Violence at UC-Berkeley: The Wacko Lefties Who Make Milo Even More Famous

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OUBubba said:
Generation coward. You might as well say Boomer Sooner.
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What's remarkable to me is who's spouting this stuff. Let's just be honest. The bar isn't very high for guys like you because of the Switzer photo. That spares you a lot of ridicule, because the expectations are so low. When you post goofy stuff, instead of hassling you about it, most of us are impressed. We're thinking, "damn, he can spell a few words. He must have gotten a PhD from OU."

He's actually a smart and well-educated guy who attended respectable institutions, so the bar is higher for him. It's like going to an Itzhak Perlman concert and expecting him to play the violin, but instead of doing so, he puts down the violin and decides to tell ten minutes of fart jokes and walks off the stage.
 
"Once the threat of violence can suppress speech, then actual violence can replace it."

Greg Gutfeld
 
I think I like NC. My kind of people.

I was watching that documentary on the King Riots in LA a week ago. As I watched them drag Reginald Denny from his truck I wondered, why the F didn't he just run over those SOBs?
 
One would think that a public University that is supported by taxpayers would have to at least feign impartiality in political matters.
 
Thomas Sowell explains very eloquently one reason we are in this boat on college campuses:



Nevermind the pic, that has nothing to do with the video. This interview is from 1990 and is quite prescient.
 
This is a brilliant analysis by Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) about free speech being thwarted at universities. This is a bit from a story he is commenting on:

It is important to realize just how far this newly emergent Left has strayed from the American Left of the immediate post-WWII decades. During the Cold War, it was often Social Democrats and other anti-Communist leftists who were leaders in the struggle to defend free speech, whether on college campuses or within the broader society.
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Here is Reynolds analysis that is spot on IMO:

In retrospect, it seems like that was really just a way of defending communists at universities, one that’s been discarded now that the communists are in charge.
 
Phil Elliott said:
This is a brilliant analysis by Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) about free speech being thwarted at universities. This is a bit from a story he is commenting on:



Here is Reynolds analysis that is spot on IMO:

In retrospect, it seems like that was really just a way of defending communists at universities, one that’s been discarded now that the communists are in charge.
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I think it's probably a mix. Some actually believe in free speech. These would be your Democratic political figures from the Cold War era, most of whom were hostile to communism and were educated before college campuses became overrun by radicals. They were liberal in the sense that they believed in civil rights and liberties (including the right of free speech), wanted a strong central government to aid the poor, supported labor unions, etc. They weren't radicals and didn't harbor contempt for traditional American institutions.

However, for others, the free speech issue was one of convenience not principle. These were actual believers in communism, or even if they didn't specifically embrace Marxist-Leninist thought, they were radicals who were allied with communists because they shared their contempt for traditional American institutions like family, free enterprise, the military (though this is less true than it used to be), and churches. I don't use the term "liberal" to define these people, because they aren't liberals by any definition. In fact they are the opposite of liberals. They are totalitarians, which is why I usually refer to them as the Left or hard Left.

I think we've probably had Leftists on college campuses for a century or longer, because their views were unpopular, which made places of free inquiry and thought attractive to them. Universities used to fit that description. However, in the '60s, they started to gain a real foothold (aided in part by naive liberals), and by the '80s and '90s they started to outnumber the non-radicals on campus. Now they dominate. In light of that shift, it's not surprising that free speech has become less and less of a priority on campus. It's also not surprising that college graduates have become more and more Leftist over the years.

Of course the danger is that when free speech goes away (which happens when all speech is suppressed or when there's viewpoint discrimination in what speech is protected by the state), it is replaced by force. Groups will form their own security forces, which turn into paramilitary forces that sometimes commit acts of violence and intimidation. Combine that with radical positions and practices that encourage racial, religious, and ethnic tribalism, and we could see a very toxic combination over the years.
 
Joe Fan said:
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From the comments that followed, those events are allegedly things that did NOT happen yesterday. Still does not change the reality that there are a bunch of idiots out there there trying to stomp out ALL dissenting views that don't comport with their delusional reality.
 
Looks like some internal Bannon emails were hacked and leaked
This is Pre-White House Bannon
This snippet is part of a conversation he had with Milo


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Milo is such a little B. I like how he tried to say that because of his medical condition he couldn't see all of the Nazis in the crowd giving him the hitler salute.
 
Well we know how much Hitler supported free speech for homosexual Jews! :D

But, yes, Milo is quite the jackass. He shouldn't be banned from speaking out in public, but he's no hero.
 
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