NYT's Fuller's Bizarre Take on First Amendment at Berkeley: 'Can Cause Physical Pain'

Newsbusters ^ | September 23, 2017 | Clay Waters

[kevcol]

At Berkeley, there are both unequivocal voices championing the importance of free speech, no matter how inflammatory, and professors who say lines need to be drawn on campuses. These professors argue that the First Amendment needs to be reassessed for reasons that include the rise of internet trolling and cyberbullying and that some scientific research now shows that hateful speech can cause physical pain.

[kevcol]

Flashback:

[Cicero]

Hey, Fuller. You’re causing me physical pain!

[ClearCase_guy]

Physical pain is coming. I’m pretty sure of it.

[Hugin]

It’s true. Every time I hear some leftist professor on TV I get a headache.

[onedoug]

Can cause physical pain for those with no faith in God.

[Pollster1]

Pathetic. Anyone who experiences physical pain from political or philosophical discourse needs to grow a pair . . . or be institutionalized. And UC Berkeley is the wrong kind of institution for someone so delicate.

[chris37]

Sounds like someone may need a demonstration of exactly what physical pain is.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It should be proposed to these “professors” that persons unable to hear other people’s opinions, lest it cause them physical pain, should get the well known technology of brain electrodes, so that when they hear such “badthoughts”, they will get electronic shocks to neutralize any pain they may experience.

Such devices might be enhanced by having external transmitters that could activate them at a distance, with the push of a button, by someone acting to protect them.

So their students can peacefully listen to speeches by people like Ann Coulter or Milo, or even Sarah Palin or President Trump himself, while being calm and rational, not experiencing pain, or shrieking, crying, whining, throwing things or otherwise disrupting said speeches.

They can calmly signal their opposition by just sitting there and not applauding.

It’s a win-win situation.

[Grampa Dave]

University Fascist Snowflakes.

They can dish it out and will not tolerate a different opinion.

[joshua c]

Question for Fuller:

It’s a free country, ain’t it?

That used to be a rhetorical question.

But with Fuller and his fellow travelers, not so much.

[rigelkentaurus]

Berkley has never been, is not now and never will be a place of free speech, as they don’t even understand what the words mean.

[Steely Tom]

Karma train's comin'
She's rollin' down the track...

[super7man]

scientific research now shows that hateful speech can cause physical pain.

Sticks and stone can break my bones.....

[facedown]

Berkley has never been, is not now and never will be a place of free speech, as they don’t even understand what the words mean.

Actually, they do. That's what they're afraid of. Can't tolerate dissent in an indoctrination center.

[Leep]

Universities are isolated and insulated from the outside world.

[jeffc]

...cyberbullying and that some scientific research now shows that hateful speech can cause physical pain.

Should those susceptible to this "pain" really be in an institute of higher learning rather than just an... institute?

[sparklite2]

Mother: What you looking at, boy?
Son: I'm watching out for the Karma train, Ma.
Mother: Well, I swan.
Father: There ain't no Karma train, boy.
Son: How else am I gettin' to California, Pa?
Father: You ain't.
Son: But I want to go surfin', and lookin' at
        girls in hot pants and high heels!
Father: All them girls say the same thing, boy.
Son: What do they say?
Father: They say, "Yes I do. But not with you."
Son:  Dang.
Mother: Well, I swan.

[Chode]

[Dapper 26]

Let’s stop calling BERZERKLY a university. Let’s call it a socialist cesspool.

[GOPJ]

The same liberal thugs behind CAMPUS violence are now saying the American People must give up their freedom of speech BECAUSE OF THE VIOLENCE THEY'RE CAUSING?

“War Is Peace”

“Freedom Is Slavery”

“Ignorance Is Strength”

These people are nuts.