| | | Social Justice Jihadis Defend the Violence in Berkeley
Violence helped ensure safety of students
BY JUAN PRIETO | SPECIAL TO THE DAILY CAL LAST UPDATED 15 HOURS AGO
A national debate on freedom of speech has sparked since the night of Feb. 1, when a Breitbart hatemonger’s speech was cancelled because of radical acts against replaceable property at my school, UC Berkeley.
… They want to ensure that there is a distinction between the rioters and the students who were there to protest peacefully.
Well, I’m here to thank the radical measures the AntiFas took to ensure my safety. …
As an outspoken undocumented student at UC Berkeley, this frightened me. I walked around campus constantly looking over my shoulder that day, uncertain whether the doxing of my online profile had already placed a target on me.
On November 7, 2016, I blogged about illegal alien Juan Prieto’s anti-free speech op-ed in the New York Times:
NYT: Undocumented Student Denounces Free Speech on Immigration Policy
STEVE SAILER • NOVEMBER 7, 2016 •
From the New York Times:
Even at Berkeley, I Face Threats as an Undocumented Student
Now this illegal alien continues his campaign against America’s First Amendment by praising the use of violence to suppress free speech:
My campus did nothing to stand between my undocumented community and the hateful hands of radicalized white men — the AntiFas did. A peaceful protest was not going to cancel that event, just like numerous letters from faculty, staff, Free Speech Movement veterans and even donors did not cancel the event. Only the destruction of glass and shooting of fireworks did that. The so-called “violence” against private property that the media seems so concerned with stopped white supremacy from organizing itself against my community.
Also from today’s Daily Californian:
Black bloc did what campus should have
BY NEIL LAWRENCE | SPECIAL TO THE DAILY CAL LAST UPDATED 1 HOUR AGO
… On the afternoon of Feb. 1, a few friends and I met up with many other small groups of friends. We gathered off campus, distributed flags, wrote the National Lawyers Guild number on each others’ arms and helped each other make sure our faces were properly covered. Then we started marching.
… We were not, as the news, the chancellor and concerned progressives have alleged, “unaffiliated white anarchists.” Behind those bandanas and black T-shirts were the faces of your fellow UC Berkeley and Berkeley City College students, of women, of people of color, of queer and trans people.
That would seem to undermine for Cabinet secretary Robert Reich’s tall tale that the masked blackshirts were Milo’s false flag agents provocateur.
… To those who hate Yiannopoulos and the alt-right but have a hard time condoning black bloc tactics and property damage, I understand that these tactics are extreme. But when you consider everything that activists already tried — when mass call-ins, faculty and student objections, letter-writing campaigns, numerous op-eds (including mine), union grievances and peaceful demonstrations don’t work, when the nonviolent tactics have been exhausted — what is left?
And a third from today’s Daily Californian:
Check your privilege when speaking of protests
BY NISA DANG | SPECIAL TO THE DAILY CALLAST UPDATED 20 HOURS AGO
In light of recent events, there has been a resurgence of the belief that in order for a protest to be effective, it must also be nonviolent. This belief especially plagues liberals, who are talented in drafting long Facebook posts about how they are down with the cause, but not really because windows were broken and some white nationalists got their asses beat. Here’s looking at you, Berkeley.
… First, no protest is nonviolent. You are laboring under the assumption that protesters are coming into a peaceful atmosphere and disrupting it through chanting, song and broken windows. This, of course, is a misrepresentation of our society and its treatment of the marginalized. … This is violence. If I know that you are planning to attack me, I’ll do all I can to throw the first punch. …
“As I recently wrote in a tirade against this brand of idiocy, asking people to maintain peaceful dialogue with those who legitimately do not think their lives matter is a violent act.” …
To people with platforms who decide when a protest should and should not be violent: You speak from a place of immense privilege. …
Nisa Dang is an alumna of UC Berkeley.
From Nisa Dang’s Linked-In page:
Experience
Field Organizer
Nevada State Democratic Party
July 2016 – November 2016 (5 months)
In other news, an attempted filibuster of Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be Attorney General was broken today, setting him up for final confirmation on Wednesday.
It’s time for rule of law. |
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