Ironic....those that shout about the footprint we're leaving on the world are sending up billows of black polluting smoke! Who knows what is actually burning, but black smoke is not good!
Free speech.... not at that campus!
How does burning stuff, and breaking glass windows, etc., help any situation? So you disagree with someone, a speaker, combat that by having a speaker with YOUR VIEWS come have a venue. It doesn't make sense to me.
Think I'll hibernate or hope whatever planet I'm from, my people come back for me.
why does it do this :
conservative ********* journalist Milo
Personally I am sick of the hate garbage. Everyday people of color live with the fear of being killed. Everyday people who are different such as gay live in fear.
What is the matter with this country? Why are people so hateful?
What are people going to think of us in the future? Like in the 1930's people risked all to help those that were being persecuted. I am so sick of the ugly talk against others. Just grrrr!
My business is within that area. I will be leaving soon to see if there is damage.
BPD has a twitter feed and they posted/continually updated where the protesters were and what streets they were moving to.
Why would you punish UC Berkeley for the actions of some protesters? UC Berkeley scheduled the appearance in the name of free speech facing what they knew would be an enormous backlash.
Flawed logic. So obvious! Bad!
Why would you punish UC Berkeley for the actions of some protesters? UC Berkeley scheduled the appearance in the name of free speech facing what they knew would be an enormous backlash.
Flawed logic. So obvious! Bad!
One student told CNN that he didn't agree with what happened.
"It's a sad irony in the fact that the Free Speech Movement was founded here and tonight, someone's free speech got shut down. It might have been hateful speech, but it's still his right to speak," said Shivam Patel, a freshmen who stood outside of Sproul Plaza.
The Free Speech Movement started at UC Berkeley in 1964 after students protested en masse when administrators tried to restrict their political activities on campus.
Patel said he supported peaceful protests, but disagreed with the way things turned out on Wednesday.
"It allows people on the right to say, 'Look at all these liberal Berkeley snowflakes. They're intolerant of speech.' I don't think it's productive at all. It does nothing to help this country."