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Ann Coulter threatened out of University of Ottawa (pg. 2)
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
You don't get it. The way to deal with objectionable positions is to debate them and expose their flaws, not to drown them out with protest and fire alarms. By shutting the show down they just ensured more people would listen to her and they lost the credibility to actually debunk her rhetoric. |
fair enough - but my point was - the majority of students DID NOT want to hear/see her speak
maybe she should reschedule elsewhere? |
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| jester |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
fair enough - but my point was - the majority of students DID NOT want to hear/see her speak
maybe she should reschedule elsewhere? |
Someone on I think Huffington Post one of the student bodies paid like C$10K to have her speak.
So I guess any school or organization in Canada that wants her has to pay.
I am just surprised that no one out in Alberta wanted her to speak lol |
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| TheDemon |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
she was not welcome, they didn't want to see her, what's the problem?
would it been better if they proceeded with her meeting and barricated the hall? |
+1
She's not welcomed anywhere, even in the U.S |
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| TheDemon |
| quote: | Originally posted by jester
I was hoping if they let her speak, someone would have tossed a shoe at her :haha: |
Hey who knows, she might have taken off her shoe and tossed it badk! lol |
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| TheDemon |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
fair enough - but my point was - the majority of students DID NOT want to hear/see her speak
maybe she should reschedule elsewhere? |
Possibly in the dessert of Afghanistan? Since its empty there is no one there that would have to hear her ! |
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| TheDemon |
| Her youtube videos are a joke! |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by TheDemon
Hey who knows, she might have taken off her shoe and tossed it badk! lol |
tee-hee :) |
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| mute79 |
i think the disturbing thing was that she was silenced by students! i hope this isn't a start of a new trend where people will stop voicing their opinions for fear of reprisal..
even though i think of her as a neo-con mouthpiece, everyone's a loser when she's barred from speaking |
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| hardcore trancer |
| That is awesome news.:) nothing good can possibly come out of her filthy mouth anyways. She can go to Iraq and give her speaches there.:o |
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| Moral Hazard |
| it's funny how so many "progressives" want to silence the opposition. Progression needs opposition. |
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| spitty |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
I disagree with a lot of Coulter's politics; however, these types of tactics employed to silence someone are; a) unacceptable in a free and open society, and b) entirely counter-productive as they simply give her a greater platform. |
i realise i am only garnering information from this article, but no where did it say she was threatened. They started a chant (ooooh scary) and got into arguments with Coulter supporters. There was no violence, and only ten officers were called for a so called threatening body of 2000 angry twenty year olds??
Sounds like shutting her down was more the publicity stunt than bringing her here. I am mean, how hard would it have been to move 100 students or sneak her into a back way. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by spitty
i realise i am only garnering information from this article, but no where did it say she was threatened. They started a chant (ooooh scary) and got into arguments with Coulter supporters. There was no violence, and only ten officers were called for a so called threatening body of 2000 angry twenty year olds??
Sounds like shutting her down was more the publicity stunt than bringing her here. I am mean, how hard would it have been to move 100 students or sneak her into a back way. |
Other articles suggested there were threats and that the police "could no longer guarentee her safety" |
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