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Missouri Student VP: I'm Tired Of Hearing People Use First Amendment Rights...
Real Clear Politics ^ | 11/10/15

Posted on 11/11/2015 11:34:27 PM PST by Impala64ssa

To Create "Hostile" Atmosphere
Brenda Smith-Lezama, vice president of the Missouri Students Association, appeared on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon to express her disdain at people using their First Amendment rights to create a "hostile" and "unsafe" learning environment. Smith-Lezama advocated for a safe space for "healing" rather than "experiencing a lot of hate."

MSNBC host Thomas Roberts asked Smith-Lezama to respond to a professor who "complained" universities are becoming intolerant of opposing views.

"One professor complained universities are becoming places of prohibition," Roberts said. "What's your feeling? Do you believe that's a place we are heading for American campuses now? "

"I personally am tired of hearing that first amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here," Smith-Lezama said on MSNBC. "I think that it's important for us to create that distinction and create a space where we can all learn from one another and start to create a place of healing rather than a place where we are experiencing a lot of hate like we have in the past."

Smith-Lezama said the treatment of a student journalist who was accosted on Monday should be a "teachable moment" for those who approach the protestors with "hostility."

"I think it's a teachable moment for all of us," she said of the incident. "I also think it's important to remember that as student journalists, you cannot approach these type of situations with hostility and with anger because it only escalates the situation." Posted on November 10, 2015

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; education; freedomofspeech; missou; mizzou
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Video at link. UMMM, Brenda, honey, sweeite, I'm tired of pseudo-intellectuals like you who have some holier-than-thou superiority complex because you hyphenate your name. Now shut up and get me a sammich! Besides, just wait until you graduate and you realize how useless your masters in Ubangi transgendered studies, or lesbian Aztec drum beating or any other irrelevant major your going for, that wouldn't qualify you to be a Starbucks barista. Then you'll really have something to bitch about. Now shut up and get me a sammich!
1 posted on 11/11/2015 11:34:27 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

It’s one thing to protest, another thing to systematically campaign to get people fired and disrupt the stability of the campus. I am so glad I didn’t go to university right away as a naive young adult. No point in racking up a debt the amount of a new house each year, only to be unable to study because of these lunatics disrupting the learning environment.


2 posted on 11/11/2015 11:38:18 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: CorporateStepsister

On the contrary, I am all for firing all of these stupid progressive professors! The idiots that come out of their universities demonstrate the problems - what more do you need to not want them fired? If the teachers unions had any real power, they would rid themselves of these idiots!


3 posted on 11/11/2015 11:43:18 PM PST by Deagle
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To: Impala64ssa

Brenda you ignorant slut.


4 posted on 11/11/2015 11:50:27 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Impala64ssa
In other words, she doesn't want someone to disagree with her, or hurt her feelings.

What a boop.
5 posted on 11/11/2015 11:52:25 PM PST by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Talisker

She can take her teachable moment and shove it up her @ss..maybe that will shut her up since she talks out of it


6 posted on 11/12/2015 12:24:11 AM PST by ground_fog
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To: Talisker

Not only ignorant, but a hypocrite to boot.

“I personally am tired of hearing that first amendment rights protect students...”

...then in almost the same breath...

“I also think it’s important to remember that... ...you cannot approach these type of situations with hostility and with anger...”

Unless you are Brenda the Blessed.


7 posted on 11/12/2015 12:27:27 AM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Impala64ssa

Cage theory. Cage the vocal lefties before they put us on cattle cars.

Credit to Norm Lenhart.


8 posted on 11/12/2015 12:27:53 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Impala64ssa

There’s your future America.

You voted for it for some good feels and MSM puff pieces.

Guess you voted wrong.

Oh well. :)


9 posted on 11/12/2015 12:51:19 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Impala64ssa

In the vernacular of the protesters:

Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Brenda Smith-Lezama, vice president of the Missouri Students Association has got to go!


10 posted on 11/12/2015 12:57:24 AM PST by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out)
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To: Impala64ssa

She’s right. It’s about time we started using our 2nd Amendment as well.


11 posted on 11/12/2015 1:00:41 AM PST by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: Impala64ssa
I personally am tired of hearing that first amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here,; Smith-Lezama said on MSNBC.

I wonder what her reaction is to this: Mizzou student body president admits to spreading false rumor KKK was on campus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3359149/posts

12 posted on 11/12/2015 1:06:50 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Got to wonder, what sort of actual value is represented by the "education" this dimbletwit is seeking?

They are too ignorant to even imagine just how ignorant they are.

13 posted on 11/12/2015 1:10:14 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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That she is ‘offended’; pleases me to no end...


14 posted on 11/12/2015 1:12:25 AM PST by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW...)
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To: Impala64ssa

Stalin is proud. He didn’t tolerate Free Speech either. So he created the Soviet Union, one large safe space for leftists.


15 posted on 11/12/2015 1:26:49 AM PST by RginTN
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To: Impala64ssa

Where was all this “healing” when we had to study p-chem, diff-eq, and a host of other really tough courses to get through each week?


16 posted on 11/12/2015 1:29:34 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Impala64ssa

http://hlrecord.org/2015/11/fascism-at-yale/

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/from_marxismcommunism_to_postmodern_liberal_fascism.html


17 posted on 11/12/2015 1:30:17 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Impala64ssa

Facts don’t matter; only advancing the narrative.

Guilt or innocence don’t matter; only the accusations.


18 posted on 11/12/2015 1:31:15 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Impala64ssa

These “brilliant” little snowflakes are the product of the Obama era. They were 10, 11, 12 when he was elected. They are possibly the least educated most pampered generation yet. Subjected to twisted doublespeak and political correctness honed by decades of the left in institutions of learning.


19 posted on 11/12/2015 1:36:14 AM PST by databoss
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To: Impala64ssa

You know what would be all my all time favorite 1st amendment right? To hear the Mizzou football team booed at 100 decibels by fans at their next home game. Now that would send a message.


20 posted on 11/12/2015 2:09:15 AM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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