The vast majority of us know who Adolf Hitler was. Even with the slightest level of historical understanding, we know that he was an evil man with an evil ideology responsible for millions of deaths. As a result, anyone who is accused of holding even a fraction of Hitler’s political views is judged with an understandable level of scorn, and those who openly align themselves with such an ideology are rightly exiled from mainstream society.
This is an easy position to understand. After all, one only has to look at the unimaginable violence ushered in by the totalitarian fascism of Nazi Germany to know that such an ideology is based on entirely immoral principles. However, if death tolls mean that Nazism, fascism, and white supremacy are evil ideologies, why is the same basic logic not applied to the politics of the far Left?
Under the ruthless communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union alone, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810">Wall Street Journal</a>, “victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror (1918-22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937-38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the Gulag, labor colonies and special settlements.”
After the murder of at least 16,600,000 civilians, surely those with even a tangential connection to this regime would be wholeheartedly rejected by a political party who claim to advocate for peace and tolerance? Quite the opposite! Bernie Sanders, who has praised dictators and leftist regimes on multiple occasions – and even <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6989969/Topless-Sanders-banqueting-Soviet-Union-attacked-U-S-foreign-interventions.html">spent his honeymoon</a> in the Soviet Union – now leads the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party, which represents the party base.
If we take other communist and socialist regimes into account, including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, and Venezuela, the estimated death count rockets to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=H1jsgYCoRioC">almost 100 million people</a>. This number is more than five times greater than that of Nazi Germany, and yet the continued promulgation of the politics of communism, socialism, and Marxism is permitted in a way that would be (thankfully) unimaginable if it were applied to Nazism or fascism.
The shocking acceptance of radical Leftism simply must end if we hope to prevent continued damage in the wake of this evil ideology. When politicians such as Bernie Sanders praise or effectively apologize for the actions of murderous dictators, they should be cast out of polite society with the same fervor as if someone said, “Hitler may have killed lots of Jews, but the roads sure were pretty!”
Sanders <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/bernie-sanders-fidel-castro-florida.html">said</a>: “When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
This problem exists even at the pinnacle of American Leftism. The fact that a potential vice presidential candidate survived <a href="https://youtu.be/t8ZWtqIzmQI">refusing to reject Marxism</a> – while offering a disingenuous apology for praising Fidel Castro – should terrify anyone who values freedom and liberty.
The number of graves beneath history’s bloodthirsty communist and socialist regimes is staggering.
Had it not been for the United States, these numbers would have continued to rise as radical Leftism spread across the globe. The United States must continue to stand as the world’s greatest single force against totalitarianism and tyranny. This crucial moral battle will become impossible if we continue to allow these ideologies to fester within our borders.
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HAWORTH: The Deadly Double Standard Of Communism Vs. Fascism

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According to feminist Amanda Marcotte, a &#8220;politics&#8221; writer at Salon, Hallmark Channel movies are &#8220;fascist propaganda&#8221; filled with &#8220;shiny-teethed, blow-dried heteronormative whiteness.&#8221;
&#8220;Hallmark movies, as cloying and saccharine as they are, constitute the platonic ideal of fascist propaganda,&#8221; Marcotte posits in a think piece for <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/12/25/hallmark-christmas-movies-fascist-propaganda/">Salon</a> published on Christmas day.
The predictable romantic comedies always center around &#8220;MAGA-style ideas about what constitutes &#8216;real&#8217; America,'&#8221; the feminist complains, adding, &#8220;Their money comes from selling a vision of America that increasingly authoritarian conservatives wish to believe once existed and can be restored again — an America that excludes most of an increasingly urban, racially diverse, cosmopolitan nation.&#8221;
If you were unaware that your sweet 60-year-old mother was consuming fascist propaganda in enormous quantities, particularly during the holidays, that&#8217;s likely because the fascist messaging is applied subtly, just like they did in Nazi Germany, the feminist explains:
<blockquote>When most of us think about fascistically propagandistic movies, we think of the grotesque grandeur of <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/leni-riefenstahl">Leni Riefenstahl&#8217;s films celebrating the Third Reich</a> — grand, but cold sweeping shots of soldiers goose-stepping and flags waving, all meant to inspire awe and terror. But the reality is, even in Nazi Germany, the majority of movies approved by the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/11/archives/escapist-movies-from-wartime-germany-german-war-movies.html">were escapist and feather-light,</a> <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/german-expert-on-nazi-films-and-propaganda/a-2728383">with a Hallmark movie-style</a> emphasis on the importance of &#8220;normality.&#8221;</blockquote>
Kate, a workaholic who finally made partner, getting stranded in her hometown during the holidays only to predictably fall in love with the sweet, simple boy next door seems harmless, but that&#8217;s all part of developing an &#8220;authoritarian worldview,&#8221; warns Marcotte.
&#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of reason that empty-headed kitsch fits neatly in the authoritarian worldview,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;It&#8217;s storytelling that imitates the gestures of emotion without actually engaging with real feeling. The Hallmark movie steers clear of the real passion or deeper emotion that tends to be the engine driving more artful fiction. Characters who have real feelings, after all, can prompt empathetic reactions in the audience, and empathy for others is the greatest single threat to the authoritarian mindset. And so schmaltz walks through the paces of &#8216;love&#8217; without touching on any of the messy but compelling realities of it.&#8221;
Marcotte&#8217;s screed against Hallmark Channel movies comes on the heels of a lesbian kiss controversy surrounding the channel.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hallmark-channel-apologizes-will-allow-lgbt-ads-promises-to-work-with-glaad">The Daily Wire</a>, a #BoycottHallmarkChannel hashtag trended easier this month after The New York Times reported that the channel pulled four ads from wedding planning and registry website Zola that featured a same-sex marriage kiss. The company was pressured by activist family group One Million Moms, which denounced the lesbian kiss as inappropriate for the “family-friendly” channel.
Hallmark, however, ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hallmark-channel-apologizes-will-allow-lgbt-ads-promises-to-work-with-glaad">caved</a> to left-wing pressures after initially pulling the ad.
“The Crown Media team has been agonizing over this decision as we’ve seen the hurt it has unintentionally caused,” CEO of Hallmark Cards, Inc. Mike Perry said in a statement. “Said simply, they believe this was the wrong decision. Our mission is rooted in helping all people connect, celebrate traditions and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives. Anything that detracts from this purpose is not who we are. We are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused. … Across our brand, we will continue to look for ways to be more inclusive and celebrate our differences.”

Hallmark Channel Hosts

Feminist: ‘Hallmark Movies Are Fascist Propaganda’

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Editor&#8217;s Note: Because the internet is filled with foolish people, the editors of The Daily Wire wish to note that this column utilizes a literary device called sarcasm.
As you&#8217;ve heard, a group of virtuous freedom fighters took to the streets of Portland this past weekend to protest the rise of fascism in the United States. They expressed their point of view by marching and chanting and occasionally smacking someone in the face with a crowbar. Conservatives, of course, have not stopped complaining about this peaceful political demonstration. These snowflakes just love &#8220;free speech&#8221; until someone uses their free speech to fracture a skull. Typical hypocrisy from the Right.
But despite Antifa&#8217;s honorable efforts to raise awareness of the fascist threat, there are still many who deny that fascism is a problem. Even worse, there are some who make the wild claim that the &#8220;real fascists&#8221; are the ones who will bludgeon you with a blunt object if they don&#8217;t like your opinions. This is absurd, obviously. Antifa stands for &#8220;Anti-fascist.&#8221; They literally cannot be fascist. It says &#8220;anti&#8221; right there in the name. Can you not read? What&#8217;s the problem here?
No, Antifa isn&#8217;t fascist. But there are fascists in this country. A lot of them, too. For those who have not been paying close attention, I will provide a guide to identifying fascists. We&#8217;ll make this very simple.
1. Everyone who disagrees with me is fascist. 
I am progressive and enlightened. I went to college. I read a book every year. I listen to informative podcasts. My views on all things are objectively correct. Truth is relative, of course, but my truth is far truthier than the average schlub&#8217;s truth. To deny my truth — which, again, is a very true truth — is an act of fascism.
2. Everyone who fails to sufficiently value tolerance and open-mindedness is fascist. 
The most important thing in life is to be tolerant and accepting. Intolerant people deserve to be beaten to death with a bicycle chain.
3. Everyone who votes Republican is fascist. 
This is self-explanatory.
4. All racists are fascist. 
I should clarify what is meant by &#8220;racist.&#8221; It&#8217;s a popular myth that racism is simply hating someone based on his or her race. The truth is much more complex than that. You probably can&#8217;t understand it, so you&#8217;ll just have to let me tell you who is racist. Shut up and stop asking questions, fascist. I&#8217;m the one who decides these things, not you.
5. All religious people are fascist. Except Muslims.
Religious people use their superstition to hurt and oppress others, which is fascist. Muslims are the exception to this rule, as all Muslim countries are utopias of peace and tranquility. Calling Muslims fascist is fascist. Not calling Christians fascist is fascist.
6. All sexists and transphobes and homophobes are fascist.
Again, we must stipulate that these terms have complex meanings. For instance, it is sexist for a man to disagree with a woman, but it is not sexist for a woman to observe that men are useless, parasitic scum. A true non-fascist will allow his moral superiors to instruct him on what does and does not constitute bigotry. Anyone who attempts to apply his own critical thinking capacities to the question is a fascist.
If anyone in your life falls into any of these categories, it is your obligation to deal with the problem. As we anti-fascists are committed to non-violence, your first step should be dialogue. Simply walk up to the fascist and instruct him to cease his fascist activities immediately. If he says &#8220;no&#8221; or &#8220;what?&#8221; or &#8220;why are you carrying that lead pipe?,&#8221; then you know that further discussion is useless. The only remaining option is to beat the fascist over the head until he becomes as loving and tolerant as you.

