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Old 2nd February 2017, 11:23 AM   #201
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Originally Posted by sir drinks-a-lot View Post
I thought you used the moniker "brownshirt"?
I did. The speaker from Breitbart is one of Der Fuhrer's brownshirts.
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Old 2nd February 2017, 11:25 AM   #202
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Old 2nd February 2017, 11:26 AM   #203
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Originally Posted by sunmaster14 View Post
Given the size of the university, and the small number of people participating in the protest, it should have been a simple matter for the campus police to provide adequate security.
I agree. It was common knowledge his appearance would coincide with protests. Whether poor planning or a poor policy for protest/riot police on campus, it shouldn't have escalated from what was a small portion of the student population causing trouble.


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I think that minimizes things a bit. Both from the population involved and the effect of the action in shutting down free speech. Imagine if it had been a little southern town of 38,000 rednecks and they responded to a black family moving in by having 1,500 KKK show up and burn a cross (albeit less than 1500 would actually be lighting fires)... we wouldn't be saying that it was 'at most 4% of the town turning up and even less burning stuff so there's no need for the Feds to take a look' - we'd be saying that it was a cesspit of hate and change is needed.
This is just a terrible analogy. Students protesting a controversial figure is equivalent to the KKK in a small town rallying in front of a black family burning crosses? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you just hastily threw together a counter point but honestly, that is not close to a comparable situation.

As to the Feds coming in to make a change, what specific thing are we going to be hoping they do exactly? Squash civil protests as a defense for freedom of speech? No good there. Take over local law enforcement to react to civil unrest in a harsher way? With what authority? Can't have Feds waiting for something to happen at every college in the country.

Seems like something local government should be handling. Whatever damage is done, there will be a cost to someone. Let them have their voices heard if they want any specific changes to ensure it doesn't happen again.
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Old 2nd February 2017, 11:26 AM   #204
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Originally Posted by sadhatter View Post
I'll explain that.

Add someone who does not support these types of actions in any form I know those that do tend to not care about beginning fair to the other side (no worse than right wing extremists in my opinion) ,so we are trying to show them that they are not kicking the other side in the nuts but shooting our side in the foot.
Here's the problem. They don't support or care about you one bit more than that 'other side.'

You are useful to them in terms of having someone to hide behind and take batons to the face for them after they throw the brick and run away like cowards.

If you object to being used like that, they'll say you're not showing solidarity with them. If you refuse to engage in violence with them, they'll say you lack resolve. If you ask them to stop throwing bricks, they'll tell you how dare you oppress them. If you eject them from your march, they'll say you're traitors. If you finger them to the cops for committing crimes and threatening the public goodwill of your movement, they'll call you collaborators.

Are you seeing a pattern here?
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Old 2nd February 2017, 11:27 AM   #205
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I'm all broken up about that man's rights
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Shouldn't you be?
First, they came for the homosexual proto-fascist internet celebrities, but since I wasn't a homosexual proto-fascist internet celebrity - I said nothing...
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Old 2nd February 2017, 11:29 AM   #206
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Joking aside,I find that some people here think violence is OK to keep someone from speaking to be disgusting. Frankly, they are no better then Trump when it comes to free speech.
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Old 2nd February 2017, 11:31 AM   #207
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Originally Posted by Praktik View Post
First, they came for the homosexual proto-fascist internet celebrities, but since I wasn't a homosexual proto-fascist internet celebrity - I said nothing...
a homosexual proto-fascist internet celebrity has the same right to free speech as anybody else.
I find the people who..quite rightly.condemn Trump for his attacks on free speech but then approve the Berkeley actions to be incredible hypocrites.
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Old 2nd February 2017, 11:32 AM   #208
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Originally Posted by TragicMonkey View Post
And you appear to be mistaking a few smashed windows for 'an actual shooting war'.
Like I said, smashed windows are just another day in Berkeley.


I condemn the actions, don't get me wrong, but it is just to be expected in Bersekley.
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Originally Posted by acbytesla View Post
I did. The speaker from Breitbart is one of Der Fuhrer's brownshirts.
Ah, OK. For a second there, I thought I was confused. Now I see that it's you.
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I did. The speaker from Breitbart is one of Der Fuhrer's brownshirts.
and that makes the Black Shirts attacking them, what exactly?
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Originally Posted by Praktik View Post
First, they came for the homosexual proto-fascist internet celebrities, but since I wasn't a homosexual proto-fascist internet celebrity - I said nothing...
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Here, in Northern California, it's a case of "Hey, it's Berkley.What Can You Expect?".
While true, it doesn't make it right.
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Originally Posted by dudalb View Post
a homosexual proto-fascist internet celebrity has the same right to free speech as anybody else.
I find the people who..quite rightly.condemn Trump for his attacks on free speech but then approve the Berkeley actions to be incredible hypocrites.
I like imagining all the hypocrites out there too. Reinforces my beliefs and all, cause typically my imagined hypocrisy in another has a mirror image of no such hypocrisy in my beliefs on the same subject.

