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GOP Secretary of State Melts Down When Asked To Explain Bid to Throw Biden Off Ballot
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We're seeing a lot of conservative action and behaviour on college campuses these days though. Go far enough to the liberal side and you end up standing right next to the conservatives!
GTFO with your both sides nonsense.
It's not both sides. What we're seeing is that it's human nature. It goes well past whatever your political beliefs are..
Go far enough to the right of them.
Or are you talking about the widely discredited Horseshoe Theory?
I'm talking about the banning of certain ideas and speech.
20 years ago when I was in university that was an entirely conservative ideal. Today we don't see that being the case..
What speech and ideas do you feel are being banned?
They're not being banned technically, they're being run off campus which amounts to the same. The congressional hearings covered some of this, it's not like I'm putting forward a new idea here. There's testimony of student groups having their spaces taken away.
So they aren’t banned or illegal?
I am curious to see some of your sources instead of your vague statements.
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https://pix11.com/news/israel-war/jewish-students-locked-inside-library-told-security-they-felt-unsafe/
This is one example of a few that have been in the news lately. Do you think that targeted group is going to continue to meet on campus?
They're being discouraged with extraordinary levels of animosity and as we're seeing before Congress and in various law suits, the institutions are not really doing anything to stop it. If you can't see that as tacitly approving the behaviour, then I guess you're one of those where the context is dependent.
Your link was twenty protesters making people feel unsafe and police attending and didn’t charge anyone.
Are the cops in on it too?
What are these things you’re vaguely mentioning about congress and lawsuits?
Vague?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/mcmaster-lawsuit-1.7074537
There's been a handful of similar ones filled recently. You're ignorance clearly extends beyond the news though.
Your attempts to belittle the violence faced by those kids is precisely the problem. Using violence in an attempt to mute voices you're scared of is pretty damn scary to be advocating for.
It doesn’t state the political affiliations of the Canadians in this article so how does this fit what you are saying?
They are being "ran off" because they no longer hold muster and they refuse to provide any new ideas. This is how the marketplace of ideas work. Their ideas failed and are being rejected because they are unserious. Now they are demanding these ideas which have failed to be inserted back into the academic space by force.
If only there were other opinions and ideas we could discuss implementing other than "liberalism" and "conservatism" but academics won't let other ideas replace those in the marketplace because the failures are refusing the leave the square and are threatening violence if they don't get their way.
Don't both sides this. They weren't banned. They weren't mobbed. They lost and refused to leave.
Are you serious? The marketplace of ideas is violently chasing people out of their designated meeting places?
That's censorship by violence. You're justifying this.
This is literally the problem I'm talking about and you're acting like it's the civilized way to engage in disparate ideas. That's fucked up. They're going to be inserted back into the academic space legally because it's unquestionably bigoted to target a protected class, even if you're claiming it's because you disagree with their ideas. That's just fucking wild.
You're literally defending a political camp whose supporters raided the capitol. They don't deserve to have their ideas on the marketplace because not only did they lose, their reaction to losing was to attempt the overthrow of the government. Blocking and reporting you, you dimwitted fascist.