About
Content
Store
Forum

Rebirth of Reason
War
People
Archives
Objectivism

Post to this threadMark all messages in this thread as readMark all messages in this thread as unread


Post 0

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 9:28amSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Oh, Canada!

I've given more than 100 college speeches, and not once has one of my speeches been shut down at any point. Even the pie-throwing incident at the University of Arizona didn't break up the event. I said, "Get them!" and the college Republicans got them, and then I continued with my rambling, hate-filled diatribe—I mean, my speech.

So we've run this experiment more than 100 times.

Only one college speech was ever met with so much mob violence that the police were forced to cancel it: The one that was preceded by a letter from the university provost accusing me of hate speech.

(To add insult to injury, Francois didn't even plan to attend my speech because Tuesday is his bikini wax night.)

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech—which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech—is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

Either Francois goes to jail or the Human Rights Commission is a hoax and a fraud.

Post 1

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 1:57pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Here's a little anecdote. About 20 years ago I took a night school class in electrical engineering at the University of Ottawa. The prof told us that at one time he had been at a reception at the university for the then Minister of Communications. He was introduced to the Minister and the Minister asked him, "What do you do at the university?" He replied that he was a professor of electrical engineering. The august Minister replied, "What has that got to do with communications?"

What a dork! Can you believe what a jumble this guy's mind was in?  It was all about projecting the government's agenda.

Here's another one.

I attended a debate at the University of Toronto where Leonard Peikoff and John Ridpath took on Jill Vickers and Gerald Caplan, both flaming leftists. When asked by Ridpath why individuals should be burdened with practically all the rest of humanity's troubles she said, "Well, your mother changed your diapers, didn't she?"

The mind boggles at the emptiness of the minds of people in positions of responsibility.

Sam



Post 2

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 2:29pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
I have that debate on tape. Do you know if you are on camera at any point?

Post 3

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 2:47pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
I doubt it but I was up high and looking left. If it was before 1981 I didn't have a beard.

Sam


Sanction: 12, No Sanction: 0
Sanction: 12, No Sanction: 0
Sanction: 12, No Sanction: 0
Post 4

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 5:20pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
this the debate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCxHEZmZJ8

Post 5

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 5:39pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Yes, this is excellent:

Peikoff and Ridpath vs Pelosi and Franken, 1984



Post 6

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 7:38pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
I watched most of the segments and apart from the washing underwear comment by Vickers near the start it surely isn't the way I remember it ... but that was 26 years ago. Maybe there was some thing else somewhere but I distinctly remember the audience hooting at a changing diaper comment.

Maybe I am getting senile.

Sam


Post to this thread


User ID Password or create a free account.