Meme & Quote Thread

[BedellBrave]

 

[BedellBrave]

 

[BedellBrave]

 

[cajunrevenge]

You know how I know this is fake news?

 

[cajunrevenge]

Probably should be more worried about Shananay over there gearing up for a cavity search.

 

[sturg33]

Exactly. Students and faculty displayed "overwhelming opposition" when the speaker was invited. So what? That's no reason to cancel the event. If anything, it's a reason to promote it. That overwhelming opposition doesn't excuse their behavior, either.

Setting things on fire in response to having to hear someone you disagree with. Actually, scratch the "have to." You could no go and keep living your life. Ridiculous.

BTW, this is the kind of **** that goes on at universities and yet many folks want taxpayers to subsidize so it's "free" for everyone. No thanks.

Notice you don't get much of a response here... just posts of Trump tweets to somehow justify it I guess

 

[goldfly]

You know how I know this is fake news?

the bodies of water are rooting for the Falcons as opposed to the land?

 

[cajunrevenge]

the bodies of water are rooting for the Falcons as opposed to the land?

It has Louisiana rooting for the Falcons. The only thing less popular in Louisiana is free black people.

 

[cajunrevenge]

 

[Metaphysicist]

 

[sturg33]

 

[sturg33]

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[thethe]

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These are paid armies by Soros.

 

[Julio3000]

These are paid armies by Soros.

You care to show any evidence of this, or does repeating it enough times just make it true?

 

[thethe]

You care to show any evidence of this, or does repeating it enough times just make it true?

I'll take the latter sir.

 

[BedellBrave]

Was it C. S. Lewis who said, "the new fascists will be the anti-fascists"?

 

[Julio3000]

Regardless of this counter-narrative, opposition to Trump is largely taking place legally and non-violently within the public sphere. That's to say nothing of the courts, which would seem to be the very definition of the rule of law.

 

[BedellBrave]

 

[BedellBrave]

Make sure you bring your paddle:

 

[jpx7]

Notice you don't get much of a response here... just posts of Trump tweets to somehow justify it I guess

I think "you don't get much of a response here" because we've gone round and round on this issue so. many. times. I think most around here are in agreement that this sort of speech-policing is bad, even if the speech being policed is also bad, or coming from bad people. I understand the argument that these students don't want their tuition and student-fees funding people they feel to be evil, but I think forcing universities to cancel speakers' events is both philosophically, pedagogically, and practically misguided.

In the case of the former two, universities should be about exposing students to more, not less, of the universe; and then challenging them to argue cogently for or against those philosophies and policies with which they find an affinity, or which they find deficient. In the case of the latter, protesting these speakers convince few who weren't already convinced, and—especially if the protests turn violent—cedes a sort of moral high-ground to folks who don't deserve or are (like Milo Yiannopoulos) morally bankrupt.