He got hit at least once with something that looked like a sign.
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Milo Yiannopoulos's UC Berkeley speech cancelled due to protests, campus on lockdown
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He got hit at least once with something that looked like a sign.
Milo: I'm obviously not the racist or sexist guy that they claim that I am
L M A O
Yeah my bad he did get hit twice or so.
L M A O
Yeah my bad he did get hit twice or so.
excelsiorlef
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No one cares what the fuckwit has to say.
The right side can make the wrong moves, the actual institution this protest was held is a defense to the spread of that ideology. If education is failing or people can not afford education, politicians are not making statements and peaceful protests have no effect, laws are not accommodating and you have done and exhausted every alternative to fight what continues to spread, then yes it seems a revolution in some sense is needed. But if people are just taking the law into their own hands and attacking people outside of the law, that is going to backfire and from the person shot earlier at a Milo event it seems like it already has.
In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. Cesar Chavez
SkoomaSuckinSwit
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everyday math
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Well since you care. Give us a summary, cause I'm not giving him a click.
excelsiorlef
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Doc Holliday
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You're not the one who had to remodel characters because people on social media didn't like the proportions of female characters
Freedom of speech doesn't apply to some poster on the internet, it applies to the government. Maybe educate yourself.
excelsiorlef
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You're not the one who had to remodel characters because people on social media didn't like the proportions of female characters
Poor you
It's ironic for right wingers like Milo who preach about individual responsibility as the answer to every problem forget about the idea of individual responsibility when it comes to a few bad actors in a protest of ~1000 people to paint the entire group as bad and destructive. Why yes, the entirety of the protest and by extension the entire left-wing of the body politic is crazy because one guy set a light on fire....
I don't like violence, I don't approve of violence. But I also don't live a privileged enough life to believe for a second that violence is 100% unacceptable even in the defense of what's right. Hate speech isn't inconsequential. Not challenging hate speech leads to its growth and acceptable. It leads to Trump. It has very real consequences.
I'm not able to pretend that violence has never helped the cause of justice or that violence should only be the weapon of the powerful.
I'm not able to pretend that violence has never helped the cause of justice or that violence should only be the weapon of the powerful.
Mercury Fred
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You're not the one who had to remodel characters because people on social media didn't like the proportions of female characters
wouldn't mind seeing the before / after because frankly i think a lot of designs for female characters are bad and wouldn't mind them being reworked. not out of some sense of outrage or political correctness, but as a matter of taste.
Last I checked on that matter both the shooter and the person shot were alt right folk.
And I like laughing at grown ass men who don't actually know what freedom of speech means. Pro tip: It doesn't mean I have to listen to a fucking thing you or Milo have to say. Use the same device you typed that reply on to look up "Freedom of Speech" so that you don't misuse it again in the future.
Cheers.
You're not the one who had to remodel characters because people on social media didn't like the proportions of female characters
Holy shit what a tragedy lmao
Bl@de
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Those Antifa people are criminals and nothing else. Dressing up in black with masks and attacking people with poles and pepperspray. Oh, and destroying property of others and public institutions.
Demonstrate all you want. Make your own events were you speak up against Milo and others. But anyone who is supporting actions like that is not better than those criminals.
Demonstrate all you want. Make your own events were you speak up against Milo and others. But anyone who is supporting actions like that is not better than those criminals.
everyday math
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Well being banned would cause that lol >_>
That video. Hmmm it is hard to watch. Need more info on the people being beaten.
That video. Hmmm it is hard to watch. Need more info on the people being beaten.
Doc Holliday
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Oh come on, I put a happy face in there to show that it wasn't a big deal lol
What? I'm now anti feminism? please look at my post history.
They did make their own event tonight, opportunistic anarchists just took advantage when they heard there was a protest going on and showed up to these things like they always do.
It's a shame the anarchist agitators never showed up to those tea party events, you would think anarchists would be all about that too.
That's what people were saying online right after it happened. I haven't looked at any updates admittedly. But people were initially saying it was a misunderstanding between two people at first.
Doc Holliday
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lol sorry its way too late for me to be posting.
Its the paul ryan avatar....fucks with my head
Bl@de
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And that's why everyone has to speak up against those anarchists. Doesn't matter if you voted Trump, Hillary, Stein or Johnson. They don't help anyone and just want chaos. But the sad truth is, that I see a lot of acceptance from Anti-Trump people for things like that.
