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To: Republicans 2016 2020

Most older people including Dems and independents don’t like seeing these sorts of disruptions on college campuses so this should favor Republicans in the fall. Personally I have mixed feelings. The First Amendment guarantees free speech and has been under attack recently. I certainly didn’t like it when these colleges shut down conservative speakers because that too obviously violated the First Amendment. But now we are cheering for the same thing when it’s done to the Left. As long as these university protests remained peaceful I think they were better off leaving them alone. Only when violence emerged like with what happened at UCLA last night should the cops be called in.


11 posted on 05/01/2024 1:02:41 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

peaceful? come out from under your rock ...


13 posted on 05/01/2024 1:16:23 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: jimwatx

There is no moral or ethical equivalency between conservative speakers a dressing a rented auditorium full of willing listeners, and people squatting in public on campus grounds for days screaming at Jews, and trashing the grounds.


19 posted on 05/01/2024 2:32:14 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: jimwatx

It isn’t the same thing... they aren’t being arrested for giving speeches, they are being arrested for trespassing and disorderly conduct, etc.


21 posted on 05/01/2024 2:41:05 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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