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'Get out now': Violence erupts at the University of Pittsburgh over Michael Knowles event
Campus Reform ^ | 20 Apr 2023 | Gabrielle M Etzel

Posted on 04/20/2023 7:17:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Demonstrators threw flares at attendees trying to enter the building and lit an incendiary device outside of the venue.

Violent protest against Michael Knowles and Brad Polumbo shuts down streets in Pittsburgh.

Violent protests erupted in the heart of Western Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening as student activists attempted to shut down a debate at the University of Pittsburgh between political commentators Michael Knowles and Brad Polumbo concerning transgender rights.

The event was hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Pitt College Republicans.

Campus Reform has covered the turmoil connected to other conservative speakers at the university, including Cabot Phillips and Riley Gaines, but the Executive Director of Media Relations Chuck Finder told Campus Reform that Tuesday’s outraged crowd was not only larger and more aggressive than those at the Phillips and Gaines events, but was also more extreme than anticipated.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: antifa; briandipippa; education; freedomofspeech; freespeech; krystaldipippa; leftwingnuts; michaelknowles; pittsburgh; terrorism; terrorists; trans; transviolence; trantifa; uofpittsburgh
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This sh*t has got to stop.
1 posted on 04/20/2023 7:17:47 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

“YOU MUST THINK LIKE WE THINK! OR ELSE!!”


2 posted on 04/20/2023 7:18:50 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Rummyfan

How long will children rule?


3 posted on 04/20/2023 7:20:05 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Mr. K

0bama’s Army.

So tolerant...NOT!

Militant, though.


4 posted on 04/20/2023 7:20:29 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Mr. K

“If you don’t indulge us in our madness, we’ll kill ourselves. Or maybe we’ll just kill you.”


5 posted on 04/20/2023 7:20:56 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s hard to imagine having this much time and energy in college for crap like this.


6 posted on 04/20/2023 7:21:57 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Rummyfan

That these domestic terrorists are not arrested and charged with serious felonies is a crime in itself.


7 posted on 04/20/2023 7:23:08 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: Rummyfan

And the Proud Boys were the problem.


8 posted on 04/20/2023 7:23:18 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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It’s hard to imagine having this much time and energy in college for crap like this.

They're likely not evem college students. The leftist hive brain center deploys these "soldiers" wherever they're ordered, from across the country if required.

9 posted on 04/20/2023 7:24:40 AM PDT by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: Rummyfan

These Leftists (or Democrat/Communists, as you prefer) know full well that their tyrannical, Liberty-destroying theology cannot prevail unless and until the opposition is crushed. And that begins by not allowing those opposed to their tyranny to speak ... then the crushing of their opponents increases logarithmically from that point ... as we are watching and experiencing it unfold today.


10 posted on 04/20/2023 7:26:35 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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Yeah-—I’m beyond fed up with the “sit down and shut up” BS.
They have no consequences for their actions...SHTF very soon....They’re pushing it way too far and hard.


11 posted on 04/20/2023 7:43:07 AM PDT by mikelets456
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This is FETTERMAN country, conservatives!


12 posted on 04/20/2023 7:44:50 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: blueunicorn6

Isaiah 3:12.


13 posted on 04/20/2023 7:45:26 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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Demonstrators threw flares at attendees trying to enter the building and lit an incendiary device outside of the venue.

'S'okay. But just don't pray for someone and their baby while they're entering an abortion abattoir, because that's terrorism!!!

14 posted on 04/20/2023 7:49:33 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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“Demonstrators”


15 posted on 04/20/2023 7:52:53 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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Demonstrators want to only allow Newspeak logic and freedom not permitted.


16 posted on 04/20/2023 8:23:05 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Rummyfan

Nazi Brown Shirts.


17 posted on 04/20/2023 8:23:22 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: fwdude

At minimum they should be ejected from the university with all Fs on their transcripts for this term.


18 posted on 04/20/2023 8:25:55 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Rummyfan

Divide and conquer. The radical left, including the Democrat Party are pushing for this. They are the enemy within.


19 posted on 04/20/2023 8:29:33 AM PDT by windsorknot
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“ At minimum they should be ejected from the university with all Fs on their transcripts for this term.”

They are serving the interests of the university administration, which in turn is serving the interests of the fascist government. The university will simply not allow any other speakers or events except those sanctioned by the fascists. That will be their response.

History has seen this play before. It ends with a horridly violent and destructive tyrannical society and murder on a genocidal scale. And the one that takes hold here in America will be the worst ever seen before in the history of mankind.


20 posted on 04/20/2023 8:35:13 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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