Recent Comments by yaroslavvb

jwray -- it's an issue of freedom of speech at universities rather than First Amendment which has to do with government restrictions on speech. If a university group prevents you from giving a speech by storming the stage and being noisy to the extent of making your words impossible to make out, they are essentially imposing a form of censorship

written by yaroslavvb | 1 week 2 days ago | CH

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Minuteman Runs Away From Chicano Girl

blankfist -- "give me your tired..." was written before welfare. Nowdays, US is attracting a lot of freeloaders. I have some experience with large communities of religious Ukranians/Russians that came here using lax religious freedom laws. Many of them don't speak English, don't work and have lots of children which qualifies them to extra bonuses in welfare. Did carvers of the statue really wants *those* tired masses?

written by yaroslavvb | 1 week 5 days ago | CH

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Minuteman Runs Away From Chicano Girl

Funny, she says "we didn't try to ban them from speaking" (so it's not freedom of speech issue), as if preventing him from speaking by storming the stage is somehow better.

This reminds me of university student mobs described on Pinker's "Blank Slate." One biology researcher (Herrnstein) was misquoted in pro-racist literature and then found that he could no longer speak about his research specialty, learning in pigeons, because wherever he went the lecture halls were filled with chanting mobs.

Even Ahmadinejad was able to give his speech uninterrupted at Columbia university, is this guy so much worse?

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