So Berkeley might have actually done something smart. NO cancelling Ann Coulter’s soapbox wasn’t it because she’ll claim they’re trying to shut her up, which i don’t think could ever happen. After all the recent “Clash of Idiocy” happening between protesters it’s smart to shutdown ALL soapboxes – PB/TK
Berkeley cancels conservative firebrand Ann Coulter’s speech over fears of more violent protests –
After riots and violent protests in and around their campus during the past three months, officials at the University of California at Berkeley said Wednesday that the school is canceling a planned speech by conservative firebrand Ann Coulter because of safety concerns.
In a letter to a campus Republican group that invited Coulter to speak, university officials said that they made the decision to cancel Coulter’s appearance after assessing the violence that flared on campus in February, when the same college Republican group invited right-wing provocateur and now-former Breitbart News senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos to speak.
The violence and protests caused by Yiannopoulos’s invitation garnered national attention and forced officials to put the campus on lockdown. And after the university canceled Yiannopoulos’s talk, President Trump criticized the school and threatened in a tweet to pull federal funds from UC-Berkeley.
Continue to washingtonpost.com article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/19/berkeley-cancels-ann-coulter-speech-over-fears-of-more-violent-protests/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_coulter-5pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.763c91320ef1
