Posted on 08/25/2017 5:08:51 PM PDT by BogusTimes
In a move that baby boomers and Gen Xers across the nation applaud, UC Berkeley is returning to its free speech roots of the 1960s and allowing conservative speakers back on campus.
chancellor.PNGCarol Christ Carol Christ, UC Berkeley’s newly-appointed chancellor, defended her controversial shift to allow what some may perceive as provocative speakers to speak on campus, stating in a message to faculty and students, “The law is very clear: Public institutions like UC Berkeley must permit speakers invited in accordance with campus policies to speak, without discrimination in regard to point of view.”
She then announced both Ben Shapiro and Milo Yiannopoulos were invited by student groups to speak on campus this fall. According to Chronicle.com, Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter were invited to speak at the university’s “free speech week” September 24-27. ...“As faculty I’m outraged,” the assistant professor of American and African studies tweeted. “Our campus has responded to the rise of NeoNazis by welcoming them to terrorize, harass and threaten our students. All so our naïve and useless administration can double down on the baby boomer free speech branding bullshit. @UCBerkeley should be ashamed.”
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Organizers cancel right-wing rallies in San Francisco and Berkeley this weekend
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What parent would put up with this belligerent behavior?
My kid would be pulled out and get his ass kicked when he gets home.
When you think about it, what reason do they need to have a protest in bezerkley? Don’t they just do that as part of their culture and heritage?
Don’ get sucked into a false sense of security in Beserkly. They are known to be totally crazy.
Box and carpet expert..?
Perhaps some of the more honest people at Berkeley finally woke up and realized what the end result of all this denial of conservative speakers free speech rights would be. The death of one person’s free speech may well presage the loss of your own freedom of speech.
A great while ago, when the world was full of wonders...
Woke?
Or
Awake?
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day’s divinity
First thing you see.
A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it’s quiet side
And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
The music and voices are all around us.
Choose they croon the Ancient Ones
The time has come again
Choose now, they croon
Beneath the moon
Beside an ancient lake
Enter again the sweet forest
Enter the hot dream
Come with us
Everything is broken up and dances
They remembered what Martin Niemöller said:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Wow. Leftists are completely losing it!
Lol...with jaw muscles so strong her bite force rivals a crocodile.
And then they came for me, but unfortunately for them I was armed.
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