{"id":6296,"date":"2017-09-28T17:53:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:02:09","slug":"chronicle-editorial-free-speech-isnt-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/28\/chronicle-editorial-free-speech-isnt-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicle editorial: “Free speech isn’t free”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"MiloPhoto: Drew Angerer, Getty Images.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Milo Yiannopoulos<\/span><\/p>\n

September 22, 2017<\/p>\n

Yes, Milo Yiannopoulos is a vile demagogue. Yes, the student groups inviting him and other right-wing agitators to UC Berkeley sometimes appear willfully incompetent. And, yes, Yiannopoulos and company are trying to provoke outrage and violence from left-wing militants who have been all too willing to oblige, forcing the campus to assume extraordinary security expenses.<\/p>\n

None of that, however, alters a public university’s duty to tolerate even regrettable expression. University leaders deserve credit for making that clear in recent weeks and taking pains to accommodate controversial speakers, resisting a chorus of misguided doubts about the value of unfettered speech and Berkeley’s obligation to welcome it.<\/p>\n

Yiannopoulos and fellow bigoted blowhard Ann Coulter, whom Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ aptly described as “deeply trivial people,” may be on campus next week — or may not, judging by past cancellations — along with a highly speculative list of other potential guests that includes President Trump’s ousted consigliere, Steve Bannon, for what they’re calling Free Speech Week.\u00a0 The recently appointed chancellor wisely responded by declaring\u00a0 Free Speech Year and urging the campus to “respond to hate speech with more speech.”\u00a0 As she told The Chronicle’s editorial board Thursday, “The price of free speech is the protection of abhorrent and odious speech.”<\/p>\n

More at:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article\/Editorial-Free-speech-isn-t-free-12219279.php<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images.\u00a0\u00a0Milo Yiannopoulos September 22, 2017 Yes, Milo Yiannopoulos is a vile demagogue. Yes, the student groups inviting him and other right-wing agitators to UC Berkeley sometimes appear willfully incompetent. And, yes, Yiannopoulos and company are trying to provoke outrage and violence from left-wing militants who have… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6303,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}