“This is what tolerance looks like at UC Berkeley”

ChrisBFRPKY said:
Violation of Constitutional rights.

I don't like speech like this guy spills either, but he has a right to speak it.
Chris B.
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You'd have to demonstrate that UC Berkeley violated Yiannopoulos' rights somehow. Unless you think he should sue the rioters? "Act of God" comes to mind.
 
sunmaster14 said:
Milo is not boring. He's fascinating. He's also extremely articulate and insightful. Yes, he is intentionally provocative and offensive, and he exaggerates his insights to the point of being obscene, but he has explained some things that I hadn't understood before. I'm happy to start a Milo thread to discuss.
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I've been following him for a while now. And he has written some pretty funny and insightful stuff. And some stuff that was wildly of the mark (his explanation of the Alt-Right).

But he has been on infinite repeat for a while now. I lost interest and was thinking his star would soon start to fade.

But now that he has a $ 250.000 book deal and his trolling has actually provoked a spectacular riot that is even in the News here in the Netherlands. His trolling has worked. It is highlighting how nuts and dangerous his detractors are and how ideologically one-sided the universities are, and how hostile to 'wrongthink'.

In one swoop, Antifa introduces Milo to a huge audience that will take a while to tire of him and will buy his book. He also does his thing as a Breitbart icon, putting that platform on the map too. Antifa made Milo rich and famous today.

Counter-productive doesn't even begin to describe it.
 
willim said:
Milo Yiannopoulos is Jewish, openly gay, and he was born in Greece.

That makes those who hate him and want to silence him anti-semitic, homophobic, and xenophobic.

This says a lot about the supposed "tolerance" of the left when they attack and silence a gay Jewish man who hails from a foreign country.

Hypocrites.
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You failed to mention that all of Milo's boyfriends are black. Add racist to those who want to silence him.
 
Delphic Oracle said:
Yeah, but he got a free venue upgrade to prime time news that can reach millions.
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Did he? They're not actually giving him a platform.

Maybe people will watch a segment and say "If Berkeley students hate him, he must be on to something!" and buy his book, but I doubt it--people who think that way are mostly aliterate.
 
ChrisBFRPKY said:
Violation of Constitutional rights.

I don't like speech like this guy spills either, but he has a right to speak it.
Chris B.
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What the hell are you talking about? He speaks all over the place. He "powns" and "schools" fools and libtards on the youtubes all the doo-dah-day. His irresistible gayboy tour (or whatever he calls it) got cancelled on the last stop. He got paid, got his "message" (whatever that is) out, and will reap the PR rewards of this silly debacle for quite awhile.

We've spoken before on this issue and free speech doesn't mean you get to spew consequence free everywhere, all the time.
 
This too shall pass. Rage and protest will keep happening as Trump continues "foreigners bad" rhetoric. But nobody who matters...Republicans will vote Republican no matter what....will remember this 2 years from now. Trump himself will be in the limelight in 2018 and the major new factor in congressional elections. It's all about Trump no matter what.
 
Dumb All Over said:
You failed to mention that all of Milo's boyfriends are black. Add racist to those who want to silence him.
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I sometimes suspect he invented his fetish for black dudes, as to give his opponents something extra to be conflicted about.

Trolling, trolling, trolling...
 
ChrisBFRPKY said:
The actions at UC Berkeley are typical of the Left wing agenda. They cannot survive when opposing views are expressed so they must silence anyone they don't agree with. These news stories are becoming more common now. I don't know if it's by accident or intentional but the Left is being exposed for what it truly is more and more lately. This is very good and will further shape our next elections.

There is no 1st Amendment allowed for you if you say things they don't like. That's not freedom. That's what they want for the Country. Sorry, everyone has the right to free speech in the US and you'll not change that.
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Oh joy, another person who doesn't understand what the First Amendment means.
 
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caveman1917 said:
Which violence exactly?

You've got to give it to them, the tactics by Milo's crowd do work. First you shoot people who disagree with your views, and then when these people get angry and show up to thoroughly disrupt your gatherings you get sympathetic media attention.
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"disagree"? Belly shot was attacking the guy.

Clean shot
 
More than 100 UC Berkeley faculty members had signed two letters sent last month to the school's chancellor, urging him to cancel the event.

About half of research at Berkeley is funded by the federal government, according to the university website. Berkeley however has been struggling in the past years with budget shortfalls and spending deficits.

Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/speech-breitbart-editor-nixed-protest-berkeley-033717924.html
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A lot of these hard-core Leftist organizations will be struggling to keep their doors open once Trump pulls their federal funding.
 
caveman1917 said:
You've got to give it to them, the tactics by Milo's crowd do work. First you shoot people who disagree with your views, and then when these people get angry and show up to thoroughly disrupt your gatherings you get sympathetic media attention.
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From your link:
We don’t have confirmation that the person who shot*our comrade was a counter-protester angry at those*protesting Milo’s hateful white nationalist misogyny. We do know that he turned himself into the police several hours later, claiming ‘self-defense.’ This, of course, is exactly what Scarsella did as well.
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Read, "dude was shot by one of our own, but that doesn't really matter."
 
marplots said:
You'd have to demonstrate that UC Berkeley violated Yiannopoulos' rights somehow. Unless you think he should sue the rioters? "Act of God" comes to mind.
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The security for the event provided by Cal was woefully inadequate. Everybody could see that in advance. You can't get around the 1st Amendment by intentionally allowing a heckler's veto.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
Great publicity for Milo as his new book "Dangerous" is set to be released soon. I wanted to go to this event, but was disappointed when I tried to buy tickets in late November and it was already sold out. In light of recent events, I just knew there was going to be a riot.

This just drives home the point, if it hasn't been obvious enough already: the real greatest threat to the US is the hysterical intolerance and dogmatism of the progressive left.
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Too funny.

I am proudly intolerant of bigots and people who show intolerance to others based on race or religion.

Got a problem with that?
 
mgidm86 said:
Sad doesn't even come close.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Protesters-storm-Milo-Yiannopoulos-event-at-UC-10901829.php

Yet look who started all of the violence. Look who is being targeted. This is bad even for Berkeley.


More intolerance (to say the least) from the left. I'd say it was only a few individuals who ruined it, but it was not.

Dozens of masked students started fires, stormed barricades, threw bricks, fireworks and "smoking objects" at police, knocked over and vandalized a generator and light that were set up, smashed windows....I forget the rest.
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Should be in the "Massive wave of hate" thread...
 
NoahFence said:
Too funny.

I am proudly intolerant of bigots and people who show intolerance to others based on race or religion.

Got a problem with that?
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I do. A big problem. Because I don't trust you to judge how intolerant other people are. Nor do I trust you to be neutral in your opposition to intolerance. Intolerance of intolerance is not a virtue.
 
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