No problem, I will renew my prediction. Things will get worse on college campuses in the future, too.
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Wasnât Berkeley home of the free speech movement back in the day?
define âfreeâ. hahahaha
I guess that would be âfree speechâ as long as itâs aligned to certain narratives 
winner, winner, chicken dinner
So apparently, campus police decided that the anti-Israel protesters disrupting and drowning out an Israeli physics profâs lecture about black holes were simply engaging in âfree speechâ, not to be interfered with, so they instead cancelled the lecture and walked the prof out.
What does this mean?
According to the email, the eight students, âseeing no other way to have their voices heard, will subject themselves to an indefinite period of starvation.â
I thought hunger strikes run to the earlier of death or getting what is wanted. I guess that can technically be âindefiniteâ, but if youâre doing it right, there is a better way to put it as being definite: death or change. Does this mean that there will come a point at which the student will evaluate whether theyâve taken it far enough? If theyâre serious, they might want to take a look at what a real hunger strike is all about:
Itâs not about getting to a point where youâre blood glucose level is low and then you eat to keep anything permanent from happening to you. Some of the quotes in the piece seem to leave some wiggle room for how far this will go.
Will be interesting to follow this one through and see how long it lasts.
The article shared a few posts above was from last week.
Below is an update from 2 days ago -
âIn 1978, the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to leave their cells to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement.â
Donât give them and ideas. Not that they donât have some ideas of their own.
Somewhere in GB, there is a dead IRA hunger striker rolling in his grave over these kids calling their protest a hunger strike.
"Itâs said that civilization was founded the moment a man flung a word at his enemy instead of a spear. On our most elite college campusesâmost recently, the University of California, Berkeleyâthe plan seems to be to unfound it. âŚ
It should not come as a great surprise that many in the âwords are violenceâ set resort to actual violence when it comes to speech that upsets themâthey lack respect for the liberal clash of ideas that the ancient Greek philosophers popularized and that has characterized Western society for centuries, if not longer. âŚ
Contrary to what many studentsâand embarrassingly too often, grown adultsâargue, violence, heckling, and shutdowns of events are not free speech, but its hideous and counterproductive opposite. âŚ
Behavior that is rewarded gets repeated. If students that flagrantly and proudly violate the norms of free inquiry, open discourse, and freedom of speech on campus are not disciplined, the inevitable consequence will be even less hesitation to do it again.
Campuses must have the highest tolerance for opinion and expression, but no tolerance at all for violence."
From Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
Hereâs todayâs letter from UCB Chancellor Carol Christ giving an update on the universityâs response: Responding to the events of Feb. 26 | Berkeley
all talk.
It may be âunacceptableâ but that does not mean the campus police will stop a similar demonstration in the future.
Itâs difficult when the campus is in an urban area and some of the most troublesome activists arenât university students (I know some of the local activists personally⌠sigh).
I hope they are able to make some progress, though.
itâs not difficult to arrest people. And if they are not University students, they are trespassing in addition to creating havoc. Just gotta have a will to do so.
Itâs all talk.