Posted on 08/14/2017 10:34:51 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
(CNN)Texas A&M has canceled a white nationalist protest planned in September, citing safety concerns.
White nationalists, neo-Nazis and other extremist groups had planned to hold a "white lives matter" rally at Texas A&M on September 11. The school canceled the rally Monday evening "because of concerns about the safety of its students, faculty, staff, and the public." Richard Spencer, the white supremacist who helped found the so-called alt-right movement, was set to speak at the event, according to the Battalion, Texas A&M's student newspaper.
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I guess this means Jason Kessler from Obama’s Occupy will have to find a different venue as well...
“”None of the 1,200-plus campus organizations invited Preston Wiginton nor did they agree to sponsor his events in December 2016 or on September 11 of this year,” the school said in a statement.”
Hat Tip to the Aggies!
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Gig ‘Em!
From a Horn!
Two big things are purposefully being lost sight of here-
1)everyone has a right to free speech even if their views are not popular
2)left wing extremist groups (Black lives matter, antifa etc) are at least as bad, if not worse than right wing groups.
Donald’s capitulation today guaranteed all Conservatives-—Alt Right will now be considered “White Supremacist”, and their events will be nixed. Great Work, Donald
Our government has decided that the 1st Amendment no longer applies to it.
It is not that they are not allowed at Texas A&M, it is that no one at Texas A&M wants to invite them.
They are not welcome on campus.
“Our government has decided that the 1st Amendment no longer applies to it.”
That is not the case at Texas A&M.
I’ll bet Black Lives Matter, Antifa, LULAC, NAACP, La Raza, SDS or 1,000 other left-wing groups could rally or march there tomorrow, even without a permit.
Probably can’t get insurance to cover it, also.
That sort of thing has already been happening to a certain degree - witness what happens in some places to conservative speakers like David Horowitz, Anne Coulter, Ben Shapiro, etc. - they have to be cancelled because they are literally in mortal danger. In addition to conservative individuals and organizations being designated as “hate groups” just because they don’t like they offer a different take on things than they do and therefore “nondiverse”. Hence, why so many were initially skeptical at media coverage that the rally in Charlottesville actually did involve white supremacist organizations because of all of the previous, uncountable number of false depictions of people that were not white supremacists as white supremacists, racists, etc. They are terms that have been thrown around so loosely in deliberately false reporting it was initially dismissed as the same thing again...after a bit of research it was clear that, indeed, we did not have the KKK, neo-Nazis, David Duke, etc. as the organizers and participants in that event - low and behold, they actually were white supremacists. But the left / media will continue the false narrative and probably claim any conservative organization or individual was a member of these groups that organized the rally.
To hold an event on campus, you have to be sponsored by an organization on campus.
However, no organization on campus wants those people on their campus.
Yes, I think the point he was making was the potential for a double standard - if a hate group / violent group associated with the left wing of politics were planning the rally they may not have blocked it even without an invitation.
I stand by my statement. If one of the sacred cows that I named wanted to rally, demonstrate or march tomorrow, no one would stop them. Hitler disbanded all the opposition political parties in one of his first moves as chancellor. How is that different from not allowing one side to rally here?
9 dead, 30 wounded over the weekend in Chicagoland.
Nothing to see here, there was a traffic accident.
Just another weekend in Chicago .....
“I’ll bet Black Lives Matter, Antifa, LULAC, NAACP, La Raza, SDS or 1,000 other left-wing groups could rally or march there tomorrow, even without a permit.”
Prairie View A&M should invite Richard Spencer to hold a White Lives Matter Rally on their campus.
Its status as a land grant college makes it a government school.
Yes, I know - it’s semi-government which means it doesn’t have to follow the law which is what prompted my original post.
Spencer spoke on the A&M campus last year.
If an Aggie student group were to invite him to campus, the A&M administration would have difficulty stopping it.
But for now, no Aggie wants him on their campus.
What does that mean? I’m not carrying water for Richard Spencer, the Alt. Right, the Nazis, the KKK or any of those types of groups. What I’m saying is that the majority of political violence lately has come from the Left, not the skinheads or crackers.
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