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Missouri Student VP: People Use First Amendment Rights To Create "Hostile" Atmosphere
MSNBC and Real Clear Politics ^ | November 10, 2015 | Thomas Roberts

Posted on 11/12/2015 11:44:45 AM PST by magellan

Brenda Smith-Lezama, vice president of the Missouri Students Association, appeared on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon to express her disdain at people using their First Amendment rights to create a "hostile" and "unsafe" learning environment. Smith-Lezama advocated for a safe space for "healing" rather than "experiencing a lot of hate."

"I personally am tired of hearing that first amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here," Smith-Lezama said on MSNBC. "I think that it's important for us to create that distinction and create a space where we can all learn from one another and start to create a place of healing rather than a place where we are experiencing a lot of hate like we have in the past."

Smith-Lezama said the treatment of a student journalist who was accosted on Monday should be a "teachable moment" for those who approach the protestors with "hostility."

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


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KEYWORDS: education; missouri; mizzou
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1 posted on 11/12/2015 11:44:45 AM PST by magellan
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To: magellan

This reads like satire.


2 posted on 11/12/2015 11:47:16 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: magellan
"hostile" = Different Opinion

"unsafe" = Refused to leave public area

3 posted on 11/12/2015 11:47:42 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: magellan

Stupid of this magnitude will eventually become fatal. She will eventually talk herself into a situation where she is in mortal danger, and then she will blame whitey, until the axe actually falls.


4 posted on 11/12/2015 11:47:50 AM PST by MortMan (I am offended by those who believe they have a right not to be offended.)
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To: magellan
Hmmm, Brenda Smith-Lezama, not guilty?

Miss Georgia Teen USA 2012 - Brenda Smith-Lezama, 2nd Runner Up

5 posted on 11/12/2015 11:50:01 AM PST by magellan
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To: magellan

Brenda, dear, consider why you’re permitted to say that without being shot by the government. You can have it either way but you can’t have it both ways.


6 posted on 11/12/2015 11:50:29 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: magellan

Brenda Smith-Lezama was completely destroyed by the comments on RCP site a couple of days ago when I looked. Didn’t need to add my 2 cents.


7 posted on 11/12/2015 11:51:16 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: magellan
Time to straighten things out once and for all!


8 posted on 11/12/2015 11:51:26 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: magellan

Perhaps the best way for these young skulls full of mush to find peace is a formal debate class. If you want to be a good debater you need to be able to listen to both sides of an issue, something woefully lacking in today’s “students”. Then you must be able to rationally analyze both sides, because you may be for “Idea A” in one debate, and the next debate you are against “Idea A”.

I learned this in high school 50 years ago. What is wrong with our education system that alleged college students haven’t learned this lesson already?

Stupid on parade.


9 posted on 11/12/2015 11:52:30 AM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: magellan

Maybe she would feel safer in Cuba or Venezuela or North Korea where politically incorrect speech can get you executed.


10 posted on 11/12/2015 11:52:55 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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Don’t like the First Amendment? Fine, I’m tired of hearing from you, Brenda.

Click.


11 posted on 11/12/2015 11:53:13 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

She’s saying her feelings trump the rights of others.
The feelings of others, though, are assumed to be based on “hate”, so they have no rights compared to hers.


12 posted on 11/12/2015 11:53:23 AM PST by tbw2
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To: MortMan

Brenda Smith-No Ma’am, (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood


13 posted on 11/12/2015 11:55:16 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: magellan

Free speech — to progressives — has always meant shouting down anyone they don’t agree with.


14 posted on 11/12/2015 11:55:51 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: magellan

Oh puhleeze...


15 posted on 11/12/2015 11:56:08 AM PST by Vendome (they arDon't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: magellan

16 posted on 11/12/2015 12:00:15 PM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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To: MortMan

A friend of mine posted something on another site where he said the movie “Idiocracy” started off as satire, but is now becoming more and more like a documentary.


17 posted on 11/12/2015 12:01:30 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Making harmless people defenseless, does not make dangerous people harmless)
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To: magellan

I'll shut up and listen to anything she has to say as long as she wears her swimsuit.

18 posted on 11/12/2015 12:05:05 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: magellan

America’s new generation of delicate hothouse babies.

Will we have to eqip every place they might visit with Safe Sanctuary rooms?

Will muslim terrorists be required to honor their requests for a Time Out whenever they sense aggression or dislike?

What a horrible life they have ahead of them.

How will they manage?

For the next 50, 60, or 70, years they will be beleagured by inconsiderate people making random statements and speaking their minds, walking where they want to go and making disturbing body noises.


19 posted on 11/12/2015 12:06:12 PM PST by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Much of the news lately does.
I’m having a real hard time reconciling the proliferation of bizarre news headlines with my real life experiences.
“Liberals” trampling free speech, threatening violence, getting officials fired, etc over ... not liking something petty?
Court-enforced compulsory facilitation of ... fractal genders?
A President addressing practical head-lopping genocide by doing ... nothing?
The strongest world force for morality and order and freedom is ... Russia?
The top Democratic candidate for the primaries is ... a Bolshevik?
The top Republican candidate for the primaries is ... Trump?

Is the Internet a portal to the Bizarro world?


20 posted on 11/12/2015 12:07:47 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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