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tenderfoot

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12. And even if you don't like either of them (who does, really), rioting wasn't a good look.
Sat Oct 30, 2021, 05:02 PM
Oct 2021

Rioting?

Oh you mean the "riot" where the cop pepper sprayed kids sitting on the ground because he could?



Rioting!

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Brain-washed morons hlthe2b Oct 2021 #1
Sooooooo they weren't really serious about the importance of civil discourse?? aeromanKC Oct 2021 #2
Obviously not. Igel Oct 2021 #14
"We label anyone Diamond_Dog Oct 2021 #3
We've allowed this on our side for ages Sympthsical Oct 2021 #4
1,000,000 percent correct! jimfields33 Oct 2021 #6
Agreed! ProfessorGAC Oct 2021 #8
Yes, it's horrible when people protest great scholars like Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter tenderfoot Oct 2021 #9
They were not the only speakers Sympthsical Oct 2021 #11
And even if you don't like either of them (who does, really), rioting wasn't a good look. tenderfoot Oct 2021 #12
The FIRE database lists a number of event disruptions but no official disinvitations greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #15
They might be thinking of Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins. Dr. Strange Oct 2021 #16
That's pretty much what the FIRE database, which seems fairly expansive in its views, suggests greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #17
Maher and Dawkins were two I was thinking of. Also Horowitz and Shapiro. Sympthsical Oct 2021 #18
Neither Maher nor Dawkins were disinvited from speaking at UC Berkeley greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #19
I'm discussing the atmosphere of anti-speech Sympthsical Oct 2021 #20
Maher was not disinvited greenjar_01 Oct 2021 #21
It's a distinction without a difference Sympthsical Oct 2021 #22
Will FoxNoise pitch a fit about "Cancel Culture" over this? 11 Bravo Oct 2021 #5
their loss.....morans..... bahboo Oct 2021 #7
I was in law school there when Sarah Weddington, Roe v. Wade, spoke. mentalsolstice Oct 2021 #10
Nothing Samford University does would be unifying. LiberalFighter Oct 2021 #13
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