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In reply to the discussion: So any speech by anyone must be allowed an audience and center stage at a [View all]maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)But even that has limits.
Cal is within their rights to cancel the speech over safety concerns. There WILL be confrontations between these Fascists and Antifa. That's what Antifa does, and bringing Rightists to speak at Berkeley is trying to land a beachhead at Ground Zero of Liberal America. Fuck that. No Thugs in Our House.
That tactic deserves a vehement response. It doesn't have to be violent; but that's what they're trying to provoke. Look at the shooting that took place on Univ of Washington's campus on Inauguration Day: a Rightist was pepper-spraying the protestors, and an Antifa member took the canister away, at which point the man's wife pulled out a gun and shot him point-blank "in self-defense", with riot police just yards away. Who walks away a hero of the right? The woman with the gun.
Solution: allow the Speech, put the College Republicans on the hook for increased security, including OT for the police.