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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]Kentonio
(4,377 posts)87. Exactly
It's high time we went back to convincing people to share our opinions by making the most compelling case, not by telling them to agree or else they're terrible people.
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So any speech by anyone must be allowed an audience and center stage at a [View all]
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
OP
Anybody? Could I form a group that promotes an agenda that is anti gay and gay marriage
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#13
What about anti gay groups, disguised as pro traditional marriage who would
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#20
You must have missed what happened when Milo Y. arrived -- $100,000 worth of physical damage
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#115
Yes, the Berkeley administration botched their response, and they're realizing that now.
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#118
Should they be allowed to book speakers BEFORE getting approval for a venue at the University?
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#104
Either anyone and everyone who could be invited must be allowed to speak
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#12
The world's most torturously mis-and over-used anti free speech metaphor.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#67
a metropolis as large as the east bay will fill a hall to see Coulter every time she wants to speak
maxsolomon
Apr 2017
#16
But the first amendment doesn't require the University to schedule a speaker for April 27 at night
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#31
Your post shows a fundamental lack of understanding regarding free speech jurisprudence.
SomethingNew
Apr 2017
#94
If they allow anyone, then they have an issue about not allowing some speakers.
onenote
Apr 2017
#60
If you don't grasp the intellectual argument here there's no reason to continue.
davsand
Apr 2017
#100
We're not dealing with *any* university, we're dealing with a state university.
X_Digger
Apr 2017
#102
People confuse the right to stand in the public square and having speech with
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#32
Not sure, if arrangements had already been made then maybe she'd be the wronged party here..
JHan
Apr 2017
#56
A University may not be the "public square" but they almost always have areas that are "designated
onenote
Apr 2017
#61
So any speech including an outline of how to exterminate all people with brown hair must
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
#29
Berkeley is not silencing her. They've offered her a venue for May 2nd in the afternoon
pnwmom
Apr 2017
#34
"After all, the next speaker they decide to silence might be one of ours."
beam me up scottie
Apr 2017
#85
You are under the mistaken impression that only speech in traditional public forums is protected
onenote
Apr 2017
#65
As the article points out, the First Amendment applies to designated public forums
onenote
Apr 2017
#108
Not necessarily. Still, Free Speech threads on DU are invariably depressing.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#66
Yep. The people who were arguing that blasphemy should be illegal because it might make someone mad.
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2017
#76
If they are invited. See, the thing is that by being so intolerant of right-wing
PatrickforO
Apr 2017
#70
No, but a legit univ group should be able to invite and listen to any guest speaker they wish
aikoaiko
Apr 2017
#86
There are more groups on the left than liberals; Almost anyone can be violent.
aikoaiko
Apr 2017
#99
It's simple. A state run university, hence organ of the state, cannot regulate protected speech...
X_Digger
Apr 2017
#101
I don't understand your point, for one! Nobody has a Constitutional "right" to speak in a college
WinkyDink
Apr 2017
#111
The state cannot regulate speech based on content, generally. That includes state institutions.
X_Digger
Apr 2017
#119
I think Coulter and more so Milo are professional shit stirrers and have no favor in my view.
PufPuf23
Apr 2017
#106
No. I only half kiddingly say I have gone to my local college for 44 years.
fleabiscuit
Apr 2017
#110