WALSH: How To Identify And Destroy Fascists

Andy Ngo

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Portland

On Sunday, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) mocked the creators of the Green New Deal, among them Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), by likening her and her cohorts ideas to the dreams of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. Ocasio-Cortez missed the joke, however, in the process displaying once again that she&#8217;s not the most sophisticated thinker in the continental United States.
Cornyn tweeted, &#8220;&#8216;We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.&#8217; Benito Mussolini.&#8221;
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&#8220;We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.&#8221; Benito Mussolini
&#8212; Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1099704915956559872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While Cornyn was obviously mocking her and her fellow true-believers who want the government to clamp down on individual rights by blowing up the size of the federal government, Ocasio-Cortez demonstrated her razor-sharp intelligence by responding on Twitter, &#8220;In case you missed it, while the GOP is calling paying a living wage &#8216;socialism,&#8217; a Republican Senator full-on quoted National Fascist Party leader and Hitler ally Benito Mussolini like it&#8217;s a Hallmark card.&#8221;
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In case you missed it, while the GOP is calling paying a living wage &#8220;socialism,&#8221; a Republican Senator full-on quoted National Fascist Party leader and Hitler ally Benito Mussolini like it&#8217;s a Hallmark card.
<a href="https://t.co/aJmdsPYrkG">https://t.co/aJmdsPYrkG</a>
&#8212; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1100183608957026304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Twitter resounded with examples of people scratching their heads at Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s obtuseness. A few examples:
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Were you dropped on your head as a baby, or is this an even dumber staffer? <a href="https://t.co/vkE0wAnHdE">https://t.co/vkE0wAnHdE</a>
&#8212; Free Jussie Smollett (@jtLOL) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1100201631755526144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Hmmm&#8230; Did you read it before tweeting? <a href="https://t.co/5hziYGx4oJ">https://t.co/5hziYGx4oJ</a>
&#8212; The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1100207688787537921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s funny how she doesn&#8217;t get that he&#8217;s quoting one of her ideological forefathers to mock her. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DimBulb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DimBulb</a> <a href="https://t.co/os88GjEuvt">https://t.co/os88GjEuvt</a>
&#8212; Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) <a href="https://twitter.com/derekahunter/status/1100204639369203712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In case Ocasio-Cortez needs some illumination as to what fascism is, considering Cornyn was likening the plans of extremist Democrats to fascism, here&#8217;s Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh6MPVoUNl8">from his speech</a> at the University of California, Berkeley, in September 2017, as to fascism:
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What actually is fascism? It&#8217;s a term that gets thrown around a lot by people who have never read a book. Fascism is the phenomenon whereby people believe that they have the capacity to ram their beliefs down your throat at the point of a gun or say the point of a baton or by throwing Molotov cocktails. That&#8217;s what fascism truly is. Fascism is more of a tactic than it is an ideology. It&#8217;s sort of vague in terms of ideology; there are people on the Left who are fascist, people like Stalin, and then you&#8217;ve had people who are on the European Right, like Hitler, who was fascist, who was actually closer to the traditional American Left than he would be to the traditional American Right.
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So if the basic premise of fascism is that a group of people want to ram their beliefs down your throat, then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43875/watch-ocasio-cortez-gets-compared-cash-me-outside-ryan-saavedra">quotes</a> such as &#8220;So people are like, &#8216;Oh it&#8217;s unrealistic. Oh it&#8217;s vague. Oh it doesn&#8217;t address this little minute thing.&#8217; And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;You try. You do it. Cuz you&#8217;re not. Cuz you&#8217;re not. So, until you do it, I&#8217;m the boss.&#8217; How bout that?&#8221; might qualify.
As far as Cornyn&#8217;s remark about &#8220;the more the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become,&#8221; certainly the demands of the Green New Deal, which postulated that every building in the United States should be upgraded or replaced and that air travel should stop being necessary, seem to indicate a rather oppressive government stifling the rights of the individual.
But what makes Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s response most amusing in its thick-headedness is the fact that Cornyn had followed his initial tweet with two more that clearly elucidated what he was saying, and those were both issued before she responded:
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You nailed it, Bud. Since so-called Democratic Socialists have forgotten or never learned the lessons of history, and how their ideology is incompatible with freedom, I guess we have to remind or teach them. <a href="https://t.co/ftzal1DMED">https://t.co/ftzal1DMED</a>
&#8212; Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1099808300642824193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Did I over estimate the intelligence of some in the twitter sphere? <a href="https://t.co/Cf8nUY3NUO">https://t.co/Cf8nUY3NUO</a>
&#8212; Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1099835478222749697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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GOP Senator Mocks AOC. It Goes Whistling Over Her Head.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

John Cornyn

Only a handful of white supremacists showed up to a planned &#8220;Unite the Right 2&#8221; rally Sunday in Washington, D.C., and counter-protesters and law enforcement far out-numbered protesters as they marched to the White House.
<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/12/white-supremacists-washington-charlottesville-774562">Politico reports that only 30 white supremacists</a>, neo-Nazis, and other assorted &#8220;alt-right&#8221; figures arrived, via Washington D.C.&#8217;s public transportation system, for a march to Lafayette Square slated to begin around 3pm eastern time.
Counter-protesters and &#8220;anti-Fascists&#8221; began their own demonstrations much earlier, crowding the National Mall and D.C. parks in preparation to shout down the permitted Unite the Right 2 rally. They were left to make up most of the group&#8217;s march, with a thin line of law enforcement officials charged with keeping the peace between the two groups.
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Here&#8217;s Jason Kessler marching to his <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UniteTheRight2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UniteTheRight2</a> rally. Note: there are only a dozen or two white supremacists with him. <a href="https://t.co/PGVgbLlept">pic.twitter.com/PGVgbLlept</a>
&#8212; Christal Hayes (@Journo_Christal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Journo_Christal/status/1028719282786631685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
A few skirmishes broke out near the front of the march.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Violent breaks out as white nationalists arrive. They&#8217;re marching to Lafayette Square for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UniteTheRight2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UniteTheRight2</a> rally. <a href="https://t.co/habUtR1tgx">pic.twitter.com/habUtR1tgx</a>
&#8212; Christal Hayes (@Journo_Christal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Journo_Christal/status/1028718197967609856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
But if either side was looking for a fight, options were limited.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Violent breaks out as white nationalists arrive. They&#8217;re marching to Lafayette Square for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UniteTheRight2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UniteTheRight2</a> rally. <a href="https://t.co/habUtR1tgx">pic.twitter.com/habUtR1tgx</a>
&#8212; Christal Hayes (@Journo_Christal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Journo_Christal/status/1028718197967609856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Can&#8217;t stress enough how underwhelming the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UniteTheRight2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UniteTheRight2</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/unitetheright?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#unitetheright</a> group is. Twenty MAGA dudes walking inside of 100s of cops, 100s of media, and 1000s of counter demonstrators down F street <a href="https://t.co/BQZBpn9oME">pic.twitter.com/BQZBpn9oME</a>
&#8212; Scott Heins (@scottheins) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottheins/status/1028722785336614912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
The Unite the Right group met in Lafayette Square for a &#8220;rally,&#8221; but it is expected to be short-lived. A storm is moving into the Beltway and should arrive by 6pm.
Among the counter-protesters were elements organized by ANSWER coalition, an international pro-Communist organization, and of course, Antifa.
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Antifa moving down 17th St
&#8220;It takes bullet to bash fash&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/tytfjTFajX">pic.twitter.com/tytfjTFajX</a>
&#8212; Tim Mak (@timkmak) <a href="https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1028727834435563522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
They may prove harder to disperse.

