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Vent: The way Berkeley handled Ann Coulter versus how they handle other speakers shows a clear double standard
Back in 2017, they canceled Ann Coulter's talk over 'security concerns' after protests, but they've hosted plenty of other speakers with heavy police presence and no issue. The difference is they let one side's threats shut down speech they don't like, while finding a way to protect speech they agree with. Has anyone seen a campus that actually applies its free speech rules the same way for everyone?
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baker.betty6mo ago
The Milo Yiannopoulos event at Berkeley in 2017 had a police bill of over $600,000 for security after actual fires were set. So they proved they could handle a major threat. Canceling Coulter a few months later for vague safety reasons just looks like they picked a different line in the sand when they didn't like the speaker.
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the_emery6mo ago
Yeah, that's the real question... what about when they had that conservative speaker last year, the one who got all the protests? They still had the event, just with extra cops. So why was Coulter different? Is it just about the level of the threat, or is it about who's making the threat?
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