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The fine folks over at The Tennessean bring us this interesting bit of news:
Inspired by a Breitbart News editor whose speeches have spurred protests at colleges across the country, state lawmakers on Thursday touted a bill that they said would protect free speech on Tennessee campuses.
While discussing the bill in a news conference, sponsors Rep. Martin Daniel and Sen. Joey Hensley referenced the protests against controversial conservative Milo Yiannopoulos, who is a senior editor at Breitbart. Violence erupted at a protest against a planned Yiannopoulos speech at the University of California, Berkeley, prompting officials there to cancel the speech. The lawmakers indicated that the violence had hampered the expression of conservative ideas at Berkeley. Similar issues have cropped up in Tennessee, they said.
Daniel, R-Knoxville, called his legislation "the Milo bill," and said it was "designed to implement oversight of administrators' handling of free speech issues."
Hensley, R-Hohenwald, said the bill was specifically tailored to defend students with conservative views that he said had been silenced in the past.
"We've heard stories from many students that are honestly on the conservative side that have those issues stifled in the classroom," Hensley said. "We just want to ensure our public universities allow all types of speech."
Glad to see my state getting this correct even though they can't pull their heads out of their asses about broadband competition.
[Ed. Note: The current bill has no summary on the Tennessee General Assembly site, but it is likely similar or identical to the previous year's version from the same sponsors which died in committee.]
(Score: 3, Informative) by https on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:01AM
There are quite a few ideas that don't qualify for the moniker "civil discourse". For example, Milo & crew's inference that being black means you deserve a premature and violent death is an idea that doesn't need free exchange - it needs a kick in the balls. With a baseball bat.
Suggesting such arguments are being shouted down because they are offensive (1) is false, and (2) and says a fuck of a lot about you.
Offended and laughing about it.
(Score: 5, Informative) by jmorris on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:17AM
Citation needed because I have watched the live stream of several of Milo's stops in his "Dangerous Faggot" tour and never seen anything that, in a sane world, would be all that objectionable. Trollish? Often. Intended to provoke a bit? Yes. Stand up comedy? Yes. Incitement to violence? No. Mostly what he is doing is what used to be called "Speaking truth to power." The Left wants to pretend, when it suits their purposes, that they are not "the Man" now, that plucky malcontents aren't going to now be poking their system to try to get a reaction in exactly the same way they themselves did a generation ago.
If you can't see that Cultural Marxism and "Intersectionality" doesn't have far more opportunity for ridicule and baiting than any old "sexually repressed" establishment authority figure in the '60s it only means you are the one getting laughed at. The modern university campus is what is called a "target rich environment" for people like Milo. And get used to it because he will become legion as it doesn't take much to duplicate what he has done.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:47AM
If you can't see that Cultural Marxism
Could some one please kick jmorris in the balls? It will probably be the closest to "sex" that he gets this decade! Maybe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @12:20PM
Silly fungus - you're jealous of the Morris!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @07:20AM
My god your reliance on buzz words is annoying! You have no original thoughts, just key phrases dropped by talk radio and promoted throughout the news cycle. They are manipulating you, manufacturing consensus by seeding specific words and phrases so that all your buddies say the same things and you go "omg this guy gets it too!". Sadly your both brainwashed pawns... Gj on being a sucker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @12:22PM
"My god your reliance on buzz words is annoying! You have no original thoughts, just key phrases dropped by talk radio and promoted throughout the news cycle. They are manipulating you, manufacturing consensus by seeding specific words and phrases so that all your buddies say the same things and you go "omg this guy gets it too!". Sadly your both brainwashed pawns... Gj on being a sucker."
That's EXACTLY what I told the annoying progressive who followed me around Walmart last weak.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:44PM
Even the AC who sticks up for jmorris can't come up with an original thought! "What you said, but in Wallymart!" It's almost too perfect of a setup, right down to the shopping venue, but I can't imagine someone sarcastically defending jmorris.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @01:01PM
never seen anything that, in a sane world, would be all that objectionable
He didn't get kicked off twitter for being a swell guy.
That's one of those statements that has everything to do with who you are and nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Half your posts on soylent are nothing more than animus directed at racial and sexual minorities.
Of course you wouldn't find any of it objectionable. You are too busy cheering him on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @09:11PM
He didn't get kicked off twitter for being a swell guy
Back on January 24, I submitted a thing about violent vigilantism.
It was "Accepted" but never made the front page.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday February 12 2017, @07:23AM
There are quite a few ideas that don't qualify for the moniker "civil discourse". For example, Milo & crew's inference that being black means you deserve a premature and violent death is an idea that doesn't need free exchange - it needs a kick in the balls. With a baseball bat.
What, specifically, are you saying should happen to such people? That people should use their own free speech to launch vicious insults at them? That people should use violence against them? That universities and other places shouldn't allow them to give speeches? I would agree with the first one but not the other two, since I value the concept of freedom of speech even if I think the speech is horrendous.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @10:04AM
What, specifically, are you saying should happen to such people?
That they should die in a fire? That they should die in a fire, with a red hot poker up their ass? I really have a hard time imagining the appropriate treatment for the alt-right racist idiots that have foisted Trump on the American people. But Chinese Buddhist afterlife porn is helpful! Dead, by a thousand cuts? Dead by being tied to a chimney and slowly roasting to death? Dead, by demons with phalluses with the most amazing innovations, not for your pleasure. Death by having the entire civilized world ridicule you, and your President, and his "Cabinet", and Kellyane and Ginger and Spicy, and their little dog too. Wait. Trump does not have a dog? Fuck, even G W Bush had a god-damned Whitehouse dog! What the hell is he doing? Grabbing Pussies in the Whitehouse? Well, we saw how well that worked out a couple of administrations ago.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 12 2017, @12:27PM
^ this ^
Whatever happened to the concept, "I despise what you're saying, but I'll defend your right to say it to the death if necessary."
Let's take televangelists for instance. I've never heard one, or even heard OF one, that I can respect. If/when I get trapped into listening to one for even a minute or two, I'm thinking, "Why don't you STFU you cretin?" At the very same time, if some left/dem/progressive/liberal/whatever attempted to silence the inane imbecile, I'd be far more "offended" than I am by the babbling fool himself.