When will you quit wetting your pants over this? I spent 4 years in college and no one "indoctrinated" me about anything and I seriously doubt that it is happening to a discernible degree now. If the masked "Black Bloc" folks with their flammable bombs etc. hadn't shown up yesterday then we wouldn't be talking about this today.
The university blamed "150 masked agitators" for the unrest, saying they had come to campus to disturb an otherwise peaceful protest.
Two Berkeley College Republicans "were attacked while conducting an interview" on the campus on Thursday, UC Berkeley also said in a prepared statement. The attackers, who were not affiliated with the university, were taken into custody by UC Berkeley police.
Black-clad protesters wearing masks threw commercial-grade fireworks and rocks at police. Some even hurled Molotov cocktails that ignited fires. They also smashed windows of the student union center on the Berkeley campus where the Yiannopoulos event was to be held.
At least six people were injured. Some were attacked by the agitators -- who are a part of an anarchist group known as the "Black Bloc" that has been causing problems in Oakland for years, said Dan Mogulof, UC Berkeley spokesman.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley/
You are but one person so your personal experience has little relevance to the discussion. This is happening on campuses all over the country.
Secondly, I am sure there were agitators there. But two things are important. One, there were over 1,000 people there. Were students also involved? and two, didn't Cal Berkeley have a responsibility to provide security knowing what was likely to happen?
Here is what was said prior to Milo's scheduled talk:
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin
tweeted that Milo’s “hate speech” was not “welcome in our community.” UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks
said that the university not only opposed Milo’s views, but also his ostensibly harmful presence on campus.
Consider this, from the Berkeley campus newspaper, the
Daily Californian: while there were three arrests made Wednesday — two in connection with violence earlier in the day — only one of them was made by campus police at the protest itself, despite the violence. As for the city police, “[a]ccording to Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Officer Byron White, the city of Berkeley did not make any arrests in connection with the protests Wednesday night,” the
Daily Californian reported.
In an
open letter sent Jan. 3 to high-level UC Berkeley administrators, 13 faculty members
urged the cancellation of his upcoming talk, and many more have since signed on to the letter.
“Yiannopoulos’ deplorable views pass from protected free speech to incitement, harassment and defamation once they publicly target individuals in his audience or on campus, creating conditions for concrete harm and actually harming students through defamatory and harassing actions,” the faculty letter said. “Such actions are protected neither by free speech nor by academic freedom.”
A student reporter who witnessed the Berkeley riots says he heard people in the “peaceful” crowd who were glad that violent agitators had succeeded in shutting down a conservative speaker’s appearance. From the
NY Times:
It was clear early on that the majority of violent protesters most likely were not from the campus. Still, in the aftermath, I heard people say that peaceful demonstrations would not have succeeded in preventing Mr. Yiannopoulos from speaking.
Cal Berkeley shares culpability is this disaster.
