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Tufts students say Ben Shapiro's views put them in 'danger'
Campus Reform ^ | November 13, 2017 | Adam Sabes

Posted on 11/14/2017 6:34:57 AM PST by C19fan

Liberal students at Tufts University are pressuring the student government to deny funding for the College Republicans to host an event featuring Ben Shapiro.

The funding request was scheduled for discussion by the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on October 29, but was tabled at the request of the Tufts College Republicans President George Behrakis, who told The Tufts Daily that the club need time to prepare a response following “a swift mobilization against us by leftist student groups.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
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My alma mater. My first year there the school brought in Angela Davis. Nobody thought a woman who espouses a murderous ideology was verboten.
1 posted on 11/14/2017 6:34:57 AM PST by C19fan
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So what. He’s a rotten Never Trumper. They don’t support us, we don’t need to support them.


2 posted on 11/14/2017 6:35:56 AM PST by lodi90
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To: C19fan

To the forces of evil, “Free Speech” has always meant shouting down opposing viewpoints.


3 posted on 11/14/2017 6:38:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: C19fan

Blow away snowflakes blow away...


4 posted on 11/14/2017 6:38:36 AM PST by GOPJ (https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/)
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To: C19fan

Minority Fragility on display.


5 posted on 11/14/2017 6:41:26 AM PST by cdcdawg
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Dear Tufts “students.”

Define exactly in what sort of danger his speech places you. Qualify and quantify that danger.

Use real words. And feelings don’t count.

Mark


6 posted on 11/14/2017 6:42:18 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: C19fan

Tufts will fold like a cheap suit.


7 posted on 11/14/2017 6:47:55 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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A bit of irony here, considering that Tufts’ mascot is Jumbo the Elephant!


8 posted on 11/14/2017 6:50:56 AM PST by ssaftler (NFL? We don't need no stinking NFL!)
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This is almost as good as the terrifying "Chalkening" at Emory U in Atlanta.

The Emory Administration actually started an investigation. Turned out to be a great boon for HR departments across the nation...immediately reject an application from an Emory grad.


9 posted on 11/14/2017 6:52:30 AM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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I have listened to quite a number of Ben Shapiro's talks on campus. Nothing he has ever said could be taken by any reasonable person as threatening, or racist, or sexist, or any other kind of -ist.

What he does do is tell the truth, and that's why liberals want to shut him up.

If he were lying, all they would have to do is refute the lies. Since he isn't lying, their only recourse is to shut him up.

Lies can be refuted, but truth must be silenced.

10 posted on 11/14/2017 6:53:54 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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Ben Shapiro and other non-lefties do put students in danger... the danger of having to think!


11 posted on 11/14/2017 7:06:00 AM PST by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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That was before it was discovered that snowflakes melt from mere proximity to opposing views. Then, where you thought you had intelligent, truth-seeking college students, all you end up with is little puddles on the floor.


12 posted on 11/14/2017 7:13:28 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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“...complained that Shapiro’s presence on campus would psychologically harm...”

Don’t think so; that presumes you have a brain to harm.


13 posted on 11/14/2017 7:22:16 AM PST by budj (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!)
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To: lodi90

I agree and I don’t trust Shapiro.


14 posted on 11/14/2017 7:38:16 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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It is embarrassing to the USA know we have a generation of little faggots going to school learning to be grown up faggots


15 posted on 11/14/2017 7:39:49 AM PST by okie 54
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In danger of hearing thoughts they don’t like?

In danger of maybe learning something?

In danger of possibly thinking for themselves?


16 posted on 11/14/2017 7:47:00 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: C19fan

College students today believe an open mind is dangerous.


17 posted on 11/14/2017 8:00:46 AM PST by Crucial
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They don’t support us, we don’t need to support them.

But their right to speak out their non-support is as important as our right to not support them and speak out about that.

18 posted on 11/14/2017 8:01:34 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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After Trump’s eight years, it will be interesting having to deal with these Leftist Nazis.


19 posted on 11/14/2017 8:02:10 AM PST by Crucial
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No, going to the Powderhouse Pub in Somerville puts Tufts students in danger.


20 posted on 11/14/2017 8:04:25 AM PST by MGG
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