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Watch The Intellectuals
The American Conservative ^ | 21 Nov 2019 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 11/23/2019 3:39:11 PM PST by Rummyfan

Hundreds of “anti-hate” protesters took to the UC Berkeley campus tonight to protest Ann Coulter’s speech, and to try to prevent people from going in to hear her. Look at this....

Yes, it’s Berkeley, but you know as well as I do that if right-wingers were forming a human wall preventing people from going to hear a prominent left-wing speaker, it would be on all the national news outlets, and we would be talking about the Coming Crisis Of Fascism. But as it is, this is just another day in progressive America.

Seriously, what if a mob of white people at a major American university banded together to prevent people of color and their allies from going into a hall to hear Ta-Nehisi Coates speak? How do you think our media would frame it? They would report the hell out of it, and they should report the hell out of it, because a mob preventing anybody from going to hear someone speak is un-American, and a serious violation of our traditions. This should not happen in America, and especially not at a university.

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I’m not interested in hearing Ann Coulter speak, but I am very, very much interested in fighting the mob culture that seeks to shut down speakers like Ann Coulter, in part by howling curses at, and attempting to humiliate, Americans who are interested in what she has to say.

If you think this is going to stay in Berkeley, you’re mistaken. This mob action might not spread to places outside of the coasts, but here’s what’s going to happen: those young people who join the mobs, they are going to graduate and move into the institutions of American life. They are going to carry their militant illiberalism, including their contempt for free speech and open discourse, into those institutions, and are going to do their damnedest to institutionalize them. One thing I have learned from the past few months spent studying Soviet-bloc communism: watch the intellectual class. It is a very big mistake to think that what they say and do only matters in the shadow of the ivory tower.

1 posted on 11/23/2019 3:39:11 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

we would be talking about the Coming Crisis Of Fascism.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We have been talking about it. Its just that people would rather not think for themselves........yet.

But the time will come.Maybe in November 2020.

See this from 2008, its dead accurate in its summary and warning, as we now see how Adam Schiff is conducting hisbogus Congressional Hearings, without due process:

“Barrack Obama: The Quintessential Liberal Fascist”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html


2 posted on 11/23/2019 3:44:42 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

I know this doesn’t sound like it has anything to do with people who seem to be in a walking coma right now, but here’s a small sample. Today I’m driving down the road and the traffic is CRAWLING. Come to find out, the school zone lights are blinking. Just like they did last weekend. People were going 25 mph. No cars I the parking lot, no bosses, no children. Just blinking lights. It’s frickin’ SATURDAY fools... I’m sure they will be doing the same thing tomorrow if the lights are still blinking. WTH is WRONG with people??!! Absolutely NO common sense. And THESE are the successful educated people.


3 posted on 11/23/2019 4:02:44 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: smvoice

Thats right, just get inline and follow the yellow brick road! LOL.

Wait until ANTIFA starts hauling the out of their cars and beating on them. It takes a little real in the face to see ordinary folk fight back on these liberal fascists.

Like this good ole boy dude. He woke up when an ANTIFA idjit punched his SUV :

“Brave Antifa Blocks Car Angry Man Knocks Him Out”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3795819/posts

Video direct link:

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=u0Hrf_1574391726

The dude WOKE UP! And soon everybody will.


4 posted on 11/23/2019 4:14:58 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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