Ironic, isn’t it, that Berkeley is eagerly tossing aside its historical legacy as a place that avowed freedom of speech? My, how far it has fallen.
#18. Berkeley NEVER was “a place that avowed freedom of speech”. It only “avowed” it for anarchists and Communists, and since the Communist Party of California was the prime mover of the “Free Speech Movement” as it was getting organized, the concept of “free speech for all” was never one of the goals or a permitted goal for any other group.
See the California State Hearings on Un-American Activities as to what really went on there, with names, dates, real information.