Thursday, October 19, 2017

Panel on ‘civil discourse’ shut down by uncivil protesters

Panel on ‘civil discourse’ shut down by uncivil protesters

Of course it was. They only want their voice heard. "Andrew Litt, a recent graduate of UCLA School of Law who was in attendance, told Campus Reform that “this heckler’s veto behavior is reprehensible by any standard. “It is literally the antithesis of productive discussion about freedom of speech in the United States,” Litt added. “Aside from disrupting a lawful assembly and interfering with participants’ educational opportunities, these disruptors’ behavior is immature and is by no means a form of persuasive protest.” Similarly, the school’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter strongly condemned the protests, calling them “ironic in the extreme” due to the intended theme of the event. “It turned disturbingly uncivil when protesters shouted over speakers, blocked aisles, and disrupted the event to the point where the remnants of the event were moved to another room,” UCLA YAF Chair Thea Dunlevie told Campus Reform, saying the student protesters “demonstrated that they disdain discussion, they discourage conversation, and they reject dialogue.” “Fascists tend to shut down free speech, just like Refuse Fascism who only allowed their speech to be heard,” she added. “Refuse Fascism’s protests derailed productive conversation about actual history for political gain regarding hyperbolic claims about today’s politics. Let’s have a conversation, not a shouting match.”"

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