Berkeley Students Call On College To Cancel Speech By ‘Bigot and Racist’ Bill Maher

[Spike]

ha ha - how the tide turns


According to The Daily Californian, students at the University of California, Berkeley are petitioning to cancel a Bill Maher speaking engagement in December over his recent comments about Islam.

“Bill Maher is a blatant bigot and racist who has no respect for the values UC Berkeley students and administration stand for,” the Change.org petition reads. The comedian’s “public statements on various religions and cultures are offensive and his dangerous rhetoric has found its way into our campus communities,” the petition continues. Too many students are marginalized by his remarks and if the University were to bring this individual as a commencement speaker they would not be supporting these historically marginalized communities”

Maher has come under fire in recent weeks, most notably for his fiery spat with Ben Affleck on a recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.

He claimed that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia,” and that Muslims “will f*cking kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/...cancel-speech-by-bigot-and-racist-bill-maher/

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Obamabots to the rescue! Save the Muslims!

 

[EdReed4Prez]

We will not tolerate your intolerance!

 

[hamster]

UC Berkeley. Enough said.

 

[Ironcitysteelers]

Alah Akbar or whatever the ****. Lol. Funny thing hhis point is dead on. Instead of made men the top level towel heads get to bang the best goats.

 

[madinsomniac]

Freedom of speech, unless you don't have the same opinion as me about something... its the American way

 

[Steeltime]

Colleges were the birthplace of speech suppression. I hope the irony is not lost on us ...

Today, university bureaucrats suppress debate with anti-harassment policies that function as de facto speech codes. FIRE maintains a database of such policies on its website, and Mr. Lukianoff's book offers an eye-opening sampling. What they share is a view of "harassment" so broad and so removed from its legal definition that, Mr. Lukianoff says, "literally every student on campus is already guilty."

At Western Michigan University, it is considered harassment to hold a "condescending sex-based attitude." That just about sums up the line "I think of all Harvard men as sissies" (from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920 novel "This Side of Paradise"), a quote that was banned at Yale when students put it on a T-shirt. Tufts University in Boston proscribes the holding of "sexist attitudes," and a student newspaper there was found guilty of harassment in 2007 for printing violent passages from the Quran and facts about the status of women in Saudi Arabia during the school's "Islamic Awareness Week."

A 2010 survey by the American Association of Colleges and Universities found that of 24,000 college students, only 35.6% strongly agreed that "it is safe to hold unpopular views on campus." When the question was asked of 9,000 campus professionals—who are more familiar with the enforcement end of the censorship rules—only 18.8% strongly agreed.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323894704578115440209134854

 

[Spike]

yeah - **** the Freedom of Speech - the Uber PC Genertioon will make it a thought crime to even think about telling the truth about the death cults of radical Islam or anything else "controversial".

you watch

 

[Ron Burgundy]

He claimed that Islam is “the only religion that acts like the mafia,” and that Muslims “will f*cking kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”

Well yeah, 'cause that'll never happen.

 

[Steelr4evr]

So left idiot liberals chewing out other idiot left liberals. Works for me.I detest Bill Maher,but i agree with him on this one 100% I'm still not going to watch his ******* show.

 

[Hypocycloids]

What sticks out for me is the hypocrisy of liberalism.
Bill Mahr made a living ripping on Christianity... but ridiculing Islam is a no-no.

 

[hamster]

What sticks out for me is the hypocrisy of liberalism.
Bill Mahr made a living ripping on Christianity... but ridiculing Islam is a no-no.

Equally hypocritical is the liberal support of abortion, but against capital punishment.
Save the guilty, but kill the innocent.

Libs have lost their moral compass. Lunacy.