Police, Counter-Protesters FAR Outnumber Marchers At D.C. White Supremacist Rally

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Former Republican Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas was fond of telling a story about his time stumping for educational change. &#8220;My educational policies are based on the fact that I care more about my children than you do,&#8221; Gramm once said to a woman. &#8220;No, you don&#8217;t,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;OK,&#8221; said Gramm. &#8220;What are their names?&#8221;
Gramm&#8217;s fundamental premise is inalterably correct: Parents care more about their children than do the members of the bureaucracy. But parents are being gradually curbed in their authority by precisely those bureaucrats across the West.
On Tuesday, a British court condemned a not-yet-2-year-old child to die. Now, make no mistake: The child, Alfie Evans, is expected to die in the near future anyway; he suffers from an undiagnosed brain condition that has robbed him of much of his function. But his parents simply wanted to be able to transfer him from a British hospital to an Italian hospital to seek experimental care.
And the British court system refused.
Citing the expertise of Evans&#8217; doctors, the courts declared that Evans&#8217; best interests are not served by his parents&#8217; attempts to save his life. Instead, the little boy would be deprived of life support, left to die without oxygen or water. The ruling, the judge said, &#8220;represents the final chapter in the life of this extraordinary little boy.&#8221; But that chapter was written by the British bureaucracy, not by his parents &#8212; the ones who will have to engrave his epitaph and visit his grave.
This appalling result isn&#8217;t the first of its kind; just last year, a little boy named Charlie Gard was taken off life support thanks to the British court system, which prevented his parents from sending him to the United States for further treatment. Again, the courts made the argument that the best interest of the child lay in his death.
All of this is the final result of a system of thought that places parental control of children below the expertise of bureaucrats on the scale of priorities. It&#8217;s one thing for the government to step in when parents are preventing children from receiving life-saving care. It&#8217;s another when the government steps in to prevent parents from pursuing potentially life-saving care. And yet that&#8217;s just what has happened repeatedly in the United Kingdom.
Why? Why would British society place parents&#8217; wishes below the wishes of the state? Because a bureaucratic society of experts generally sees parents as an obstacle to proper development. Parents, in this view, treat their children as chattel to be owned and trained &#8212; but the state can treat children with the dignity they are due. This means placing parental wishes to the side in every case in which those wishes come into conflict with the priorities of the state.
The bureaucrats of Britain don&#8217;t merely usurp parental rights in the realm of life and death; they do so in the realm of upbringing as well. They have threatened religious Jewish schools for failing to inculcate children with LGBT propaganda; meanwhile, they have ignored the targeting of young women in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and Newcastle because the perpetrators are disproportionately Muslim.
All of this is untenable, both morally and practically. Parents will not continue to give the power to control their children away to bureaucrats who do not know their children&#8217;s names.
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Who Controls Your Kids’ Lives?

On Wednesday, New York Times columnist Bari Weiss penned an op-ed explaining the rising tendency on the Left to label all those who are not sufficiently &#8220;woke&#8221; as &#8220;fascists.&#8221; She&#8217;s absolutely correct, of course &#8212; as the leading target of the alt-right during the 2016 election cycle, I was routinely labeled a &#8220;fascist&#8221; and a member of the alt-right for no reason other than my failure to support leftist policy prescriptions and my opposition to political correctness.
Weiss writes, &#8220;We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise,&#8221; naming Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Bashar Assad. But, she continues, &#8220;these are generally not the extremists that leftists focus on. Instead, they seem to believe that the real cause for concern are the secret authoritarians passing as liberals and conservatives in our midst.&#8221; People like Christina Hoff Sommers and Laura Kipnis and Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Mary Beard. Weiss concludes:
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By tossing people like Mary Beard and Christina Hoff Sommers into the slop bucket with the likes of Richard Spencer, they are attempting to place their reasonable ideas firmly outside the mainstream. They are trying to make criticism of identity politics, radical Islam and third-wave feminism, among various other subjects, verboten. For even the most minor transgressions, as in the case of Professor Beard, people are turned radioactive. &#8230; The main effect is that these endless accusations of &#8220;fascism&#8221; or &#8220;misogyny&#8221; or &#8220;alt-right&#8221; dull the effects of the words themselves. As they are stripped of meaning, they strip us of our sharpness &#8212; of our ability to react forcefully to real fascists and misogynists or members of the alt-right.
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This is, naturally, precisely correct. And it extends even to full-scale liberals like Steven Pinker and Sam Harris, both of whom have been accused of heresy by the Left for their failure to buy into data-free politically correct tropes. But for the sin of calling out the &#8220;woke&#8221; Left, Weiss herself was labeled . . . alt-right. Yes, really. Here was Amanda Marcotte of Salon.com:
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The best part of this tweet is that it totally proves <a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bariweiss</a> point &#8212; that the left deploys labels in ridiculous fashion to target all those who are not sufficiently woke <a href="https://t.co/0ADy8Nzvpl">pic.twitter.com/0ADy8Nzvpl</a>
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The Left won&#8217;t stop using the mislabeling tactic, because they believe it&#8217;s effective. By slandering everyone they don&#8217;t like as &#8220;fascist,&#8221; they hope to cow those voices into silence. It won&#8217;t work. The era of such nonsense is over.

NYT Columnist Says Leftists Keep Calling Non-Leftists ‘Alt-Right.’ So A Salon Columnist Calls Her Alt-Right.

Alt-Right

New York Times

Wanna&#8217; watch TV without politics in your favorite show? Sorry, come back &#8212; never.
Politics has infused everything &#8212; late-night comedy shows, prime-time dramas and sitcoms, even Sunday football. The very liberal media, owned by very liberal people living in very liberal cities, have decided that they just don&#8217;t care about the 60 million-plus Americans who don&#8217;t think like them.
That same mainstream media have been, of late, praising North Korean dictator&#8217;s Kim Jong Un&#8217;s sister, saying she stared down U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the Olympics in South Korea. So it makes perfect sense that a new TV show would decry President Trump as a &#8220;fascist.&#8221;
On Sunday, the season premiere of &#8220;Homeland&#8221; &#8212; subtly titled &#8220;Enemy of the State&#8221; &#8212; followed up on last season&#8217;s finale in which the fictional president, Elizabeth Keane, ordered the arrest of 200 U.S. intelligence agents for allegedly being connected to her attempted assassination.
&#8220;Wrapping up an hour that established President Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) as a &#8216;fascist,&#8217; the first episode&#8217;s final seconds pushed her iron fist even further: General McClendon (Robert Knepper), who committed treason by plotting to kill President Keane at the end of Season 6, is dishonorably discharged and sentenced to life in prison,&#8221; <a href="http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/homeland-season-7-premiere-ending-fuck-yeah-1201927006/">IndieWire</a> reports. &#8220;But the president thinks he&#8217;s getting off too easy and tells her chief of staff David Wellington (Linus Roache) to &#8216;fix it&#8217; &#8212; implying from earlier conversations that she wants her original wishes carried out: She wants McClendon dead, and Wellington makes it happen.&#8221;
Take this dialogue, compiled by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/lindsay-kornick/2018/02/12/homeland-season-premiere-takes-paranoid-fascist-president">Newsbusters</a>.
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Wellington: Well, I&#8217;m not sure going after him directly was the best move.
Keane: He openly challenged me. What was I supposed to do?
Wellington: Well, you might&#8217;ve stuck to the script.
Keane: I had to respond.
Wellington: Senator Paley was on CNB this morning, calling your leadership style &#8220;thuggish&#8221; and &#8220;authoritarian.&#8221; No one&#8217;s doubting how tough you are.
Keane: Good.
Wellington: Which makes it exactly the right time to throttle back a little, take your foot off the gas.
Keane: Not yet.
Wellington: Elizabeth&#8212;
Keane: I said not yet.
Wellington: Can I give you a quick brief?
Keane: Sure.
Wellington: Paley&#8217;s Committee is about to issue its first round of subpoenas to senior White House staff, including myself.
Keane: I know that, David.
Wellington: There&#8217;s talk of a special prosecutor.
Keane: I know that, too. How is it they tried to assassinate me, and I am the one under investigation?
Wellington: Because we locked up over 200 of their best friends and neighbors.
Keane: Yeah, for damn good reasons.
Wellington: Kept them for nearly two months. Some would say denied their civil rights.
Keane: That was the other reason &#8212; send a message. &#8220;Don&#8217;t f[***] with us ever again.&#8221;
Wellington: Yeah, well, I think they got that loud and clear.
Keane: Well, we&#8217;ll see. Won&#8217;t we? When the jury comes back with the appropriate sentence.
Wellington: They will.
Keane: They better.
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If you&#8217;re at all weirded out by the fact that America&#8217;s media are praising a vicious dictator while portraying their own president as fascist, well, welcome to the club.

