In my book, “The Indispensable Right, I explore how vandalism and aggressive campus protests should not be treated as free speech but as proscribed conduct. College Fix has another example of this distinction today when a person trashed a Turning Point table on the campus of UC Berkeley.
The posting shows a possible student pouring tomato juice over the group’s fliers and posters. The display promoted an event with Chloe Cole and Harrison Tinsley, who are critics of gender transitioning.
The activist responds to objections from the volunteers by saying “Are you worried I’m going to stain your f**king signs as you lie to people, aw so sorry. I f**king tried to talk to you a**holes. Enjoy getting this stain out.”
Likewise, anti-Israeli protesters at the University of Minnesota occupied and reportedly trashed a university building. None of these acts are protected as free speech. They are conduct that violate either university rules or criminal law or both.
Much like shouting down speakers, these are actions that silence others or damage property. Trashing displays or silencing others is the antithesis of free speech.
Yet, universities often fail to take meaningful action against such actors.
At the University of California Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young, who physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display. Despite pleading guilty to criminal assault, she was not fired and received overwhelming support from the students and faculty. She was later honored as a model for women advocates.
At Hunter College in New York, Professor Shellyne Rodríguez was shown trashing a pro-life display of students.
She was captured on a videotape telling the students that “you’re not educating s–t […] This is f–king propaganda. What are you going to do, like, anti-trans next? This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”
Unlike the professor, the students remained calm and respectful. One even said “sorry” to the accusation that being pro-life was triggering for her students.
Rodríguez continued to rave, stating, “No you’re not — because you can’t even have a f–king baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this s–t the f–k out of here.” In an Instagram post, she is then shown trashing the table.
Hunter College, however, did not consider this unhinged attack to be sufficient to terminate Rodríguez.
It was only after she later chased reporters with a machete that the college fired Rodríguez. She was then hired by another college.
What is most striking about this video is the license that the activist claims in trashing the display in stating “I f**king tried to talk to you a**holes.” The notion is that, if you tell people with opposing views that they are wrong, you are then justified to take violent action. It is the license of rage and this video shows how many today do not like to admit that they like the rage. It is addictive. It gives you this sense of license to say and do things that you would not ordinarily say or do.
This activist has every right to protest this event at Berkeley. However, trashing a display is a criminal act that should be punished by the university if this is a student. It should also be pursued by police to deter such conduct in the future. Free speech is enhanced, not curtailed, when such conduct is barred on our campuses.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
* CD, Conduct Disorder. Transgenders are like anyone. They too must learn civil conduct. Unfortunately it’s being encouraged and can escalate into greater property damage, vandalism and other harm. It’s rampant and successfully has disrupted education which is the purpose. Destroy the others education is the purpose.
The core belief stems from envy. Envy is a destructive trait. It’s distinguished from Jealousy. Othello was jealous for what he loved while Iago envied and destroyed what Othello loved.
There’s no real information about the table being destroyed.
It’s conduct and not speech.
Get The Party Started!
The World is now fully Balkanized,
The Balkanization of the Russo-Ukrainian Oblast,
The Balkanization of the Palestinian Israeli Territory,
The Proxy Giants (USA, Russia, Iran, Israel, China, India, …) are in full supply position and the seasonal climate (Fall) is right.
We are “locked and loaded” (Ready for deployment)
The Stage is set. Showtime (WW.III) for the Deep State.
-☢️- GOT TACTICAL NUKES? -☢️-
Israeli Forces Attack Iran With “Precise Strikes On Military Targets” In Retaliatory Response
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-launches-retaliatory-attack-against-iran
brown shirts anyone
Plenty of Them – In every City & Town, They’re call; L.E.O., ADOS, ADSW, USAR, National Guard and the Naval Militia, …
Surrounding You at all times and ready to Go!
FIGMO (F⁎ck It, Got My Orders)
I am shocked by the activist’s behaviors. Prancing around like a 2 year old knowingly misbehaving is totally out of character. Usually progressive activists are thoughtful and respectful.
Hahahah
The Need for a New Political Vocabulary
“… There are no “left-wing” parties in the traditional meaning of the political left
The former left parties have joined the centrists, becoming pro-U.S. neoliberals. There is no counterpart on the old left to the new nationalist parties, except for Sara Wagenknecht’s party in East Germany. The “left” no longer exists in the way that it did when I was growing up in the 1950s.
Today’s Social Democratic and Labor parties are neither socialist nor pro-labor, but pro-austerity. The British Labour Party and German Social Democrats are no longer even anti-war, but support the wars against Russia and Palestinians, and have put their faith in neoliberal Thatcherite/Blairite Reaganomics and an economic break from Russia and China. …”
By: Michael Hudson ~ Saturday, July 6, 2024
https://michael-hudson.com/2024/07/the-need-for-a-new-political-vocabulary/
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Universities as Tentacles of the Police State
“… The invective “Communist” has been replaced by “anti-Semite,” and the renewal of police violence on campus has not yet led to a Kent State-style rifle barrage against protesters. But the common denominators are all here once again. A concerted effort has been organized to condemn and even to punish today’s nationwide student uprisings against the genocide occurring in Gaza and the West Bank. Just as the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) aimed to end the careers of progressive actors, directors, professors and State Department officials unsympathetic to Chiang Kai-Shek or sympathetic to the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1975, today’s version aims at ending what remains of academic freedom in the United States. …”
By: Michael Hudson ~ Monday, April 29, 2024
https://michael-hudson.com/2024/04/universities-as-tentacles-of-the-police-state/
^ delusional fruitcake ^
LOL … I’m Back – Can’t handle intellect, can you.
Intellect???
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
This is shockingly ignorant.
“New Political Vocabulary” means “I don’t like the names I’m being called so please change them to something nicer.” Idiot
Which of the Kent State protesters held a machete to the neck of his antagonist again?
* OT.
Signatures are being checked on ballots. They’re finding some that aren’t the same? SAME as what other signature? The signature from when you were 18 and now you’re 80?
That’s not the reason you sign it! You sign it because it’s a felony to vote if all the boxes don’t check and the signature says this is yours as testimony you were there! It’s not for identification.
The fraudulent PHOTO ID is supposed to the check, your residence in the county is a check. If they did that to me I’d get a notarized thumbprint!
Can’t even figure out how to run an election. Next time I sign a speeding ticket I’ll just tell the judge that’s not my signature.
In Colorado, the state keeps more than one signature on file. The voter office told me they get signatures off of tax forms, from banks and credit card companies. Everything is connected, it seems.
Thanks
There should be lawsuits re the Real ID.
You are wrong. The purpose of the signature is indeed to identify you. In fact in many states it’s the ONLY check on identity. In Dem-controlled states such as NY it’s ILLEGAL to ask a voter for photo ID. Literally the only thing preventing someone from voting in someone else’s name is the signature comparison. Your signature is compared to the one on file from your voter registration years ago. And since people’s signatures do change over time, poll workers have to give some slack, and therefore only challenge cases where there’s really no resemblance at all.