Posted on 06/22/2017 7:15:18 AM PDT by deplorableindc
Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein defended the University of California, Berkeley at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, and suggested colleges shouldn’t have to accommodate controversial speakers.
The hearing was sparked by countless free speech violations on college campuses across the country, where conservative speakers are often shouted down by leftist protesters, physically assaulted or in some instances prevented from speaking at all.
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In a heated back-and-forth with one of the panelists at the hearing, UCLA law professor and First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, Feinstein declared, “One of the problems that I have is that there is an expectation that the university handles it,” referring to universities accommodating contentious speakers.
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The California university system, a marketplace of ideas:
like the Ford Model T—any color you want, as long as it’s black.
Perhaps the biggest irony is that the birthplace of student free speech, Berkeley, has become the Orwellian nest of violent fascists we now know as `Berzerkeley’.
You would think this de jure, unabashed censorship would embarrass the “liberals” but they have shown themselves impervious to irony or shame.
Or humor: “Never interfere with your enemy when she is making zee mistake, especially when she tosses zee hand grenade into zee kitchen.” Linoleum Blownapart
Make California America Again!
Deport them all. ~Si se puede~
OK. It’s back to carpentry and painting for this guero.
Goebbels would have loved her.
Its a shame they all couldn’t have drunk Jones’ koolaid.
Volokh hit back, “I would think that Berkeley police department would also be able and should be willing to lend police officers to help out.”
“If we are in a position where our police departments are unable to protect free speech, whether it’s universities or otherwise, then yes, indeed, we are in a very bad position,” he added.
Among the witnesses were two legal scholars, two students, a campus administrator, a former college president, and Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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