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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Defends Ann Coulter [View all]kcr
(15,315 posts)If you defend inflicting her damage on students who simply want to persue an education, to me, it doesn't matter. Colleges should be a place for all students regardless of their background to feel safe because it is integral to American society as an equalizer. The fact that Bernie takes this position is particularly bad, IMO. He wants to make college free for all. Yet doesn't care to make that a place that's welcoming for all persons regardless of their background. Hate speakers target college for a reason. His stance makes it so that colleges will be yet another bastion of the privileged. That is the hate speakers' intention and if free speech absolutists who don't understand how the first amendment actually works want to hand them over? It doesn't matter if they actually agree. It's irrelevant. They are defending the hate speakers.