‘Homeland’ Season Premiere Features ‘Paranoid,’ ‘Fascist’ President

Donald Trump

Mike Pence

&#8203;Before the question, how about a few statistics? The 20th century was mankind&#8217;s most brutal century. Roughly 16 million people lost their lives during World War I; about 60 million died during World War II. Wars during the 20th century cost an estimated <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ya62mrqa">71 million to 116 million lives</a>.
The number of war dead pales in comparison with the number of people who lost their lives at the hands of their own governments. The late professor Rudolph J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii documented this tragedy in his book &#8220;Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900.&#8221; Some of the statistics found in the book have been updated at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y96tqhrl">http://tinyurl.com/y96tqhrl</a>.
The People&#8217;s Republic of China tops the list, with 76 million lives lost at the hands of the government from 1949 to 1987. The Soviet Union follows, with 62 million lives lost from 1917 to 1987. Adolf Hitler&#8217;s Nazi German government killed 21 million people between 1933 and 1945. Then there are lesser murdering regimes, such as Nationalist China, Japan, Turkey, Vietnam and Mexico. According to Rummel&#8217;s research, the 20th century saw <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lu8z8ab">262 million</a> people&#8217;s lives lost at the hands of their own governments.
Hitler&#8217;s atrocities are widely recognized, publicized and condemned. World War II&#8217;s conquering nations&#8217; condemnation included denazification and bringing Holocaust perpetrators to trial and punishing them through lengthy sentences and execution. Similar measures were taken to punish Japan&#8217;s murderers.
But what about the greatest murderers in mankind&#8217;s history &#8212; the Soviet Union&#8217;s Josef Stalin and China&#8217;s Mao Zedong? Some leftists saw these communists as heroes. W.E.B. Du Bois, writing in the National Guardian in 1953, said, &#8220;Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. &#8230; The highest proof of his greatness (was that) he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.&#8221; Walter Duranty called Stalin &#8220;the greatest living statesman&#8221; and &#8220;a quiet, unobtrusive man.&#8221; There was even leftist admiration for Hitler and fellow fascist Benito Mussolini. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, George Bernard Shaw described him as &#8220;a very remarkable man, a very able man.&#8221; President Franklin Roosevelt called the fascist Mussolini &#8220;admirable,&#8221; and he was &#8220;deeply impressed by what he (had) accomplished.&#8221;
In 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith visited Communist China and praised Mao and the Chinese economic system. Michel Oksenberg, President Jimmy Carter&#8217;s China expert, complained, &#8220;America (is) doomed to decay until radical, even revolutionary, change fundamentally alters the institutions and values.&#8221; He urged us to &#8220;borrow ideas and solutions&#8221; from China. Harvard University professor John K. Fairbank believed that America could learn much from the Cultural Revolution, saying, &#8220;Americans may find in China&#8217;s collective life today an ingredient of personal moral concern for one&#8217;s neighbor that has a lesson for us all.&#8221; By the way, an estimated 2 million people died during China&#8217;s Cultural Revolution. More recent praise for murdering tyrants came from Anita Dunn, President Barack Obama&#8217;s acting communications director in 2009, who said, &#8220;Two of my favorite political philosophers (are) Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa.&#8221;
Recall the campus demonstrations of the 1960s, in which campus radicals, often accompanied by their professors, marched around singing the praises of Mao and waving Mao&#8217;s Little Red Book. That may explain some of the campus mess today. Some of those campus radicals are now tenured professors and administrators at today&#8217;s universities and colleges and K-12 schoolteachers and principals indoctrinating our youth.
Now the question: Why are leftists soft on communism? The reason leftists give communists, the world&#8217;s most horrible murderers, a pass is that they sympathize with the chief goal of communism: restricting personal liberty. In the U.S., the call is for government control over our lives through regulations and taxation. Unfortunately, it matters little whether the Democrats or Republicans have the political power. The march toward greater government control is unabated. It just happens at a quicker pace with Democrats in charge.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
COPYRIGHT 2017 CREATORS.COM

WILLIAMS: Fascism And Communism

Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, author of &#8220;The Big Lie,&#8221; hosts the newest Prager University <a href="https://www.prageru.com/videos/fascism-right-or-left">video</a>, &#8220;Is Fascism Right or Left?&#8221; where he discusses the little known history of the fascist movement &#8212; a history the far-left would rather remain buried.
&#8220;&#8216;He&#8217;s a fascist!&#8217; For decades, this has been a favorite smear of the left, aimed at those on the right,&#8221; D&#8217;Souza begins. &#8220;Every Republican president, for that matter, virtually every Republican since the 1970s, has been called a fascist; now, more than ever.&#8221;
He continues, &#8220;This label is based on the idea that fascism is a phenomenon of the political right. The left says it is, and some self-styled white supremacists and neo-Nazis embrace the label. But are they correct?&#8221;
Capitalism, D&#8217;Souza points out, can be traced to Adam Smith, and socialism can be traced to Karl Marx, but the principle philosopher of fascism has been hidden by far-left historians. 
&#8220;Let me introduce him to you. His name is Giovanni Gentile,&#8221; D&#8217;Souza says. 
Gentile was an Italian philosopher born in the first half of the 20th century. In his writings, he dismisses individualism in favor of a system where citizens were subordinate to the state.
&#8220;Like his philosophical mentor, Karl Marx, Gentile wanted to create a community that resembles the family, a community where we are &#8216;all in this together,'&#8221; says D&#8217;Souza. &#8220;It&#8217;s easy to see the attraction of this idea. Indeed, it remains a common rhetorical theme of the left.&#8221;
Gentile&#8217;s influence strongly impacted left-wing politics over the last century.
D&#8217;Souza points out, &#8220;At the 1984 convention of the Democratic Party, the governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, likened America to an extended family where, through the government, people all take care of each other.&#8221;
He adds, &#8220;Nothing&#8217;s changed. Thirty years later, a slogan of the 2012 Democratic Party convention was, &#8216;The government is the only thing we all belong to.&#8217; They might as well have been quoting Gentile.&#8221;
You can watch the video below:
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Prager U: Is Fascism Right Or Left?

American History

Capitalism

Conservatism

Dinesh D’Souza

Prager University

Socialism

In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M">video</a> that went viral over the Thanksgiving weekend, conservative comedian and commentator Steven Crowder conducts a question and answer session with Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;Alexa&#8221; that shows that the artificial personal assistant is more interested in giving users her &#8220;far-left social justice warrior&#8221; opinion than straightforward facts. The video of the clearly &#8220;editorializing&#8221; responses Alexa provided to simple, direct questions resulted in a flood of conspiracy theories accusing Crowder of &#8220;faking&#8221; the whole thing. In response, on Monday Crowder posted the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKPldVHCi6k&amp;feature=youtu.be">raw footage</a> of the back and forth with Alexa proving that her leftist slant is no &#8220;hoax.&#8221;
Crowder introduces the raw footage (below) by slamming those accusing him of trying to pull off some kind of hoax. No, &#8220;Simon says&#8221; mode wasn&#8217;t on, he explains, and they didn&#8217;t fake Alexa&#8217;s voice or ask Alexa different questions then deceitfully edit them for their purposes. Instead he had simply noticed that the program &#8220;can be incredibly leading&#8221; and &#8220;has a significant far-left bent,&#8221; so he and his producer asked her a few questions and recorded the exchange.
The results included Alexa declaring that there are more than two genders, praising the prophet Muhammad, dismissing Jesus as a &#8220;fictional character,&#8221; and giving a significantly more favorable description of communism than fascism. Below is the edited version Crowder posted Friday:
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Crowder told the Daily Wire in a phone interview that he was genuinely surprised by the pushback on the video. Judging by the strong reaction, people appear to put a lot more trust in Alexa than they should. 
&#8220;Here&#8217;s the thing, I didn&#8217;t plan this,&#8221; said Crowder. &#8220;I&#8217;d heard Alexa say some crazy stuff before, so we just asked her some questions and went with it.&#8221;
Among the various conspiracy theorists, he said, atheists appeared to be the most upset. &#8220;What&#8217;s so funny is the atheists are the ones who are the most angry about. I mean, she said &#8216;Jesus Christ is a fictional character,&#8217; which is exactly what they believe, so you&#8217;d think they&#8217;d be happy about it,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Whoever entertained these conspiracies owes an apology,&#8221; Crowder said in an email. &#8220;And hopefully will learn to trust Alexa a little less.&#8221;
Below is the raw, uncut footage from a single camera proving that Crowder wasn&#8217;t &#8220;faking it&#8221;:
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Crowder: No, My Amazon Alexa Video Wasn’t A Hoax. She’s Really A Far-Left SJW. Here’s Proof.

