metalhead
Angry Bartender
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It's not meant as "well the other side does it too", but as a note that the problem is that way too many (and popular) speakers on such issues are borderline moronic and/or trolls, so the Entire debate perpetuates such issues. Ie this isn't a one-off, with Milo being the one problem you have to solve. Others will take his position if he is banned from speaking.
It is like focusing on a person having the flu, or even ebola, when you allow other people with ebola variants in the same room already, and their audience also has ebola, etc.
Well if that's the case, then you don't need speakers espousing those views on college campuses, period. And that goes for either side, of any issue - if you can't book people who can speak intelligently on an issue and invite probing questions about their views, then you shouldn't hold an event. I don't think it does anyone any good to have unintelligent trolls speaking at official events on college campuses. Like I said, they can go speak on a street corner if they just want to spout trolling nonsense, and then they have to deal with the consequences of being unintelligent trolls.
The issue at hand is the use of violence in protests.
That's an issue, but I'd say there can be more than one issue in a thread at a given time.
If damage to property prevented much greater harm coming to the undocumented and/or trans student(s) at Berkeley, then it was totally worth it. Bank of America will somehow find a way to survive the damage at its branch.