UC Berkeley cancels Milo Yiannopoulos event amid violent protest

[MosheFeingold]

158. Still not sure I understand

I oppose the violence, regardless. It's pointless.

I am also opposed to shutting down any kind of speech, no matter how foul. We can win on a fair exchange of ideas. No reason to be afraid of what idiots say.

In that regard, I am generally troubled by the concept of "hate speech." I'm not sure what it is. I get his ideas and statements are disgusting and foul, but who gets to defined what ideas are so foul they must be censored? And who judges and determines when something goes over the line?

The same force of government that can censor Milo can censor Dennis Kucinich or Michael Moore.

It's far better to ignore idiots like this.

All that happened with the Berkeley riots is they made this Milo person a celebrity and made his book a best seller.

That's not exactly useful.