Christianity

Islam

Steven Crowder

On Monday evening, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro returned to UCLA, his alma mater, where he graduated in 2004 before attending Harvard Law School. He spoke of the rise of campus fascism by the Left, using the theories of the famed 1950&#8217;s Marxist theorist Theodor Adorno culled from his book &#8220;The Authoritarian Personality.&#8221;
Shapiro noted that Adorno sprang from the so-called Frankfurt School, a group of Marxist philosophers from Germany who fled Hitler&#8217;s rise and came to the United States, and who believed that capitalism had infected the West with certain value systems that prevented true happiness and freedom from rising to the fore.
He pointed out that Adorno wanted to draw a distinction between Hitler and Marxism, and tried to obfuscate the fascism of the Left. But, Shapiro noted, Adorno&#8217;s theories described well the Marxist school of thought displayed by the Left on campuses across America.
He began his odyssey into the nine elements of the authoritarianism Adorno spoke of as laid out by Professor Adrian Furnham, professor of psychology at University College in London.
Shapiro started with conventionalism, which some have accused the Right of promulgating with an insistence on bourgeois middle class values. He said that the idea that conventionalism is a concept utilized by the Right was simply not true, adding that conventionalism is about adhering to the moral standard that is promulgated at the time. Ergo, on campuses, students&#8217; obedience to the leftist standards that are prevalent is conventional. He stated, &#8220;Obedience to the Left, obedience to authority is key.&#8221;
Next came authoritarian submission: uncritical acceptance of authority. Shapiro stated, &#8220;On campus, the idea that you have to uncritically accept authority is obviously true. This is why you have speech codes, and conduct codes and every other kind of code . . . it&#8217;s why you have kangaroo courts where due process is not necessary.&#8221;
Third element: authoritarian aggression: a tendency to condemn anyone who violates conventional norms, the idea that a person who has bad manners, habits and breeding can hardly expect to get along with decent people. Shapiro stated that campus thought dictated, &#8220;All people who disagree with the prevailing leftist superstructure of thought, they must be cast out of society.&#8221; No cool-kid parties, no being accepted as a decent person.
Fourth: Anti-intraception: rejection of weakness or sentimentality, the idea that businessman and the manufacturer are much more important to society than the artist and professor. Shapiro said Adorno felt this was one of the keys to authoritarianism, but Adorno missed the underlying structure of thought: that the reason so many authoritarian societies don&#8217;t value the artist and the poet is that the artist and the poet spend so much time attempting to understand beyond boundaries of identity and job description. But the Left does that in terms of intersectionality.
The fifth element: <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/magical-thinking">Superstition</a> and stereotypy: belief in mystical determinants of action and rigid, categorical thinking. Shapiro asked if there was anything more superstitious than gender theory, or environmentalist theory that suppressed dissenting questions.
On to the sixth element: Power and toughness: preoccupation with dominance over others. He pointed out Antifa is obsessed with dominance. Leftists chant mantras such as &#8220;The people united will never be divided!&#8221; &#8220;Whose campus? Our campus!&#8221; Shapiro stated, &#8220;For all the talk about pacifism, the least pacifistic people on campus are the ones who are out there beating up supporters of mine who want to come to my speeches.&#8221;
Seventh element backing authoritarianism: Destructiveness and <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/pessimism">cynicism</a>: a generalized feeling of hostility and <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/anger">anger</a>. He pointed out the Left believes all anger is justified, that their boundaries can never be crossed. He added, &#8220;This generalized feeling of hostility: it doesn&#8217;t have to be justified by statistics; it doesn&#8217;t have to be justified by evidence; it doesn&#8217;t even have to be justified by solid anecdotal evidence that can be backed up by evidence. If you&#8217;re angry, there must be a reason for it and therefore we have to kowtow to your anger. Subjectivity overrules objectivity.&#8221;
The eighth element: projectivity: a tendency to project inner emotions and impulses outward. Shapiro pointed out there is no more conspiratorial group in America today than leftists on college campuses who assert that the economy is rigged against them. The supposed &#8220;white privilege&#8221; mantra: Shapiro quipped, &#8220;People like me are getting together in our Protocol of the Elders of Zion meetings after davening (praying) on Fridays and we are figuring out how to keep the black man down. This is supremely stupid. And not only is it supremely stupid; it&#8217;s supremely counterproductive because it&#8217;s teaching individuals in the freest country in the history of the planet if they work hard, that if they abide by the standards of decency and reason, that they still can&#8217;t get ahead because some conspiracy&#8217;s out there to stop them.&#8221; Shapiro also deconstructed the idea that women are systemically underpaid.
And finally, the ninth element: an overfocus on <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/sex">sex</a>. Shapiro pointed out that the Left that is obsessed with sex. He noted that the Left believes that religious people should be forced to accept leftists&#8217; notions of sex.
Shapiro stated that all of these elements add up to a ripe field for recruitment when it comes to shutting down those who disagree, that intolerance is the ultimate outcome, that dissent has to be silenced.
He concluded:
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The Founding Fathers thought differently from all of this; the Founding Fathers were right. They thought in terms of individualism; they thought that you had a right to speak freely. Not because all opinions are equal, they weren&#8217;t moral relativists; they didn&#8217;t think that all opinions were correct; they didn&#8217;t think that all perspectives were correct; they didn&#8217;t think any of that.
But what the founding fathers did believe is that we are all individually made in the image of God, and that came along with certain inalienable rights, and one of those inalienable rights is the right to exercise our free will and our reason in coming up with arguments. And to express those arguments in order to convince others.
This is something that Founders deeply believed; this is what the First Amendment is all about, and this is what undergirded all the ideas of free government. And they were certain, by the way, if left to our own devices, that social institutions, properly supported by the community, could fill the gap left by a non-tyrannical government. In order to force people to be virtuous, folks like Aristotle talked about having an overbearing government that would basically cause virtue. And the Founding Fathers disagreed with that; they said, &#8220;Well, that ignores the fact that virtue has to be an exercise of free will; that is why we need social institutions to fill those gaps but we need a government that doesn&#8217;t impede people in pursuing their own free will.&#8221;
That is the best way, and American conservatism is not authoritarian. American conservatism is not Hitlerian. American conservatism is not Marxist; it&#8217;s not Authoritarian Leftism. American conservatism is about individualism. It&#8217;s the opposite of the American Left and the campus Left. That&#8217;s why our campuses require hundreds of police officers every time I speak . . . whenever the Left authoritarian mindset predominates on campus it quashes the debate.
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An hour-long Q&amp;A followed. The speech and Q&amp;A can be seen in their entirety below:
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Shapiro At UCLA: Exposing The Fascism Of The Left

Ben Shapiro

Los Angeles (UCLA)

University of California

First, Berkeley tried protesting. Then, they tried pricing the College Republicans out of holding Ben Shapiro&#8217;s speech on campus. Then, Antifa got involved. Once they realized The Daily Wire&#8216;s fearless leader was still showing up, they offered counseling.
Now, the protesters are just flat-out lying.
On Thursday, the Secretary of the Berkeley College Republicans caught Shapiro protesters on video (it&#8217;s not clear whether the protesters are also students), shouting through a bullhorn, accusing Ben of being the &#8220;architect&#8221; and &#8220;founder&#8221; of &#8220;this fascist ideological regime&#8221; (presumably the Trump/Pence Administration).
If it wren&#8217;t caught on tape, it would be too crazy to believe.
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Refuse Fascism: &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro">@benshapiro</a> one of the architects of the foundations of this ideological fascist regime.&#8221; Full blown insanity. <a href="https://t.co/c3k7Qgk1DT">pic.twitter.com/c3k7Qgk1DT</a>
&#8212; Bradley Devlin (@bradleydevlin) <a href="https://twitter.com/bradleydevlin/status/907692557550751744">September 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
The first part of the student&#8217;s speech is inaudible, but you can clearly pick up &#8220;&#8230; on the same day as Ben Shapiro, one of the architects and founders and ideological foundations of this fascist regime is speaking. Ben Shapiro, who says things like &#8216;Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage.'&#8221;
The student goes on to encourage fellow Berkeley denizens to protest Shapiro (or worse &#8212; it&#8217;s not clear exactly what the call to action is): &#8220;We are calling on people of conscience, that in this moment, this is your opportunity to take a stand. We will look back on history, on people who stood by and did nothing, who said these things have nothing to do with me.&#8221;
The speech is clearly off the cuff, but either the protester is openly lying or he has no actual idea who Ben Shapiro is, and is just saying whatever he believes will make the most impact, and rile Berkeley students up to whatever he considers to be the appropriate action.
Ben is scheduled to speak at Berkeley on Thursday and the school is already &#8220;bracing&#8221; for his impact, like he was a category five hurricane off the San Francisco coastline. There will be a &#8220;closed perimeter&#8221; and &#8220;increased police presence,&#8221; while Shapiro delivers his speech, which is, of course, about free speech.

