Hey! whatever happened to Ansell?

Kathy Griffin...banned for life. Fox News.. applauded for exercising their free speech.
This is why people hate liberals. They're losers and capitulate on everything.

#3, to be fair, kathy griffin is a fucking moron, and should have expected the reaction she got.

oops, #2.

@3 well sure, easy for you to say, feel free to take your own show on the road.

Welcome to the internet, K-Y Taylor. Fucking everyone with an opinion will get a death threat on the internet, not just overwrought social justice warriors (like you) or right wing trolls (like Milo Y.). Put your big girl pants on and do your tour. I'm sure you'll at least get better protection from the security at the venues than Milo Y. or Charles Murray got.

@4: so far the count at Milo events is 1 Antifa protestor shot by a RW Fucktard trying to end a Pepper Spray assault, 0 RW Fucktards shot by Antifa. did i miss something?

Fox is distracting from their President's collusion and incompetence, and they DGAF if someone gets hurt. You'd think the Murdoch boys would put a lid on it until they get Sky.

"@4: so far the count at Milo events is 1 Antifa protestor shot by a RW Fucktard trying to end a Pepper Spray assault, 0 RW Fucktards shot by Antifa. did i miss something?"

Yeah. There was Milo getting punched - on stage - at DePaul University while the security detail he had to pay for stood there and literally did nothing. There was Charles Murray and Allison Stanger getting chased out of Middlebury by an angry mob (you DID hear about that, didn't you, Max?).

If you think K-Y Taylor is going to have these problems at any of her venues, you're delusional. What's the most hostile crowd she imagines she'll be speaking to? Is she going to Liberty College? VFW halls? The John Birch Society? Or that there will be fascist murders mixing in with the overwhelmingly friendly crowds she intends to virtue signal to on her tour? Doubt that.

I'm looking through the news of angry right wing students shutting down woke activist speakers at college venues, but gosh, just can't seem to find any examples. Must be a Fox News conspiracy, huh?

And before the angry internet woke left starts chiming in, no - I don't believe any private institution owes anyone a platform to speak. But in public places, like publically funded universities, they absolutely are obligated to protect free speech.

And people need to either shit or get off the pot when it comes to whether or not they believe in free speech (not just the First Amendment, but free speech itself). "I believe in free speech, but ... " means you absolutely do not believe in free speech. If you support the heckler's veto over "the enemy" while not supporting it for "my side", you absolutely do not believe in free speech. If you think free speech only protects nice things that people want to hear, you absolutely do not believe in free speech. If you want to use denial of free speech as a weapon, you obviously do not believe in free speech.

One of the only places the left has real institutional power is in academia, and in a depressing fashion, many are starting to use that power to shut down speech. Universities are sacrificing the benefits of free speech in favor of the moral purity of intersectional woke bullshit. This is a long term mistake on many levels, but that's another story.

If someone does not believe in free speech, they need to just comes out and say so, and be ready to defend that position. Is that so hard?

@10:

The difference of course being that, as a general rule hate-rage fueled right wingers don't attack in open groups, mainly because they tend to be outnumbered in such situations. Instead, they seem to prefer more, shall we say individual expressions of mass violence.

Unfortunately, there are those on BOTH the left and right and at every nutty point in between who make death threats, who spew awful rhetoric.

The words from this author/speaker's address were hateful -- implying that anyone who does not think like she and her friends do must be ignorant and uneducated is every bit as much "hate speech" as implying all those whose ethnic background does not math theirs is ignorant and uneducated, as were any threats she received.

This is the state of rhetoric today. This is what social media has helped to create.

"This is the state of rhetoric today. This is what social media has helped to create. "

This was the state of progressive rhetoric when I was in high school in 1986l. Any difference in opinion must be due to stupidity or malice because, hey, what other reasons could there possibly be? The advance of social media and about 30 years of academia metastasizing French postmodernism have given us what you're seeing today.

That this is suicide for the actual political goals of the genuine left has yet to be appreciated. In another 15 years when people are wondering why the left has less political influence than the Royal Society of Rabbit Breeders, we'll look back on woke academic figures and intersectional jargon and laugh (or cry, depending on your sympathies).

I believe Professor Taylor is what the crazy right calls a snowflake. If 'I remain undaunted in my commitment' includes retreating to her safe space because of threatening, no doubt anonymous emails, and a fear of speaking at Town Hall in Seattle, she might want to revisit that statement.