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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Defends Ann Coulter [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)... any of the public universities in Arkansas, I've probably got to hope that universities can invite politically disagreeable people in this region of the country without having threats of violence shut down an appearance -- and that people would criticize the people threatening violence. Ann would get an invite easily here.
To me it's a matter of avoiding hypocrisy, or as Bernie put it, "sign(s) of intellectual weakness". Now, I'm going to say right here that Coulter's target demographic eats everything she says like it's the Gospel, but if having her speak is so threatening to an actual thinking person's ability to refute her verbal excrement with sources and logic.... it IS a sign of intellectual weakness. In fact, that was a very subtle barb to people who actually buy Ann's crap, when thought of that way. They're the ones intellectually weak.