Posted on 09/10/2017 12:32:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Later this month, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro will be landing at Berkeley, an event which is apparently being treated by the locals as some sort of Category Five Speechstorm. We already learned that the school is offering special counseling sessions for traumatized locals, and security concerns “forced them” to initially only sell half the tickets for the auditorium where Ben will be speaking.
But you can’t be too careful in the face of a natural disaster like someone showing to, er… talk. Inside of a venue where only people who are willing to pay for tickets will be able to hear him. With all of those concerns in mind, the LA Times reports that even more security precautions are being put in place. They’re even titling their piece using the phrase, “Berkeley Braces For” Shapiro. And may I just say, thank God for that. For all we know, in addition to saying words, Shapiro may even be planning to use hand gestures or some sort of multi-media presentation. And I’m pretty sure Berkeley is close to a fault line. We can only hope there are a few survivors left to tell the tale.
Girding itself for a visit from another polarizing political figure and the possibility of more violent protests, UC Berkeley is tightening campus security.
In a message sent earlier this week, Provost Paul Alivisatos said the university was taking precautions in advance of the Sept. 14 visit by conservative political commentator and former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro. There will be a “closed perimeter” around the building where Shapiro is scheduled to speak, and an “increased and highly visible police presence.”
A number of university buildings near Zellerbach Hall, the event’s location, will be closed that afternoon. In order to pass through security barriers, people will have to show tickets for the speech.
You’ll note that in the very first paragraph they’re talking about fears of the possibility of “more violent protests.” That’s an exceptionally valid concern since we’re talking about Berkeley but it has nothing to do with conservatives. As far as I know, Ben isn’t planning on beating anyone up and the College Republicans seem to mostly want to just get into the auditorium and hear him.
But you know who they do need to worry about? As John Sexton recently reported, violent Antifa rioters are extremely well organized in that area, handing out schedules, lists of possible targets and attack strategies. Some of them seem to enjoy describing themselves as “Nazi hunters,” which is hilarious considering that Shapiro is Jewish.
I reached out to Ben for comment on this story and he offered the following brief observation.
I am quite physically intimidating, but I’m pretty sure the issue is intolerant Leftists attempting to shut down dissenters with force. It’s always very provocative to give speeches about why violence in politics isn’t permitted, and why Antifa and the alt-right suck.
I realize I’ve employed more than my daily quota of snark in this single article, but any humor involved is of a decidedly dark nature. Stop and think about this for a moment. There are bands of masked, black-clad people threatening to show up and attack anyone with the wrong sorts of ideas. The police are on high alert. The school is clearly within hours of announcing that they’ll be setting up literal fainting couches.
And for what? Because one 33 year old author is showing up at a college campus to give a speech. Traditionally, the idea of a guest speaker delivering comments to college students was about as shocking as the sun rising in the east. But now it’s verging on an unnatural disaster. Just how badly have the wheels come off in our society, particularly on the nation’s college campuses? This is no longer a subject for amusement. It’s a tragedy.
Shapiro is a never - Trumper Berkeley rioters won’t do very much at all.
Cities on the Gulf of Mexico brace for hurricanes, cities on the gulf of snowflake sensitivity brace for speakers who might say a single thing that challenges their beliefs. Berkeley was once the home of the Free Speech movement - what a disgrace.
The lefties have no clue that their behavior increases the power of the person they hate. They are saying that some conservative speaker is powerful enough to destroy their entire lives. They show how fearful they are.
Ben Shapiro has just been upgraded to a CAT-4.
Fascists to be on the streets, masked in black?
if they had thrown the antifa Fascist in jail the last several times for their assaults and battery against Conservatives they wouldn’t have this problem with theses criminals.
But leftist seem to prefer their violent criminals on the street and their non-violent political opposition in jail instead.
Thus their streets are increasingly like run by criminals.
“Shapiro is a never - Trumper Berkeley rioters won’t do very much at all.”
Maybe - because the police are paying more attention now to the usual suspects, but I wouldn’t want to bet on that.
LMAO
Shapiro has been holding these college talks for years. When Milo started and was winning the culture war on campuses, the commie left has to up the ante.
The violence began because Milo was so effective among college youth & others.
There is a history book that really needs to be written. It involves the pro-West vs. pro-Marxist battles between the professores found at Berkeley in the years 1948-1960. The battles fought in the Political Science, History and Pre-Law faculties were monumental.
Tangentially, there was the “Loyalty Oath” business and the McCarthy Era to add spice. The pro-West faction, including many European anti-Communists who had sought exile in the USA, were victorious for a time. Their efforts to ensure the survival of a great academic institution was undermined in the nineteen sixties by the cowardly chancellor Clark Kerr. It has been all downhill since. 0/
In other news, UC Berkeley is bracing for the arrival of several puppies, and perhaps a couple of kittens
We are dangerously close to a situation in which bringing in a conservative speaker - no matter how mild-mannered - will be seen as a “provocation” requiring special permissions and elaborate security. This is NOT the America I grew up in.
>>There is a history book that really needs to be written. It involves the pro-West vs. pro-Marxist battles between the professores found at Berkeley in the years 1948-1960.
[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]
>>The pro-West faction, including many European anti-Communists who had sought exile in the USA, were victorious for a time.
Who were they?
sorry to nitpick, but in your tagline, ‘non acquiescit’is third person singular, not first; you want ‘non aquiesco’...
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