Free Speech Unmuted: Free Speech on Campus

The latest video podcast episode from Prof. Jane Bambauer and me.

You can watch on YouTube (see here for past episodes), or subscribe on any podcast platform. This series put together by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where I'll be starting as the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow on May 11.

Comments

[Eric (the OC tanker)]

The biggest issue with the 'free' speech movement is that the 'free speakers also want to be free from the consequences of such speech.

Personally, I don't give two _hits what any of the brain-dead things on those collage campuses have to say. I believe they have the common curtesy to drop the masks and scarves and take ownership of the 'concepts' of which they espouse.

[Frank Drackman]

I’d let them keep protesting. I don’t think the heavy stuff’s gonna come down for quite awhile. No Showers, No Soap, (OK, won’t bother the actual A-rabs) No Starbucks, No Door Dash, No Amazon, No Electricity, love to see these Woke Fucks trying to recharge their I-Phones with a Gilligan’s Island Style Coconut Pump, I think the sitch-you-asian will pretty much solve itself. Anne Frank died of Typhus, not Zyklon B.

Frank

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

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No Showers, No Soap, (OK, won’t bother the actual A-rabs)

These right-wing bigots are your target audience, your strongest defenders, and your most devoted fans, Volokh Conspirators . . . and the reason your journey off mainstream faculties starts in a week or so.

[Frank Drackman]

Unlike you, Revolting, I’ve actually been to A-rab Countries, worked in A-rab Countries, ridden in cabs driven by A-rabs (OK that was in Amurica) You know what they didn’t have in Saudi Arabia??(besides Jews, Blacks, Women Driving) Soap! or Toilet Paper (they really do wipe their asses with their left hands(jokes on them, does anyone in Amurica wipe with their Non-Dominant hand?) which may be why they usually smelled like dried Shit.
Seriously, tried to find some TP in Dhahran, might as well been looking for a Kosher Deli

Frank “New Alternative Fuel: Arabs”

[Sam Bankman-Fried]

Take a tip from Ashtray Babbitt’s badass Marine husband—always keep a spare little hottie around just in case something happens to the breeding wife.

[Frank Drackman]

Parkinsonian Joe Biden was doing that in 1972

[Krayt]

God damn Trump claiming there are outside agitators, using that as an excuse to send Nazis in with hundreds of zip ties and second floor assault vehic...

Oh, wait. Nevermnind.

[Jonathan Affleck]

The US Code seems to make neutrality with respect to genocide impossible. If a university provides a platform to a genocide supporter, it probably becomes liable under 28 U.S. Code § 1350 - Alien’s action for tort. In addition, the university would probably be culpable under 18 U.S. Code § 1091 - Genocide. If the State of Israel is perpetrating genocide, a US university has to purge itself of all Zionists and must refuse contributions from a Zionist.

[VinniUSMC]

The universe has a duty to be purged of lying Nazi assholes like "Affleck".

[Frank Drackman]

Things have a way of working out for bad people

[Dr. Ed 2]

Note to self: Always log in. Then you don't have to read the garbage...

[Intelligent Mr Toad]

Somewhat off-topic:d DONALD TRUMP FINALLY SAYS SOMETHING I AGREE WITH

An article in The Hill quotes Trump, being interviewed on FOX:

“I really think you have a lot of paid agitators, professional agitators in here too, and I see it all over,” he said. “You know, when you see signs and they’re all identical. That means they’re being paid by a source.” [Hmmm! Sounds like he’s speaking from personal experience hiring astroturf-type demonstrators.]

“You know, these aren’t hand-painted signs where people would go to their basement and paint something because they really believed that. These are all signs that are identical that made by the same printer,” he continued. “And you know, when you see that that means there’s somebody at the top that’s paying, or a group that’s paying, and they’re doing a great disservice to the world, but they’re doing a great disservice to our country.”

Yes. I noticed something similar way back in the year 2000 (Y2K) when the recounting began: suddenly the areas around the counting-places were flooded with unaccountably uniform demonstrators with multiple apparently-idetical copies of a very few different signs. All supporting W.

The article continues: “There is no evidence that any protester at Columbia University or any of the nationwide pro-Palestine protests are a paid demonstrator or otherwise not an authentic protester.”

Except, of course, the evidence of the identical signs.

Who’s funding these assholes? This nonsense is gonna continue until whoever it is runs low on money. I have a feeling that’s gonna be a long time.

Big Authoritarian-Wannabe Money is taking over our politics. This is not a good thing, not even for a minimal-government libertarian.

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE was too optimistic.

[Sarcastr0]

Organized != paid.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

True--they're acting like retarded monkeys for free. It's the material support that's paid for by other organizations.

[Dr. Ed 2]

It's the TIDES foundation and the US Government funding this.

[David Nieporent]

Except, of course, the evidence of the identical signs.

You know, post-Gutenberg it's not really that difficult for an individual or a group of friends to have signs printed up. It doesn't require a billionaire-funded NGO.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Correction -- Tides Center. Which is somehow a different entity.

Signs cost more than you might think -- and they wouldn't be identical nationally if there was not a national conspiracy behind them. But I have actual evidence TIDES is involved -- Hamas Fan Clubs thanking TIDES for the money.

[Dr. Ed 2]

"According to a member of the protest press team who asked to remain anonymous, the UMass encampment had been organized by the UMass chapter of Popular Universities for Gaza, in collaboration with other UMass student groups/"

https://www.amherstindy.org/2024/04/30/umass-anti-war-encampment-dismantled/

[jdgalt1]

I notice that one of the episodes on this playlist has already been taken down, presumably by YouTube. YouTube does that to podcasts on controversial topics.

I suggest that whoever owns the podcast move it to Rumble, Locals, or BitChute, where management doesn't take your stuff down for dissent.