Law students demand a ban on 'troubling' speech

[mystery-ak]

Law students demand a ban on 'troubling' speech
by Peter Van Voorhis | Mar 6, 2018, 6:22 PM

Nine different student groups at Lewis & Clark Law School wrote a letter calling for an end to free speech “when it has a negative and violent impact on other individuals,” especially when that speech is “fascism ... under the guise of ‘open debate’ and ‘free discourse.’”

The letter, which was signed by the school’s Young Democratic Socialists of America, the Women’s Law Caucus, and the Immigration Student Group, called on readers to “refuse fascism in all its forms.”

The letter cites specific cases on the Lewis & Clark campus, such as when “the Federalist Society found it necessary to unilaterally invite a known fascist to our campus to encourage what we believe to be an act of aggression and violence toward members of our society who experience racial and gendered oppression.”

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/law-students-demand-a-ban-on-troubling-speech/article/2650873

[Jazzhead]

Snowflakes.  Let 'em melt, and mop up the mess.

[XenaLee]

Law students demand a ban on 'troubling' speech
by Peter Van Voorhis | Mar 6, 2018, 6:22 PM

Nine different student groups at Lewis & Clark Law School wrote a letter calling for an end to free speech “when it has a negative and violent impact on other individuals,” especially when that speech is “fascism ... under the guise of ‘open debate’ and ‘free discourse.’”

The letter, which was signed by the school’s Young Democratic Socialists of America, the Women’s Law Caucus, and the Immigration Student Group, called on readers to “refuse fascism in all its forms.”

The letter cites specific cases on the Lewis & Clark campus, such as when “the Federalist Society found it necessary to unilaterally invite a known fascist to our campus to encourage what we believe to be an act of aggression and violence toward members of our society who experience racial and gendered oppression.”

more
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/law-students-demand-a-ban-on-troubling-speech/article/2650873

So.... they're gonna refuse themselves, then? 

[DB]

These idiots are too stupid to understand it is they who are the fascists.

It will come to blood if these people keep pushing to take our freedoms.

[WingNot]

Snowflakes.  Let 'em melt, and mop up the mess.

These are your babies.  Lawflakes.

[Free Vulcan]

Ah progressives....progressing backwards right to the middle ages of inquisitional tribunals for heresy.

[andy58-in-nh]

These idiots are too stupid to understand it is they who are the fascists.

It will come to blood if these people keep pushing to take our freedoms.

And that is precisely why they want to render their political opponents defenseless in all respects that are recognized by the 1st and 2nd Amendments.

Freedom of expression, assembly, petition, and armed self-defense are vital to the preservation of ordered liberty, as our Founders knew, both from their education and from terrible personal experience.

And so, in our time, Progressives have set about to redefine the plain meaning of words and control the common language, such that any expressed disagreement with them instantly becomes "hate speech", and its progenitors "Fascists", and thus presumptively evil. Progressives will, and in fact have already demanded the right to silence their opponents and will next insist upon the use of government force to protect their accredited "oppressed victim" constituencies.

The Democrat party has nearly given itself over fully to this authoritarian effort, and the Republicans, alternately bemused and beguiled by the Trumpian personality cult are unprepared for what is coming. And just to be clear: Trump is not the problem - he's not nearly as bad as his detractors make out, but he's also not perspicacious and informed enough to see what the Left is really up to. 

We need Churchill. We've got Hoover.