I guess I just genuinely see all this stuff as a tempest in a teapot - if people wanna hear milo they still can.

THis is more culture war flashpoint, and this thread demonstrates that quite quickly - than it is a signal event in the eternal fight for the protection of individual rights from adverse rollback.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.... I guess?

Wake me up when there's something interesting happening...
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Originally Posted by Giz View Post
While true, it doesn't make it right.
I agree, it is just sort of this happens about once a year in Berkeley over some issue. It is just getting massive publicity this time.
Andother Norcal saying: "It is always 1968 in Berkeley".
But that riot footage was close to a really good Indian Restaurant in Berkeley;hope it was not damaged. They do a great Chicken Marsala.
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and that makes the Black Shirts attacking them, what exactly?
Heroic fighters in the struggle against the Muslim Kenyan black atheist America hating socialist racist anti-white fascist super nazi white supremacist racist mansplaining manspreading culturally appropriating misogynistic patriarchy loving President.
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So predictable. Don't ever change!
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Originally Posted by The Big Dog View Post
and that makes the Black Shirts attacking them, what exactly?
When someone is saying they want to deprive you of the home and life you have built in America would you be polite in your response? It's a question of perspective. You think you're protecting America, they are rightly fearful of their future. I don't agree with their tactics, but I do understand them.
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Trump 2020 is a lock at this rate
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Originally Posted by acbytesla View Post
I'm not sure where you came up with your statistics. I'd bet that they were pulled out of someone's ass.
After a bit of digging, they seem to have been posted by last week by Breitbart, who was quoting the San Diego Union-Tribune, who were probably referencing an online survey done by Berkeley in 2015.

I'm providing that simply as information; I am not going to defend the reliability of online surveys or the relevance of a 2015 survey to the current political environment.

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Trump 2020 is a lock at this rate
Nope. But it's cute you believe it.
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Trump 2020 is a lock at this rate
It's hard to imagine Democratic voters not turning out in greater numbers next time, assuming Trump runs for reelection.
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But that riot footage was close to a really good Indian Restaurant in Berkeley;hope it was not damaged. They do a great Chicken Marsala.
That would make it a great British Restaurant, no?
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Originally Posted by mgidm86 View Post
Sad doesn't even come close.
It's certainly desperately weak. If it doesn't look like tolerance that's probably not what it is.

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That doesn't look like tolerance, and indeed it isn't.

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Yet look who started all of the violence.
Anarchists. It's what they do.

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Look who is being targeted.
And not tolerated.

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More intolerance (to say the least) from the left.
These are anarchists. Everybody hates anarchists.

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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.
Dozens, you say. How many students are there at Berkeley?

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I wonder if they were actually students at all.
And there's that, of course.

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I guess Berkeley, along with government officials all over the state, don't care that 74% of Californians are against sanctuary cities.
You guess this from the actions of dozens of anarchists, of whom an unknown number are students.

Ironically, the reason we all hate anarchists is that they are narcissists.
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It's hard to imagine Democratic voters not turning out in greater numbers next time, assuming Trump runs for reelection.
4 years is a lot of time. What the dynamic will be in a year is hard to judge let alone 4. I can't imagine that if the orange turd continues to cause this much turmoil that he will be reelected. He didn't have a majority in this election. But Trump and the Republicans I'm sure will be hard at work to disenfranchise as many voters as possible.
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That would make it a great British Restaurant, no?
Is there such a thing? Great British food is kind of an oxymoron.
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It's hard to imagine Democratic voters not turning out in greater numbers next time, assuming Trump runs for reelection.
This is why Republicans will pass more laws to make voting inaccessible. For example, in NC, Republicans already passed bills that allow only Republicans to be in the state election committee during election years. Democrats have "equal" access by having the committee during non-election years.
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When someone is saying they want to deprive you of the home and life you have built in America would you be polite in your response?
Sounds like they're afraid of losing their privilege.
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But Trump and the Republicans I'm sure will be hard at work to disenfranchise as many voters as possible.
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This is why Republicans will pass more laws to make voting inaccessible.
Hadn't thought of that.

