In the lead-up to conservative commentator Ben Shapiro’s speech at the University of California, Berkeley, last week, a Berkeley professor absolutely excoriated Shapiro, her school’s administration — as well as the present legal interpretation of the First Amendment, complaining that it “fetishizes free speech.”
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, the Chancellor’s Professor of Medical Anthropology, also wrote in her op-ed that she considers hate speech an “act of violence” — all while calling Shapiro a “schmuck,” a “racist, sexist, misogynist, Islamaphobic jerk,” and a “little bully right wing prodigy.”
Scheper-Hughes slammed the school’s extensive security measures — which included barricades near the event venue and a heavy law-enforcement presence — calling them “ridiculous, overkill,” and “insulting to our student body.” Yet in the same sentence she added that those very measures are “an unintentional dog whistle to our students to riot.” – READ MORE
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