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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
Milo isn't enrolled there, he was invited. If the school takes steps to ban him, that would be their prerogative, which they would certainly be challenged on. But they didn't do that. Who from Berkeley was specifically targeted by Milo's bullying? Pretty sure Milo doesn't charge for his speaking events, so how is it at the expense of the students? The expense of their feelings? The group that brought him in paid for the security fees, not the school. Who pays for all the busted/firebomed junk?
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Not sure how clubs are managed at Berkeley but at most universities the clubs receive funding from the SU, which receives its money from SU fees, so yeah, the students are paying for it either way.
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Then what was all "need to enact civil disobedience" crap about? By all means protest, but do not destroy property and assault others. Whats so hard to understand here? It wasn't a protest, it was a riot. "Oh the guy said mean things on the interwebs, lets start the place on fire." Come on man, Milo doesn't deserve respect but these violent #######s certainly do not, and they are not collecting favor with their peers. Unless of course, they consider their peers to be the young turks and their ilk. They think its awesome and justifiable.
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I've already said I thought these particular protests were stupid in a previous post. That doesn't mean I can't be in favour of civil disobedience as a general principle in other situations. I was mostly pointing out its effectiveness in this situation. And, as I noted earlier, it's hard to come down morally against property destruction as a political statement when the country glorifies it as part of its origin mythology.
Also, are you really going to trivialize the type of crap that Milo was pulling on Twitter or the type of garbage he spouts on a consistent basis like that? This is part of the reason, IMO, the left has begun to escalate things more in the last 4-5 years.