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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]moriah
(8,311 posts)... as it's now about them offering her a slot at a time she doesn't prefer (and probably always was), demonstrating that obviously yes the University believes they have the choice of who should be allowed to speak and when.
Bernie called out the people who used violence to stop free speech (violence is not protected free speech) and are giving the entire protest movement a bad name. I strongly suspect if they ever figure out who hss been stirring up violence amongst protesters we will find those groups have been infiltrated by outside agitators deliberately trying to make laws against protests be considered reasonable by the majority of the public.
Bernie's criticism of refusal to allow speech you disagree with as as "sign of intellectual weakness", though, rings true. And if we want the right for Bernie to speak at a public university in Arkansas where I live, letting Propaganda-Bot, Ann Edition, speak is probably a wise way to avoid hypocrisy. She can't demand a specific date or time, though.