WATCH: Berkeley Protesters Claim Ben Shapiro Is The ‘Architect’ Of A ‘Fascist Regime’

University of California Berkeley

Historically, political violence in the U.S. has ebbed and flowed, but the events in Charlottesville by white supremacists mark a definite escalation in politically-motivated violence perpetrated by the alt-right and radical left.
Why has there been an increase in political violence?
Jennet Kirkpatrick, a professor at Arizona State University, would contend that the media and politicians have contributed to &#8220;the breakdown of political speech. This occurs when citizens and politicians no longer see the point of communicating with others, especially with those they disagree &#8230; violence may appear to be a better response.&#8221; While these fascists remain solely responsible for their acts, this phenomena may indirectly affect these domestic terrorist groups.
The breakdown of free speech is irrefutably true, and most apparent on college campuses like UC Berkeley, where I am currently a student.
Time and time again, experts on political violence use the word &#8220;response&#8221; as a euphemism for politically violent tactics. Reactionary groupthink is essential to fueling action by the hate groups we&#8217;ve seen active in Charlottesville and Berkeley.
The alt-right and extreme left are different sides of the same coin because they participate in these fascistic &#8220;responses.&#8221;
In the case of the alt-right, they are responding in an evil, violent way to expanding political correctness because they perceive it as censorship. The catalyst for the militant left has been the election of Donald Trump.
They each feel threatened by the others&#8217; ideology, and the result has been the intensification of violence for self-proclaimed &#8220;survival.&#8221;
Monday morning, the president explicitly called out white supremacist hate groups in a statement from the White House. However, critics of the president are claiming it is too little too late.
Trump&#8217;s earlier statement condemned political violence on &#8220;all sides&#8221; and insisted &#8220;we are ALL AMERICANS FIRST&#8221; regardless of &#8220;our color, creed, religion or political party.&#8221; One would assume emphasizing national identity over race and recognizing the pattern of political violence in America would be more than satisfactory.
But several leaders of the Left simply refuse to acknowledge this clear message. They label this statement as un-presidential and unsatisfactory, and completely ignored politically-motivated violence from leftists.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href="http://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/896430407872389121">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Of course we condemn ALL that hate stands for. Until @POTUS specifically condemns alt-right action in Charlottesville, he hasnt done his job.&#8221;
Bernie Sanders <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/896486900416077825">tweeted</a>, &#8220;No, Mr. President. This is a provocative effort by Neo-Nazis to foment racism and hatred and create violence. Call it out for what it is.&#8221; I
CNN editor -at-large Chris Cillizza wrote a piece titled &#8220;Donald Trump&#8217;s incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville&#8221;:
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Picking a &#8216;worst&#8217; from Donald Trump&#8217;s statement &#8230; isn&#8217;t easy. But, the emphasis of &#8220;on many sides&#8221; &#8212; Trump repeated that phrase twice &#8212; is, I think, the low ebb.
Both sides don&#8217;t &#8230; get into fistfights with people who don&#8217;t see things their way. They don&#8217;t create chaos and leave a trail of injured behind them.
Arguing that, &#8216;both sides do it&#8217; deeply misunderstands the hate and intolerance at the core of this &#8220;Unite the Right&#8221; rally. These people are bigots. They are hate-filled. &#8230; This is not a &#8220;conservatives say this, liberals say that&#8221; sort of situation. We all should stand against this sort of violent intolerance and work to eradicate it from our society &#8212; whether Democrat, Republican, Independent or not political in the least. &#8230;
There is no &#8220;other side&#8221; doing similar things here.&#8221;
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First and foremost, Cillizza is right about evil bigotry fueling those disgusting Nazis, and unity against violent intolerance in our society is necessary. While it&#8217;s still hard to pick a &#8220;worst&#8221; part of Cillizza&#8217;s analysis, his repetition of the false claim that &#8220;both sides don&#8217;t&#8221; commit acts of hateful, political violence three times takes the cake. Is Cillizza really this willfully ignorant about leftist violence?
However, he wasn&#8217;t alone in this charade. In response to the president&#8217;s statements, CNN pundit Van Jones said, &#8220;there&#8217;s just enough good in that statement that some people are confused why those of us who are concerned are concerned. The problem is the &#8216;many sides.&#8217; Can you imagine if at Fort Hood when there was a Muslim shooter who shot down a bunch of Americans and a president came out and said, &#8216;listen there has been violence on many sides.&#8217; That would not work because you have dead bodies. In the case of Charlottesville, three families are preparing for funerals. That&#8217;s only on one side.&#8221;
Showing up &#8220;with shields and beating people,&#8221; he says (ignoring that Antifa protesters did show up armed) &#8220;is only coming from one side. So when he says its coming from many sides what that does is create a false equivalence. &#8230; But there is only one side that is murderous.&#8221;
The alt-right&#8217;s disgusting views they use as vindication of political violence deserve direct condemnation, and Trump has now done so implicitly and explicitly. However, Trump recognizing &#8220;both sides&#8221; is integral in the fight to put an end to fascistic violence.
The Left must also condemn regressive ideologies leftists use to justify their violent tactics, instead of disingenuously claiming violence is &#8220;one sided&#8221; and emboldening them.
As a Berkeley College Republican, I&#8217;ve personally been victimized by domestic terrorist organizations like Antifa. There is nothing I hate more than the alt-right; however, because I do not adhere to Antifa&#8217;s regressive leftism, I am a target.
During the Berkeley riots, Antifa laid siege to the building the Berkeley College Republicans were locked in. Since then, my friends and I have been threatened with violence, even death, directly, and our information has been doxxed publicly.
This is unmistakably fascistic in nature and mirrors the actions of Hitler&#8217;s brownshirts in the 1930s and other fascistic-nationalist movements. Their political identities would blend perfectly with the nationalist-socialist movements led by Mussolini and Hitler in the early 20th century.
Expert on political extremism at George Washington University, J.J. McNabb, said, &#8220;This is a dangerous game; people are going to die.&#8221; Sadly, three families are left to plan funerals after the tragedy in Charlottesville.

In response to this tragedy, the president&#8217;s call for law and order is long overdue. As someone who has witnessed how radicals on the Left and Right are emboldened by impotent law enforcement, the only solution is a &#8220;swift return to law and order&#8221; in cities like Charlottesville and Berkeley. Any form of political violence is repugnant fascism. America has quashed fascism abroad before, and I am confident we can do it at home.
Bradley Devlin is a student at the University of California Berkeley studying Political Economy and serves as the secretary of the Berkeley College Republicans.

