step up and provide meaningful security.
> Coulter is baiting violence since Berzerkely is a mine field for conservatives. <
That’s exactly where she should be going! If you’re going to stand up for free speech, you gotta go where that free speech is most threatened. Will there be violence? Probably. That’s not on Coulter. That’s on who throws the first rock.
But as I noted in my post #6, I think the whole thing will be cancelled anyway.
Not sure but cancelled it will be, probably two days before so they don't blow money on travel. It's getting tiresome.
Popcorn at the ready.
Correct. As we have seen written here on FR many times over the years, if you're not getting flak, you're not over the target.
So Berkeley is the first no free speech zone in America? Why are conservatives so ready to give up ground and concede so quickly and easily?
In other words.
“Self Esteem”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abrn8aVQ76Q
“The more you suffer,,,,,,
... The more it shows you really Care.”
They need to sue and sue and sue at the federal level over the effective denial of free speech. As events get scheduled and cancelled perhaps they are building up their case
> if you’re not getting flak, you’re not over the target. <
That’s a new one for me. And I like it. I think I might wait a respectable amount of time, then steal it for my tagline.
That Wagner Soto really knows how to drive home a point - well said!
“Dumb idea. Coulter is baiting violence since Berzerkely is a mine field for conservatives.”
I don’t know...some may think that she has as much right to any public space as, say, a Democrat.
“They need to sue and sue and sue at the federal level over the effective denial of free speech.”
I’ve thought along those lines too. If they can simply get one Congressman to show up there, then they federalize the event, along with the security. The Alt-Left may not like what happens to them if that takes place.
> If they can simply get one Congressman to show up there, then they federalize the event, along with the security. <
Excellent idea!
Jeez, how defeat-ish we've become in such a short time...
Without going into detail, look at it as a glass being half full rather than half-empty:
Image the possibilites.
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