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College student goes ballistic in attack on pro-life display
Life site news ^ | 7 Apr 2017 | Steve Weatherbe

Posted on 04/10/2017 6:34:05 AM PDT by Cronos

A Texas State University student who prides himself on tolerance punched, kicked, and tore up several pro-life signs while a local activist set them up in a central campus square.

Captured on video by several passersby, politics and government student Ian Ramos shouted obscenities at the unidentified pro-lifer and ran from sign to sign, knocking them over, kicking and punching them. Finally, he later told a reporter, he was calmed down by a professor and escorted to her office to avoid police.

...Ramos later defended his actions to alternative news sources such as the Daily Caller and The Tab. Asked if he would do it again, he said, “Yeah. I am unapologetic about it. I think this kind of thing — I am a tolerant person and I believe in tolerance, but I do not have to be tolerant to bigots. It was just a reaction. In the long run, we want to be having constructive dialogues to change things, but in the moment I don’t regret what I did. I think I spoke for a lot of people.”

He also said, “I’m a pretty reasonable person. I’m a pretty objective person. I do have a bigger personality than other people, I think.” Ramos admitted the goal of the pro-life display, a yearly feature on campus, was to provoke discussion. However, “I didn’t really want to have a constructive dialogue with him. I just wanted to tell him what I thought about his fundamentalist propaganda.”..

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abortion; academicbias; babykilling; censorship; hatespeech; mentalillness; prolife; psychopath; texas; tolerance
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From the article “This is what you do when you can’t rationally defend your position,” said Greg Cunningham, founder of the pro-life Center for Bioethical Reform. “You make sure the people with a contrary position don’t get an opportunity to even present it.”
1 posted on 04/10/2017 6:34:05 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

When the 1st Amendment fails, the 2nd Amendment fills the void..................


2 posted on 04/10/2017 6:36:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: Cronos
Has anyone ever checked this pig's immigration status?
3 posted on 04/10/2017 6:37:16 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Cronos

Highly doubtful that the school administration will take any action to discipline this “student” Yet consider the response of the same administration if another student tore up and destroyed an icon of the Left.


4 posted on 04/10/2017 6:38:21 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Cronos
Yeah. I am unapologetic about it. I think this kind of thing — I am a tolerant person and I believe in tolerance, but I do not have to be tolerant to bigots.

I don't think his definition of "tolerance" means what the rest of us think it means.

5 posted on 04/10/2017 6:39:10 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: Cronos

6 posted on 04/10/2017 6:39:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: Lou L

If he gets any more ‘tolerant’ someone will shoot his sorry ass...............


7 posted on 04/10/2017 6:40:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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To: Red Badger

AMEN!


8 posted on 04/10/2017 6:40:55 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Cronos

Used to be...character references were required to be admitted into college. Now we see why.


9 posted on 04/10/2017 6:40:59 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Gosh, he used the word “I” an awful lot. Reminds me of someone...


10 posted on 04/10/2017 6:41:45 AM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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I do not have to be tolerant to bigots

Guess who gets to decide who are the bigots?

11 posted on 04/10/2017 6:41:45 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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“I’m a pretty reasonable person. I’m a pretty objective person. I do have a bigger personality than other people, I think.” Ramos admitted the goal of the pro-life display, a yearly feature on campus, was to provoke discussion. However, “I didn’t really want to have a constructive dialogue with him. I just wanted to tell him what I thought about his fundamentalist propaganda.”

This fool has been taking Kool-aid intravenously for so long that he can’t even recognize his own hypocrisy. They need to cut his dose down before he hurts someone.


12 posted on 04/10/2017 6:43:36 AM PDT by mom of young patriots
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To: Gay State Conservative

He looks American, and with a name like Ian, pretty definitely is born in the USA.


13 posted on 04/10/2017 6:44:58 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Red Badger

At the very least, someone should kick Ian Ramos’ sorry ass.


14 posted on 04/10/2017 6:47:37 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: Cronos
I am a tolerant person and I believe in tolerance, but I do not have to be tolerant to bigots.

Perhaps this university should offer a mandatory course on the meaning of the word "tolerance". It sounds their students could use at least an entire quarter learning the actual definition of that word.
15 posted on 04/10/2017 6:48:34 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Ian Ramos is zealously committed to his religion and it’s child sacrifice.


16 posted on 04/10/2017 6:48:49 AM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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I doubt UT, despite its Austin milieu, would allow this. It’s Texas State.


17 posted on 04/10/2017 6:50:48 AM PDT by relictele (`)
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So... to the left you’re a “bigot” if you do not want to murder babies.


18 posted on 04/10/2017 6:52:01 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: Cronos

You should use the headline as posted on the original website. Your changed headline is incorrect as this incident took place at Texas State University, NOT the University of Texas. These are two entirely different institutions.


19 posted on 04/10/2017 6:52:35 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I wonder how he would describe a bigot?


20 posted on 04/10/2017 6:55:51 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff in town.)
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