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conservative writer, canceled a planned appearance on Thursday after the political organizations that invited her rescinded their support over fears of violence.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.
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Except for Young America’s Foundation and that pseudocon wimp Ron Robinson. This is why their takeover of Young Americans for Freedom was a bad thing. When I was in YAF, we would have escorted Ann through the crowd.
Uh, seriously?
Maybe, retracted their invitation but they did not recind their support. NYT what a bag...
Did Robinson explain WHY it was Coulter’s fault? Disappointing.
When its gone, and they won’t even notice.
The problem with Coulter’s cancellation is that it confirms for the left-wing domestic terrorists that conservatives are not willing to take a stand that will result in some (or many) of the domestic terrorists, because of their own violent actions, getting themselves killed.
Definitely a problem. And that’s why the succeeding generations must be taught to counter the destructive snowflakes.
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