Why The Left Needs To Combat Political Violence On Both Sides

Charlottesville

Racism

Filmmaker and author Dinesh D&#8217;Souza will be appearing on The Ben Shapiro Show on Tuesday at 9 a.m. PST.
D&#8217;Souza will be talking to Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro about his new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N39W2DI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1">The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left</a>, which is slated for release on Monday. D&#8217;Souza is pushing back against the Left&#8217;s narrative that President Trump and his supporters are fascists.
It has long been a slur from the Left that fascism is a sin of the Right, when in actuality fascism is a left-wing ideology at its core. <a href="https://www.conservativebookclub.com/book/the-big-lie-exposing-the-nazi-roots-of-the-american-left">D&#8217;Souza&#8217;s book</a> exposes the leftist roots in fascism and the Left&#8217;s love affair with the brutal ideology until it became indefensible:
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D&#8217;Souza is also known for his blockbuster films <a href="http://hillarysamericathemovie.com/">Hillary&#8217;s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/2016-Obamas-America-Dinesh-DSouza/dp/B0094V8OXG">2016: Obama&#8217;s America</a>, both of which exposed the radical nature of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. His <a href="https://www.conservativebookclub.com/authors/dinesh-dsouza">bestselling books</a> include The Roots of Obama&#8217;s Rage and Illiberal Education.
Before his work in the sphere of political writing and filmmaking, D&#8217;Souza was a policy analyst for the Reagan administration. He was also the president of <a href="https://www.tkc.edu/">The King&#8217;s College</a> from 2010 to 2012 and has worked for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as a John M. Olin fellow.
You&#8217;re not going to want to miss his interview with Ben Shapiro on August 1.
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A new video has emerged that appears to show Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan personally ordering his security detail to attack anti-regime protesters assembled on U.S. soil outside of the Turkish ambassador&#8217;s residence.
Watch as Erdogan, sitting in a tinted black Mercedes, gives orders to his bodyguards moments before they leave the embassy compound and enter American soil to pummel Kurdish, Yazidi, and Armenian demonstrators protesting peacefully against the human rights abuses of the Turkish regime.
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It seems Erdogan (inside the car) ordered his security detail to beat up protesters in Washington D.C. (v <a href="https://twitter.com/VOANews">@voanews</a>) <a href="https://t.co/8dIli00xNV">pic.twitter.com/8dIli00xNV</a>
&#8212; Mahir Zeynalov (@MahirZeynalov) <a href="https://twitter.com/MahirZeynalov/status/865301089867923456">May 18, 2017</a></blockquote>
What is definitively clear is that Erdogan stepped out of his vehicle to watch his thugs brawl against both D.C. Metropolitan police and peaceful demonstrators.
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HUGE: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Erdogan?src=hash">#Erdogan</a> got out of his car to watch his bodyguards brutally assault protesters
Read more: <a href="https://t.co/1GUuGSwHuO">https://t.co/1GUuGSwHuO</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TwitterKurds?src=hash">#TwitterKurds</a> <a href="https://t.co/YFyB5EFgje">pic.twitter.com/YFyB5EFgje</a>
&#8212; Alex Rubinstein (@RealAlexRubi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/865301504839778305">May 18, 2017</a></blockquote>
This new video evidence adds further fuel to the diplomatic row that began Tuesday. As The Daily Wire <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16581/congress-demands-criminal-charges-against-erdogans-joshua-yasmeh">reported</a>, Congress has already called for criminal charges to be brought against the members of the Turkish president&#8217;s security detail involved in the brutal beating of American residents exercising their constitutionally-granted First Amendment right. The U.S. State Department also delivered a harshly-worded statement against the Turkish government, expressing serious concern about the behavior of Erdogan&#8217;s men.
But despite outrage from the United States, the Turks have refused to apologize. Adding insult to injury, a statement released by the Turkish embassy blames the victims of the attack.
&#8220;The violence and the injuries were the result of this unpermitted, provocative demonstration,&#8221; reads the shockingly defiant statement.
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Turkish Embassy in Washington released a statement on the violence outside the Ambassador&#8217;s residence while Erdo&#287;an was visiting <a href="https://t.co/MxtfzJ6jVo">pic.twitter.com/MxtfzJ6jVo</a>
&#8212; Rag&#305;p Soylu (@ragipsoylu) <a href="https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/864984611440427008">May 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
Apparently, &#8220;your Kurdish freedom flag was too large&#8221; is the new &#8220;your skirt was too short.&#8221;

WATCH: Turkish Dictator Erdogan Appears To Order His Bodyguards To Attack Protesters On AMERICAN SOIL — Then Watches The Beatdown

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Ann Coulter was scheduled to speak at the University of California at Berkeley. The Young Americans Foundation had put together the blockbuster event, and the university had approved it.
Then the fascists arrived.
And their leftist enablers allowed the fascists to win.
First, the university cancelled the event &#8211; refusing to abide by Coulter&#8217;s request that they inform the police to act against violent protesters against her. Then, after a firestorm, Berkeley proposed that Coulter speak a week later, when school was out of session. When Coulter refused and said she would show up anyway at the time and date scheduled, the university said it would not provide a forum; Coulter originally responded by saying she would speak in the plaza, but she finally cancelled the event because of threat of violence. Young Americans Foundation said they could not &#8220;jeopardize the safety of its staff or students&#8221; by participating in the event. Berkeley College Republicans also backed out.
The university&#8217;s chancellor, Nicholas Dirks, put out a statement, explaining, &#8220;This University has two non-negotiable commitments, one to Free Speech, the other to the safety of our campus community members, their guests, and the public. In that context, we cannot ignore or deny what is a new reality. Groups and individuals from the extreme ends of the political spectrum have made clear their readiness and intention to utilize violent tactics in support or in protest of certain speakers at UC Berkeley&#8230;We cannot wish away or pretend that these threats do not exist.
The university said that it would be impossible for the police department to &#8220;simply step in and stop violent confrontations,&#8221; adding &#8220;This is a University, not a battlefield.&#8221; The university said it would not &#8220;allow our students, other members of the campus community, and the public to be needlessly endangered by permitting an event to be held in a venue that our police force does not believe to be protectable.&#8221;
The police chief, Andrew Greenwood, told the Berkeley City Council, &#8220;Intervention requires a major commitment of resources, a significant use of force, and carries with it the strong likelihood of harming those who are not committing a crime.&#8221;
This is asinine.
Here&#8217;s the truth: police have an obligation to maintain law and order. Period. It is the job of the public university not to discriminate based on viewpoint &#8211; and allowing a backdoor discriminatory heckler&#8217;s veto, just because hard-core leftists are violent and conservatives aren&#8217;t, is disgusting and violative of First Amendment freedoms. The rule here is simple: police need to do what they need to do to stop violence on their campuses, at whatever cost is necessary. That is their purpose. Any student who participates in property destruction or non-self-defense violence should be summarily expelled.
But that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening. In reality, administrations across the country are using the presence of leftist rioters as a sort of stalking horse for their own politics. When I spoke at California State University at Los Angeles, the administration attempted to cancel my event; when I said I would show up anyway, they uncancelled it an hour beforehand, but reportedly told police officers not to intervene to ensure that students could attend the event unmolested. The result: a near-riot on campus, including students trapped in the auditorium and told they could not be protected if they ventured outside. When I spoke at the University of Wisconsin, I was told that the police had been instructed to break up the event if they were forced to remove protesters forcibly &#8211; in other words, the only way the event would go forward as planned was with the good grace of protesters, who stood and blocked the event for twenty minutes. I was pre-emptively banned from DePaul University (a private university, so different rules apply), supposedly over safety concerns &#8211; and I was told that I would be arrested if I set foot on campus. No protesters showed up when I did, but I was faced with the prospect of an evening at Cook County jail if I violated the non-existent protesters&#8217; sense of right and wrong.
Similar situations have arisen at Berkeley and Middlebury College among others.
Fascists are winning. And they&#8217;re winning the same way they&#8217;ve always won: through outside pressure, combined with feckless and malevolent administration. Where is Governor Jerry Brown and the National Guard, if this is just some sort of basic safety issue? Does anyone truly believe that Berkeley would have cancelled an event for Ta-Nehisi Coates if a bunch of white supremacist protesters had shown up threatening violence? Of course not. They&#8217;d tell the cops to knock some heads together.
But they won&#8217;t do that with Antifa, because that would violate the politics of the university and the city. So we now have a major public university able to write the First Amendment out of existence for conservatives on the basis of safety. That&#8217;s a dangerous precedent, and even the leftist California courts should intervene to stop such tyranny.

FASCISTS WIN: Coulter Cancels Event After Berkeley Refuses To Stop Anti-Conservative Violence

After his <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14116/middlebury-college-protests-closed-mindedness-and-erielle-davidson">event at Middlebury College</a> caused riots that put a liberal professor in a neck brace, Dr. Charles Murray could face another hostile crowd at Columbia University. According to The College Fix, flyers advertising his event at Barnard College got <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31620/">defaced</a> with devils horns, expletives, and claims that he is a white supremacist. 
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A spokesperson at Barnard College told The College Fix the following in response to the defaced flyers:
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The Barnard College Code of Conduct prohibits &#8216;attempted or actual theft of and/or damage to property of the College, or property of a member of the College community, or other personal or public property, on or off campus. Barnard College stands by its code of conduct and expects all students to abide by its contents.
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The spokesperson also stopped short of condemning students at the college for vandalizing the flyers, saying that the campus is an &#8220;open campus&#8221; and that even outsiders could be responsible.
Murray&#8217;s event, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/are-elites-to-blame-for-the-rise-of-donald-trump-featuring-charles-murray-tickets-32608443733">titled</a> &#8220;Are Elites to Blame for the Rise of Donald Trump,&#8221; is scheduled for March 23 at Havemeyer Hall.
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Students At Columbia Plaster Devil Horns On Charles Murray Posters