MHWilliams
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Since we're offering such rhetorical questions, I offer a counter-question, based partially on another available thread: How many have to die before a civil unjustice is deemed a problem?
If people are dying because of the results of discussion and ideology, where does the line fall?
If violent action is never okay - and again, I've already said I believe it was a problem in this case - then how do you square that with instances where violent action lead to great, positive societal change?
Bam Bam Baklava
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If that were true he wouldn't be making a living off being a real world internet troll. I may be wrong, but if people had allowed him to show up to these campuses and speak to his room full of 10 MRA fanboys, he wouldn't be 1/100th of what he is now. Tonight just made him richer by who knows how much.
MadJackChurchill
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Virtue signaling!!! Does that mean we win automatically?
Freedom of speech means the government can't persecute us for our opinions and ideas. It does not mean we the people must tolerate hateful rhetoric.
excelsiorlef
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Nonsense...
How can you get mad at me for saying no one gives a fuck and then claim if we just let him talk only 10 people would show up.
And no one here gives a fuck is my context, as in don't post his bullshit videos.
Taking him off Twitter also made him richer but fuck him it was the right thing to do.
When he speaks he encourages harassment of real life people, so fuck him it is the right thing to do.
In short fuck him.
I voted for the Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate, those four people suck balls (and not the good kind of ball sucking). I'm not sure how speaking up against anarchist agitators is going to do much to convince the agitators to not commit random acts of violence and destruction with black masks on in relative anonymity, if anything it will encourage them. Kind of reminds me of the belief that all we need to do is educate folks on why Islamic extremism is bad when actual Muslim extremists laugh and use it as propaganda about the west hating Islam in general. It doesn't work. Luckily most people generally understand that violence and breaking shit is a no-no.
Bonen no Max'd
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Hate speech has real consequences for people who have done nothing. If punching a Nazi means the people shot up in the Canadian mosque are still alive right now, is it so bad to punch the Nazi?
Where is the proof of this? These people were powerful long before now. He encourages and spreads dangerous ideas, and by leaving them unchallenged we've let them fester into a serious problem. How long have we said "don't read the comments section because it's a festering pile of filth" while ignoring the fact that the people posting on those were real people who retreated to white nationalist communities where they get radicalized?
I think this is secretly why the Women's Marches were successful where something like "Resist Trump" would not have been. Black Bloc types are almost universally young and male and while not necessarily misogynist in themselves, tend to stay away from events that don't tacitly stroke their egos.
Messofanego
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Austin Walker is the man.Just gonna leave this truth bomb here
White man gets shut down by protestors, people scream freedom of speech and cry intolerance.
Black man get choked to death by a cop for selling loose cigs and those same people are no where to be found.
I posted the Eric Garner story on my facebook and it was completely ignored by my family. Those same people are up in a rage about this man being silenced.
This is what America is now. It's as Black and White as it always has been, just people are better at hiding it.
Black man get choked to death by a cop for selling loose cigs and those same people are no where to be found.
I posted the Eric Garner story on my facebook and it was completely ignored by my family. Those same people are up in a rage about this man being silenced.
This is what America is now. It's as Black and White as it always has been, just people are better at hiding it.
What about the American Civil Liberties Union on this issue? https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus
Should we start disagreeing with this?
Berkley's college Republican group must have made enough money at their affirmative action bake sale to afford him
Frozenprince
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everyday math
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Scroll down. He was just trying to start shit.
Nothing in that link has anything to do with people protesting hate speech though? Seems unlikely that the ACLU would be against the protests.
It also says nothing about forcing people to listen. So I'm not sure why you thought that link was an appropriate response to the person you quoted.
Frozenprince
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Dollars to dimes he was an alt of an already banned account.
the university did not ban him from speaking
Well... he said the 1st doesn't mean "we must tolerate hateful rhetoric." The ACLU page addresses that in questions:
"Q: I just can't understand why the ACLU defends free speech for racists, sexists, homophobes and other bigots. Why tolerate the promotion of intolerance? "
and the answer to:
"Q: But don't speech codes send a strong message to campus bigots, telling them their views are unacceptable? "
It seemed relevant, but neither the person I responded to nor I said anything about "forcing people to listen."
Ought only the university admin adhere to the principle in question?
The philosophy behind it strikes me as being applicable to this situation.
Just gonna leave this truth bomb here
I cannot possibly love this man any more
Guess who actually burned books. Fascists. And they will get more power if Milo has his way.
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