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[NEWS] Violent UC Berkeley riots force cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos event
Badspot:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on February 03, 2017, 03:43:19 AM ---I think your opinions on liberals are founded more on alt-right outrage videos than on reality.
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Ok. Are these videos making things up? Because usually it's just showing the exact source with context and reacting. The Sally Boynton Brown's speech is available in it's entirety, the more you see of it the worse it gets. It's not taken out of context. I went to a university you know, I saw this stuff forming. I actually got one of my professors to break down into a screaming fit because I refused to accept his moral relativism around female genital mutilation and loving communism. If I was 10 years younger I'd have cell phone video of it.
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on February 03, 2017, 03:43:19 AM ---There are dozens of millions of liberals in this country, and it's statistically impossible that there aren't radicals in a group that large.
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No doubt, but you've lost control of university administration, the mainstream news media, Hollywood, and the democratic party.
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on February 03, 2017, 03:43:19 AM ---Also, I looked into the stats on affirmative action, and a Gallup poll shows that 32% of white conservatives and 50% of white moderates support it.
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Sounds like a lot less than half the country. The only reason it's even that high is because: 1. The newspeak name "affirmative action" doesn't even describe what it is. If you called it "race testing" or "segregated admissions", support would plummet. 2. There's an implicit threat that if you don't agree you're a tribal. 3. White guilt perpetuated by the media.
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on February 03, 2017, 03:43:19 AM ---but notice that both Brown and the crowd are white
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Ah yes, look at those fine white people laughing in the background when she gives their fellow whites a good roasting.
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on February 03, 2017, 03:43:19 AM ---That's the difference between racism against a group in power, and racism against a group that's not.
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This right here is the problem. This isn't some far flung extremist view, it's the mainstream, it's you. Everyone on the left thinks this and it's the most tribal bullstuff I've ever heard. The homeless guy getting the stuff kicked out of him at a BLM protest is not "in power" just because his skin is white. White people do not get billions of free dollars just because they have vaguely the same skin color as Donald Annoying Orange. You can't just group people together by skin color and say they're all the same without being a tribal. It's bullstuff that you get to say this and go home feeling like the good guy. At least the trolls on /pol/ know they're being tribal.
I realize that paragraph is not going to convince you or even advance the discussion productively but I don't really care. I've heard this stuff too many times.
Badspot:
--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on February 03, 2017, 09:30:55 AM ---From inside the room where the speech was, before you get too roostery.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3syG9rWMAAyqHc?format=jpg&name=large
Even Breitbart sponsors that claim, saying the main focus of the presentation was "sanctuary campuses": http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2017/01/31/milo-horowitz-start-campaign-sanctuary-campuses/amp/
Multiple students were aware of this aspect of the presentation beforehand: http://www.sfgate.com/news/amp/UC-warns-campus-group-Yiannopoulos-event-could-10901517.php
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Great, so you're misrepresenting it then because informing people how to report crimes to the proper authorities is not the same as doxing individual students.
Side note: embedding twitter images directly like that doesn't seem to work. Rehost them on imgur or a similar site.
Trymos:
reason why i dont partake in political discussion:
Republicans: DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL AND STUPID I KNOW IM RIGHT AND THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY
Democrats: REPUBLICANS ARE EVIL AND STUPID AND I KNOW IM RIGHT AND THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY
im not even exaggerating that badly here, just get rid of the caps lock and boom it's accurate.
Corderlain:
When did Badspot get so based holy stuff
Nonnel:
I'd be interested in his political compass position