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comment by bioemerl
bioemerl  ·  2610 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Does Trump Want Universities to Be Militarized Surveillance States?

Does anyone here seriously believe that trump took the time to understand the full situation?

He sees "University cancels speech' and reacts with "well, if you are going to cancel, what if we started pulling your funds?" If he did see that the university did their best to allow the speech to happen, he is likely going to say that the threat of funds withdraw is to force the university and local towns to ramp up security and ensure that these protests are able to shut down people's ability to give talks. I can't see that as a huge deal.

Should universities sit by and "defend" free speech in theory while allowing rioters to go unchecked? Not at all. We shouldn't have violent protesters shutting down speeches in the US, anywhere. Whatever it takes to reach that goal is perfectly justified, because the threat of violence becoming a valid tactic of silencing one's opponents in open debate are far worse than universities having more security.

How does a bunch of people organizing violent protest in order to shut down a speech result in people saying that trump is the threat to democracy?





oyster  ·  2610 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Whatever it takes to reach that goal is perfectly justified

You have a very small imagination then.