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In Ann Coulter’s Speech Battle, Signs That Conservatives Are Emboldened
NY Times ^ | April 27, 2017 | JEREMY W. PETERS

Posted on 04/27/2017 4:30:03 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Without uttering a word to students at the University of California, Berkeley, Ann Coulter on Wednesday made herself the latest cause célèbre in the rapidly escalating effort by conservatives to fight liberals on what was once the left’s moral high ground over free speech on campus.

Ms. Coulter, the acid-penned conservative writer, canceled a planned appearance on Thursday after the political organizations that invited her rescinded their support over fears of violence. “It’s a sad day for free speech,” she said.

But across the country, conservatives like her are eagerly throwing themselves into volatile situations like the one in Berkeley, emboldened by a backlash over what many Americans see as excessive political correctness, a president who has gleefully taken up their fight, and liberals they accuse of trying to censor any idea they disagree with.

The situation adds up to a striking reversal in the culture wars, with the left now often demanding that offensive content be excised from public discourse and those who promote it boycotted and shunned.

Berkeley has again become a symbolic flash point. The university was not just the cradle of the Free Speech Movement but also the site of a violent 1969 crackdown that delighted many protest-weary Americans when Ronald Reagan, then California’s governor, ordered the National Guard to move in on student demonstrators.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; berkeley; freespeech
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As usual, the NY Slimes misses the point.
1 posted on 04/27/2017 4:30:03 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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...what was once the left’s moral high ground over free speech on campus.

Actually, I would say they more lie about the point than miss it.

I do not recall a time during my 50 years where the left had the moral high ground over free speech on campus. They have always been about controlling and denying conservative speech.

2 posted on 04/27/2017 4:32:45 AM PDT by MortMan (Children are blessings, no matter how God brings them into your life.)
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>> what was once the left’s moral high ground over free speech on campus.

The divisive, repressive Left never held the moral high ground on speech. It is the enemy of liberty.


3 posted on 04/27/2017 4:37:37 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.


4 posted on 04/27/2017 4:42:33 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Ms. Coulter, the acid-penned conservative writer

Pretty much all anyone needs to know right there. No point in reading past that. Well... it is the slimes after all. One can't expect any real journalism or thought-provoking opinions to flow from that fish wrap and bird cage liner.

5 posted on 04/27/2017 4:43:16 AM PDT by Boomer (The MSM and Radicalized Dem Party are One and the SAME!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The NY Times intentionally misses the point. They pretend not to see a difference between censoring Ann Coulter’s speech and preventing “protests” that block roads or pipeline construction. They pretend it’s okay to censor some of what they call far-right views, just not quite as broad a spectrum of views as the terrorists of Antifa want to block. They pretend they are real news, when they are the role model for America’s #FakeNews industry.

Today’s journalists disgust me.


6 posted on 04/27/2017 4:44:04 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Gene Eric

snowflakes - our future leaders . . . when will they realize they are destroying liberty.


7 posted on 04/27/2017 4:46:23 AM PDT by GTM01
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Pompous ass adds an unnecessary and incorrect accent aigu to "celebre"
8 posted on 04/27/2017 4:55:59 AM PDT by golux
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To: Boomer
Ms. Coulter, the acid-penned conservative writer

So unlike Ms. Coulter Dowd, the acid-penned conservative liberal writer

9 posted on 04/27/2017 5:03:58 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

In this era of FAKE NEWS, I can’t figure out whether
Ann Coulter is speaking or not. There are posts showing it both ways here on FR this morning.


10 posted on 04/27/2017 5:04:02 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: stinkerpot65

That’s true even if they just love puppies.


11 posted on 04/27/2017 5:24:01 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I swear I heard Ann Coulter described as being a security threat to UC Berkeley’s student body. Last time I saw anything happenning there, it was the students themselves who did all the threatening.


12 posted on 04/27/2017 5:32:45 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: GTM01

Liberty is not their goal, or desire.

That is the difference.


13 posted on 04/27/2017 5:37:59 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: equaviator

No wonder they have a crappy football team.


14 posted on 04/27/2017 5:39:06 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE--- Berkeley has again become a symbolic flash point..... the site of a violent 1969 crackdown that delighted protest-weary Americans when Ronald Reagan, then California’s governor, ordered the National Guard to move in on student demonstrators.

Are ya listening Pres Trump?

15 posted on 04/27/2017 5:47:34 AM PDT by Liz (Shutting down conservatives' free speech IS a form of hate speech. samthemn)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I thought it was a continuation of the Lefty’s war on woman.


16 posted on 04/27/2017 5:51:48 AM PDT by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Trump should withhold all funding to Berkeley until the school can insure that free speech is protected. How can the government be confident that the research it funds is not tainted by political correctness?


17 posted on 04/27/2017 6:02:29 AM PDT by monocle
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’m sorry, but how does losing, capitulating, and not speaking “embolden” us?,


18 posted on 04/27/2017 6:46:35 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: MortMan

Correct. I wrote Ron Robinson, head of YAF and told him he lost on this. He blamed Coulter.


19 posted on 04/27/2017 6:47:53 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If we were emboldened she would make the speech.


20 posted on 04/27/2017 6:52:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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