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For those who cannot understand how people could vote for someone like Trump who speaks bluntly, watch this video which explains how free speech is under violent attack. Trump's popularity is in part a reaction to this. Trump voters consider his blunt speech to be a lesser evil than, or positive response to, liberal violence, and violent rhetoric. They see liberal logic as being twisted to the point of being insane and prefer Trump's style of plain speaking.
The distinction between speech and violence was a pivotal point in the development of civilization and it allows us to live in a society of law and order and safety. Many liberals who are ignorant of this believe that reversion to an uncivilized social order, where violence is an acceptable reaction to ideas they disagree with, is progress.
Read about it here:
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/0...-argument-against-free-speech-to-smithereens/
The distinction between speech and violence was a pivotal point in the development of civilization and it allows us to live in a society of law and order and safety. Many liberals who are ignorant of this believe that reversion to an uncivilized social order, where violence is an acceptable reaction to ideas they disagree with, is progress.
Read about it here:
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/0...-argument-against-free-speech-to-smithereens/
"Words you don't like deserve to be fought physically," the Daily Wire editor explained. "When I spoke at California State University LA, one professor threatened students who sponsored me by offering to fight them. He then posted a slogan on the door of his office stating, 'The best response to microaggression is macroaggression.'"
Along these lines, "protesters have all too often engage in physically violent disruption when they believe their identity group is under verbal attack by someone, usually conservative but not always."
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The notorious riots and violence at Middlebury College, UC Berkeley, and assaults on conservative students on campuses across America back up Shapiro's words.
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"Free speech is under assault because of a three-step argument made by advocates and justifiers of violence," Shapiro declared in his opening remarks. "The first step is they say that the validity or invalidity of an argument can be judged solely by the ethnic, sexual, racial, or cultural identity of the person making the argument."
This "intersectionality" argument — that society structurally oppresses people of ethnic, sexual, racial, or cultural identities and therefore only those who have been oppressed can speak about certain issues — is the ground of the "microaggression" culture stifling speech on campuses, the Daily Wire editor argued.
"The second step is they claim that those who say otherwise are engaged in what they call verbal violence," Sharipo added. "The final step is that they conclude that physical violence is sometimes justified in order to stop such verbal abuse."
In order to understand how college campuses shut down speech — often but not always conservative speech — Americans must understand the philosophy of "intersectionality." Shapiro argued that this philosophy dominates college campuses and "a large segment of today's Democratic Party."
Intersectionality "suggests that straight white Americans are inherently the beneficiaries of white privilege and therefore cannot speak on certain policies, since they have not experienced what it's like to be black or hispanic or gay or transgender or a woman."
This philosophy, Shapiro declared, "ranks the value of a view not based on the logic or merit of the view but on the level of victimization in American society experienced by the person espousing the view." An LGBT black woman is automatically considered more correct than a straight white male, before any speech exits either of their mouths.
"The next step is obvious: If a straight white male, or anyone else who ranks lower on the victimhood scale, says something contrary to the viewpoint of the higher ranking intersectionality identity, that person has engaged in a microaggression," the editor declared.
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The notorious riots and violence at Middlebury College, UC Berkeley, and assaults on conservative students on campuses across America back up Shapiro's words.
Last year, UC Berkeley students physically blocked white people from using a bridge.
Shapiro himself was physically blocked from speaking at the University of Wisconsin Madison last November when protesters stood on the stage to keep him from standing on it. Last week, UC Berkeley canceled a Shapiro speech scheduled for September on the grounds that the administration could not find a venue.
"Not only do some administrators look the other way ... actual crimes were committed and almost nobody has been arrested," Shapiro lamented.
He expressly condemned the "Heckler's veto" on free speech. This is "the notion that if you are physically violent enough, you can get administrators cow tow to you, to bow before you by canceling an event you disagree with altogether."
Along these lines, "protesters have all too often engage in physically violent disruption when they believe their identity group is under verbal attack by someone, usually conservative but not always."
...
The notorious riots and violence at Middlebury College, UC Berkeley, and assaults on conservative students on campuses across America back up Shapiro's words.
...
"Free speech is under assault because of a three-step argument made by advocates and justifiers of violence," Shapiro declared in his opening remarks. "The first step is they say that the validity or invalidity of an argument can be judged solely by the ethnic, sexual, racial, or cultural identity of the person making the argument."
This "intersectionality" argument — that society structurally oppresses people of ethnic, sexual, racial, or cultural identities and therefore only those who have been oppressed can speak about certain issues — is the ground of the "microaggression" culture stifling speech on campuses, the Daily Wire editor argued.
"The second step is they claim that those who say otherwise are engaged in what they call verbal violence," Sharipo added. "The final step is that they conclude that physical violence is sometimes justified in order to stop such verbal abuse."
In order to understand how college campuses shut down speech — often but not always conservative speech — Americans must understand the philosophy of "intersectionality." Shapiro argued that this philosophy dominates college campuses and "a large segment of today's Democratic Party."
Intersectionality "suggests that straight white Americans are inherently the beneficiaries of white privilege and therefore cannot speak on certain policies, since they have not experienced what it's like to be black or hispanic or gay or transgender or a woman."
This philosophy, Shapiro declared, "ranks the value of a view not based on the logic or merit of the view but on the level of victimization in American society experienced by the person espousing the view." An LGBT black woman is automatically considered more correct than a straight white male, before any speech exits either of their mouths.
"The next step is obvious: If a straight white male, or anyone else who ranks lower on the victimhood scale, says something contrary to the viewpoint of the higher ranking intersectionality identity, that person has engaged in a microaggression," the editor declared.
...
The notorious riots and violence at Middlebury College, UC Berkeley, and assaults on conservative students on campuses across America back up Shapiro's words.
Last year, UC Berkeley students physically blocked white people from using a bridge.
Shapiro himself was physically blocked from speaking at the University of Wisconsin Madison last November when protesters stood on the stage to keep him from standing on it. Last week, UC Berkeley canceled a Shapiro speech scheduled for September on the grounds that the administration could not find a venue.
"Not only do some administrators look the other way ... actual crimes were committed and almost nobody has been arrested," Shapiro lamented.
He expressly condemned the "Heckler's veto" on free speech. This is "the notion that if you are physically violent enough, you can get administrators cow tow to you, to bow before you by canceling an event you disagree with altogether."
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