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turbinetree

(24,688 posts)
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 01:48 PM Jan 2018

Richard Spencer Asks To Speak At Kent State On Anniversary Of Deadly Shooting

Source: Talking Points Memo

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The campus tour organizer for white nationalist Richard Spencer is making a bid for him to speak at Kent State University this spring on the anniversary of the shootings during a Vietnam war protest that killed four students.

A university spokesman confirmed Thursday that organizer Cameron Padgett has asked to rent space at Kent State’s Student Multicultural Center on May 4.

The university would only say that it’s reviewing the request, said Eric Mansfield, a Kent State spokesman.

Spencer, a leading figure in the white nationalist movement, has been barred by several schools from speaking on campus and has lawsuits pending against some.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/richard-spencer-kent-state-speaking-bid



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Richard Spencer Asks To Speak At Kent State On Anniversary Of Deadly Shooting (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2018 OP
Puke on this trash shenmue Jan 2018 #1
That jerk has no concept to what those deaths represents turbinetree Jan 2018 #4
Hell no! 🤬 Floyd R. Turbo Jan 2018 #2
Why? Is he hoping to start another one? Initech Jan 2018 #3
Because he is a jerk, and grandstanding is all he is about turbinetree Jan 2018 #5
And law$uits ...do not forget the schools he is suing lunasun Jan 2018 #10
Exactly. His terrorist group should be forced to go through metal detectors and kept inside lagomorph777 Jan 2018 #14
give him a closet... dhill926 Jan 2018 #6
Fine let him do it and give him and his 1/2 dozen of followers zero security Botany Jan 2018 #7
It's not his terrorist followers who need security; lagomorph777 Jan 2018 #15
Not Only No, but HELL NO!! lastlib Jan 2018 #8
Hell No Gothmog Jan 2018 #9
Might as well allow Spencer to piss on those dead students' graves. (nt) Paladin Jan 2018 #11
I was thinking the same thing Kristofer Bry Jan 2018 #13
I hope not my nephew goes there blueinredohio Jan 2018 #12
I am a Kent State alum Ohiogal Jan 2018 #16

turbinetree

(24,688 posts)
4. That jerk has no concept to what those deaths represents
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 01:57 PM
Jan 2018

they were not for nationalist racist and bigots

And if he thinks his group his trying to mirror the 1960's and 1970's it's not happening

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
15. It's not his terrorist followers who need security;
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 04:33 PM
Jan 2018

it's the any town or campus they descend upon. Fucking plague rats.

lastlib

(23,197 posts)
8. Not Only No, but HELL NO!!
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 02:20 PM
Jan 2018

FUCK SPENCER!! To let that Nazi Asswipe besmirch the memory of the Kent State dead and wounded would be the definition of sacrilege! NO!! I will fight it with my last breath!

 

Kristofer Bry

(175 posts)
13. I was thinking the same thing
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 03:38 PM
Jan 2018

It's kind of like renting out your church to a cult for their human sacrifices.

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