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That doesn't sound constitutional.
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Who gives a rip? We're supposed to be angels of virtue while the minority alt-right takes over the government and drags it toward the drain or WWIII, it's unclear which at this point.

And you start a thread whining about some protestors who have had enough! Color me unconcerned.
Caught this one before I logged in.

I watched a young woman get pepper sprayed in the face while doing a TV interview. Another person was knocked out. I'm watching these asshats burn and destroy their campus - who will pay for this? Taxpayers?

Yeah right I'M whining?

<SNIP> and your buddies over here our destroying their own campus.

You people need to calm the hell down - but then again, you, yes you since you support them, are once again playing to Trumps tune. You think people are going to tolerate this? Do you think you are convincing a single person that you are somehow right?

WWIII - I hope someday you all will look back and see how infantile your behavior is. To me it's twilight zone.

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Is there such a thing? Great British food is kind of an oxymoron.
Flavour is kept understated, so it can be eaten with a stiff upper lip.
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That doesn't sound constitutional.
Hell, it doesn't even sound plausible.
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These are anarchists.
Evidence? How did you exclude any other left-wing antifascist position?

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All we know is that they support a "no platform" position. Would you say "everybody" hates "no platform"? And who exactly is "everybody"?

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This is why Republicans will pass more laws to make voting inaccessible. For example, in NC, Republicans already passed bills that allow only Republicans to be in the state election committee during election years. Democrats have "equal" access by having the committee during non-election years.
Do you have a cite? That sounds nuts.
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Hell, it doesn't even sound plausible.
I was trying to be nice about it.
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Originally Posted by willim View Post
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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While Yiannopoulos is gay, he has stated that gay rights are detrimental to humanity, and that gay men should "get back in the closet".[98] He has described being gay as "aberrant" and "a lifestyle choice guaranteed to bring [gay people] pain and unhappiness".[99] He has said that he would love to experiment with conversion therapy, but not because he thinks it'll work.[100]
In September 2015, Yiannopoulos guest-starred on Joe Rogan's YouTube show, The Joe Rogan Experience. During the show, Yiannopoulos claimed to have lost his virginity at age 13 "in an interracial fivesome with a drag queen".[101] Some have accused Yiannopoulos of exaggerating his homosexuality for comic effect, and falling back on homophobic tropes in doing so.[16]

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In late 2015, Yiannopoulos began a campus speaking tour called "The Dangerous Faggot Tour", encompassing universities in the United States and Great Britain. A number of his scheduled speeches in Great Britain were cancelled.[102] Although most of his American speeches were not cancelled, some were met with notable protest ranging from vocal disruptions to cancellation via the heckler's veto. The journalist Audrey Goddard analysed his speech at the University of Pittsburgh. He concludes that Yiannopoulos spends the "majority of the time voicing his opinions with little to no factual statements accompanying them", which he thought was ironic taking in account how Yiannopoulos repeatedly insisted "that he was just stating "facts.""[103]
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16] Kirchick, James (1 June 2016). "The Sad Story of Milo Yiannopoulos: the Trump Troll With Daddy Issues". Tablet Magazine.
98] Gay rights have made us dumber. It's time to get back in the closet
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Do we know these weren't false flag violence spewers?

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Flavour is kept understated, so it can be eaten with a stiff upper lip.
Oh that explains it! I thought they just didn't want to be mistaken as French.
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I didn't say I was opposed to violence. I was merely pointing out that what occurred at Berkeley wasn't a 'shooting' civil war. You seem to be unable to distinguish between levels of action, equating a broken window with full-scale war. There are many levels between those two things, and they are each appropriate in different circumstances.
Perhaps one level between a broken window and full-scale war is beating a person to a level of unconsciousness.

People being beaten
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This isn't really about the students - of course most did not get violent. I'm hearing that over 100 did, but numbers are all over the place. I wonder how many are cool with it.

It doesn't matter. My first reaction was to knee-jerk hate Berkeley, but were these people paid to do this? Was it sponsored? It's the bigger picture I'm concerned about, not Berkeley.

People are getting attacked - not widespread, but condoning this only adds to that fire.

Your gal lost the election. Deal with it. The racists and KKK handled the first black president better than this. These people are exactly what they are protesting against.
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I did. The speaker from Breitbart is one of Der Fuhrer's brownshirts.
Sure that's reasonable. Your side proves their choice of wearing brown shirts and you blame Trump.
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