Free Speech?

[Weltall]

But the line between those things is in some cases closer than you admit... like, Russia clearly goes over the line -- people get arrested for speaking (like Yukos -- he might well be guilty, but lots of people are of that and he was only arrested because of his anti-Putin views...). But some still can talk. But no one can hear them because no national media covers it... sure, that's a much more extreme case than this. And the speaker there could make his points elsewhere and also get seen by some. But not that audience... and it's just very rude and inappropriate to do what they did. You shouldn't be condoning such behavior.

I'm not condoning it. Did you not read what I posted above?

And anyway, the way you phrased it originally you sounded like you thought he deserved it for making a left-wing political speech at a university commencement. So it's bad for him to do that but not really that bad if it's a conservative doing the same thing?

Well, the ideological side of me is thrilled he got drowned out, of course. He's wrong. He spoke the wrong stuff to the wrong audience and got what he deserved. That's life. As I said, no one is guaranteed the right to be heard. You said before that you disagree with white supremacists but respect their right to speak. What if they decided to speak at a black church? What about filibustering? It's the same damn thing. Rude, crude, but it's a part of free speech.

Besides, I also stated above that conservatives, especially at predominantly liberal universities and colleges, are the targets of repression worse than this. No one really seems to care about it, though.

How would you like giving a speech to a audience and just after you got the nerves to speak but You were boo and taunted I think you would be upset and felt in some way that your rights were violated.

I would definitely be upset, but I am intelligent enough to know that my rights were not violated, and I would not be stupid enough to make that claim.

Now, you both keep getting into whether interrupting the liberal was right or wrong. That, I repeat again, is not the point. It was wrong for them to interrupt him, however, they had the right to do it. The only question is, was free speech violated?

Can I get a straight answer?