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Poll: High Rates Of U.S. College Students Support Violence, Shouting To Stop Free Speech
The Federalist ^
| September 22, 2017
| Joy Pullmann
Posted on 09/22/2017 8:41:10 AM PDT by Mafe
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To: Mafe
Shouting is sometimes a legally acceptable response to free speech, but it is at best amoral and completely lacking in dignity. It also eliminates the exchange of ideas and guarantees your side will not convince the other side. Bonus: the shouters may be removed or even arrested for disturbing the peace.
As for those who believe violence is an acceptable response, they should keep in mind that decent people are also capable of applying force, and we are immeasurably better at it. We hold back on violence not because we are afraid of it but because we are circumspect in taking an action that will be permanent for the other side if we cross that line.
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posted on
09/22/2017 9:20:14 AM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: chimera
So failure, as us oldsters know it, is no longer a viable teaching tool.
So they’ll learn the hard way when they get out of their formal education bubble.
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posted on
09/22/2017 9:25:48 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: Mafe
No need to worry. Students always make up the majority of the brown shirts- under Hitler, Mao, Castro, Chavez... They are usually harmless except for petty vandalism. If the leftists in this country start forming armed militias, that is when it is time to worry.
To: Mafe
Communism is gaining ground in the US.
Has done so since the 60’s
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posted on
09/22/2017 9:58:12 AM PDT
by
353FMG
To: Mafe
Not surprising. Most of their parents get their money directly or indirectly from government spending. They comprise the political/regulator class.
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posted on
09/22/2017 10:09:34 AM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: Mafe
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posted on
09/22/2017 10:10:03 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
To: Mafe
I wonder if these snowflakes realize that peaceable assembly goes along with free speech in the First Amendment.
-PJ
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posted on
09/22/2017 10:15:03 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: robroys woman
Hopefully so. But sometimes I wonder. You've got CEOs and other senior executives being granted million-dollar bonuses and other golden parachutes when they run companies into the ground, just so the Board can get rid of them. In the lower ranks, like myself for many years, if we failed at a major task we were usually given the gate. No participation trophies for the soldiers in the trenches who get the blame, rightly or wrongly, for failure.
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posted on
09/22/2017 10:16:24 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: Mafe
Little snowflakes haven’t been in a fight. They will have some rough times.
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posted on
09/22/2017 10:40:25 AM PDT
by
buffaloguy
(Bond arms Cowbot)
To: Mafe
Another valid reason not to employee these scumbags....and another reason to use worker visas.
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posted on
09/22/2017 10:56:24 AM PDT
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
To: Mafe
Help me understand this, college students - creampuffs - want “safe places” because of, what they consider, hate speech and yet they support VIOLENCE to stop it? I think they need to define what they call violence. Cowardly dressing in a sack and wearing a mask while attacking a window with a baseball bat is NOT violence. That is a temper tantrum.
To: Mafe
if one in five think violence is an appropriate response to free thought, they will probably beat their children to death the first time the child refuses to go to bed.
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posted on
09/22/2017 2:45:54 PM PDT
by
blueplum
( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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