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Those are all 'shopped
Yeah! Ban protesters!
in the end, EMAW will always win.
The protesters got what they wanted and the speaker clearly got what he wanted by holding an event on a campus with "man of taste and distinction" in the title. I don't know what Dax is mad about, seems like a win/win
It was all free speech.
Quote from: michigancat on February 11, 2016, 11:00:58 AMIt was all free speech.Obviously the First Amendment doesn't give you the right to speak whenever, wherever and however you want.
Matthew Boyer, president of Young Americans for Liberty's Rutgers chapter, disagrees.Young Americans for Liberty invited Yiannopoulos to the school in order to expose students to opinions that do not align with their own, Boyer said. In the past few years, Boyer said college students have been censoring ideas on campus that do not match their own liberal views. Such instances at Rutgers include the Condoleezza Rice protests in 2012 and the school’s restrictive “free speech zones.”“No matter how provocative or taboo the speech may be, there’s still a value to that speech," said Boyer, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I think it’s really important to hear people come speak, even if you don’t agree with them.”Boyer believes there is a hypocrisy in social justice movements, whose demonstrators want the freedom to protest racial inequality, but simultaneously want to quell opposing views using “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings.”“If you’re a climate change denier, you might be upset that Bill Nye came and pushed climate change at your commencement. But those people weren’t protesting at your commencement,” said Boyer, whose own “trigger words” include Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Quote from: Dlew12 on February 11, 2016, 11:44:43 AMQuote from: michigancat on February 11, 2016, 11:00:58 AMIt was all free speech.Obviously the First Amendment doesn't give you the right to speak whenever, wherever and however you want.Most people don't know this, but the First Amendment really only requires that the government not pre-censor speech (i.e., stop you from saying something) except for extreme circumstances. You can still be held accountable for what you actually say.