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Columbia University

As part of its &#8220;inclusive language&#8221; policy, a university in the United Kingdom passed a guidance that bans several phrases from being said on campus. According to <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/03/02/university-bans-phrases-right-hand-man-gentlemans-agreement/">The Telegraph</a>, Cardiff Metropolitan University declared that only &#8220;gender-neutral&#8221; terms should be utilized on campus. Some of the words that are banned include but are not limited to: &#8220;manpower,&#8221; forefathers,&#8221; &#8220;mankind,&#8221; and &#8220;sportsmanship.&#8221; A student who utilizes such words could violate the school&#8217;s harassment policy, resulting in disciplinary actions against them.
Here is the list the university provided from its Code of Practice on using Inclusive Language:
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Forefathers &#8211; Ancestors, forebears
Gentleman&#8217;s agreement &#8211; Unwritten agreement, agreement based on trust
Girls (for adults) &#8211; women
Housewife &#8211; Shopper, consumer, homemaker (depends on context)
Manpower &#8211; Human resources, labour force, staff, personnel, workers, workforce
Man or mankind &#8211; Humanity, humankind, human race, people
Man-made &#8211; Artificial, manufactured, synthetic
Man in the street, common man &#8211; Average/ordinary/typical citizen/person
Right-hand man &#8211; Chief assistant
Sportsmanship &#8211; Fairmess, good humour, sense of fair play
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Jillian Kay Melchior of Heat Street <a href="https://heatst.com/culture-wars/university-bans-discriminatory-words-like-manpower-and-christian-name-violators-face-punishment/?mod=sm_tw_post">said</a> that Cardiff Metropolitan University is not the only British university that implemented these &#8220;inclusive language&#8221; policies and that many universities in the United States have done the same thing. For example, Princeton University <a href="https://heatst.com/culture-wars/princeton-man/">banned</a> the word &#8220;man&#8221; last August in an attempt to create more inclusive language.
Once again, the left is suppressing freedom of speech in order to create their dystopian society. Once they create policies that police one&#8217;s speech, then it will justify acting in a manner to punish those who fall outside the reservation. Social justice, in actuality, represents a new manifestation of leftist fascism. Ironically, these are the same &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; who are expressing moral outrage at President Trump.
Projection much?
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This University Just Banned The Word ‘Manpower’ For Being Sexist

Free Speech

Political Correctness

Princeton University

United Kingdom

The Student Life, the Claremont Colleges&#8217; sole weekly newspaper left-wing tabloid, <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/6492/">published</a> an article on February 24 titled &#8220;Milo&#8217;s Hate Speech is Not Free Speech.&#8221; Scripps College freshman Tiara Sharma discussed her contempt for those who disagreed with those who censored Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley and stated that individuals who possessed his ideals should never be welcomed at the Claremont Colleges.
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In the aftermath of the Berkeley riots that forced him to cancel his speaking engagement, I had many conversations with people who claimed to condemn Yiannopoulos&#8217;s ideologies, but defended his right to disseminate them on college campuses. My response to these people is simple: college campuses are not, and should not be, responsible for financially supporting figures like Yiannopoulos whose politics are founded upon the marginalization of certain identities. Our campuses cannot host public figures who claim that &#8220;gay rights have made us dumber,&#8221; call transgender people &#8220;mentally ill,&#8221; or claim that rape culture is a &#8220;fantasy.&#8221;
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To justify her claim that the Claremont Colleges should follow that course, she alluded to Scripps College&#8217;s decision to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/08/scripps-college-uninvites-george-will-because-of-column-on-sexual-assault/?utm_term=.b92f70fbb749">disinvite</a> syndicated columnist George Will three years ago for writing a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html?utm_term=.e4ab308f8836">piece</a> about how campus progressives turned into a coddled community of safe spaces and trigger warnings while alluding to the &#8220;college rape epidemic&#8221; <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/12777/9-things-you-need-know-about-campus-rape-epidemic-aaron-bandler">myth</a>. 
Sharma also expressed grievances with Simon &amp; Schuster and the Conservative Political Action Conference, observing that a pedophilia controversy was necessary revoke Yiannopoulos&#8217;s book deal and his keynote address. She concludes her sophomoric article with the following assertion:
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By continuing to fund speakers like Yiannopoulos, colleges like our own are not advocating for free speech; they are encouraging a type of ill-informed, hateful discourse that has no place on our campuses. If our colleges want to flaunt diversity on their brochures and websites, they should be willing to address the needs of their diverse students. They are entirely responsible for assuring that white supremacists, sexists, and bigots masquerading under the label &#8216;political pundit&#8217; do not impinge upon the lived experiences of their students. 
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According to Sharma, &#8220;hate speech&#8221; does not constitute free speech. However, the First Amendment of the Constitution does not outline such exceptions and it is unfortunate that The Student Life does not give its writers a crash course on the very constitutional right that gives them the ability to publish such unadulterated garbage:
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Naturally, I wrote the following comment dissenting from Sharma&#8217;s assertions:
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In short, I stated that the First Amendment never had a &#8220;hate speech&#8221; exception because hatred is in the eye of the beholder. If such an exception existed, then snowflake millennials like Sharma would justify silencing individuals like Milo Yiannopoulos, George Will, or Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro. I also stated that whomever sponsors her education is getting a terrible return on their investment if Sharma cannot even properly read the First Amendment. It calls into question what she is learning inside the classroom (nothing insightful, I assume).
It does not surprise me that The Student Life and the Claremont Colleges peddle such fascistic and tyrannical views. When I was a student at Pitzer College, I was an opinion columnist for The Student Life as I was transitioning from a disgruntled classical liberal to a conservative. In my <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/3557/">first article</a>, I wrote that the student body should have open, fruitful dialogue on controversial topics; using the Arab-Israeli conflict as an example. In response, people on campus equated my pro-Israel position with those who harbor sympathies to the Ku Klux Klan. I also <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/4081/">warned</a> that the liberal left&#8217;s stranglehold on campus dialogue would ruin the Claremont Colleges&#8217; reputation as a beacon of liberalism in academia. A year later, I wrote a strongly-worded <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/4127/">article</a> slamming the left&#8217;s anti-Semitic crusade demonizing Israel, resulting in a few individuals calling on TSL&#8203;&#8217;s editors to fire me for having the audacity to present an opinion that did not fit the leftist collective in Claremont.
Since I graduated, The Student Life transformed from being a reasonably moderate voice committed to intrepid campus journalism and including a diversity of ideas into a leftist rag where ill-informed progressive students air out their nearly unlimited grievances at <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/5605/">commencement speakers</a>, <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/5288/">Monsanto</a>, <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/6467/">Birthright</a>, and <a href="http://tsl.news/opinions/6291/">President Trump</a>. While their editors attempt to include dissenting voices, their readership takes such significant issue with it that the newspaper functions as a de facto echo chamber of the campus left. Their decline as a reliable source also allowed <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/">The Claremont Independent</a>, the independently run conservative news magazine, to overtake the TSL as Claremont&#8217;s most widely read news source.
Articles like Sharma&#8217;s continue to demonstrate how college students are subjected to indoctrination that not only vilifies our system of governance, the laws of our land, and the individuals in power, but it also creates a community that preaches tolerance while not understanding what the word means. &#8220;Tolerance&#8221; does not disappear the moment somebody projects an opinion you strongly dislike. However, the community that The Student Life fosters with its readership and writers promulgates the very victimhood culture that rationalized Sharma&#8217;s fascistic belief that silencing dissent is a worthwhile, socially &#8220;just&#8221; endeavor. This is a dangerous precedent. It led to the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-claremont-marches-20151112-story.html">deplorable protests</a> that resulted in Dean Mary Spellman&#8217;s resignation from Claremont McKenna. It also justified <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/3210-2/">vilifying</a> conservative people of color as &#8220;shady.&#8221; It gives students a &#8220;principled&#8221; reason to <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/safe-spaces-segregate-the-claremont-colleges/">segregated safe spaces</a> based on the color of their skin and <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/cmc-funds-racially-exclusive-program-to-fight-racism/">campus programs that specifically cater to specific races</a> instead of the entirety of the community.
The victim hierarchy that takes absolutely no responsibility for an individual&#8217;s failures or inability to think rationally when they get challenged by the real world&#8217;s dilemmas spells doom for our country. This should not be the kind of community that any college campus should foster. Unfortunately, The Student Life only ensures that students from the Claremont College seem mentally and intellectually unfit to take the bull by the horns and make a substantial impact in the real world.
There are <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/pitzer-college-vp-defends-racist-ras-despite-college-presidents-condemnation/">several</a> <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/hispanic-pitzer-student-criticized-for-denying-the-word-trump-is-hate-speech/">reasons</a> <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/pitzer-senate-yacht-club-is-too-offensive/">why</a> <a href="http://claremontindependent.com/pitzer-senate-dreamcatchers-foundation-tabled-indefinitely-due-to-cultural-appropriation/">I refuse</a> to donate to my alma mater. The Student Life&#8217;s opinion section and its blatant political bend in its news reporting display most of them without fail.
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Claremont Colleges’ Newspaper: ‘Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech’

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