“Another far-right speaker is coming to UC Davis. How should the community respond?” read the headline on a March 14 Sacramento Bee opinion piece by the Bee’s “opinion assistant” Hannah Holzer, a UC Davis graduate.
The speaker is a “vocal transphobe and Donald Trump fanatic,” Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA). Kirk’s visit is “upsetting and unwelcome, especially in light of nationwide attacks on the transgender community and on broader LGBTQ+ rights.” In addition, UC Davis has an “abysmal history” of public events that have gone wrong.
In 2011, cops were “pepper spraying students” but Holzer fails to recall that those students were protesting tuition hikes by University of California bosses. Holzer quotes UC Davis English professor Joshua Clover, who has “been targeted by TPUSA, in a recent op-ed for the university’s newspaper.” The Sacramento Bee opinion assistant fails to provide the back story.
In 2019, convicted criminal Kevin Limbaugh gunned down Natalie Corona, 22, a rising star in the Davis police department. The community hailed Corona as a hero and thousands of people, including police officers from across the country, attended a memorial service for the slain officer.
A photo of Corona holding the “thin blue line” flag went viral on social media. The UC Davis campus Ethnic and Cultural Affairs Commission proclaimed, “this flag represents an attempt by law enforcement to undermine the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Professor Clover, who moonlights as Communist poet, was “thankful that every living cop will one day be dead, some by their own hand, some by others, too many of old age.” In addition “it’s easier to shoot cops when their backs are turned, no?” but there was still more to it. “People think that cops need to be reformed. They need to be killed.”
UC Davis condemned Clover’s statement while upholding his right to free speech. With Charlie Kirk at the ready, Holzer accuses the campus of “shilling for unequivocal freedom of speech” and seeks “a more proactive approach,” such as cancelation of Kirk’s speaking engagement, but there’s a problem.
“Even calling for legal reform to curb the trend of fascists speaking on campus,” Holzer writes, “opens the door to First Amendment restrictions that could have huge, unintended ramifications.”
An earlier version of Holzer’s column “included a reference to trans people that Charlie Kirk has strongly denied.” That was the claim that that Kirk has called for the “lynching of trans people,” and should therefore be canceled from speaking at UC Davis.
Charlie Kirk never said any such thing. Campus officials’ acknowledged Kirk’s right to speak and on Tuesday allowed the event to proceed, with protesters on hand.
As the Davis Enterprise reported, protesters chanted, “Queer lives matter,” “Love is love,” “Fuck all fascists,” “Fuck Chuck,” “Trans rights are human rights,” and so forth. The story quotes a passerby who said “they’re yelling at an empty street.”
Protesters clashed with police, smashed windows and blocked people from entering the building where the event was held. “Not a peaceful protest at all,” tweeted Elon Musk and there were at least two arrests, one for threats on a police officer. No word whether Communist poet Joshua Clover had inspired the protester. Even without the professor’s presence, the event did prove educational.
The true fascists, as Charlie Kirk has noted, are the leftists who seek to prevent others from speaking. The fascists indulge violence because they are afraid of debate and hostile to the First Amendment.
If anyone has a problem with a man’s claim to be a woman, a woman’s claim to be a man, that does not mean that the claimant is therefore oppressed. That is something the “alphabet people,” as Dave Chappelle calls the LGBTQ crowd, need to understand. An ongoing jihad against reality does not confer accredited victim status. Nobody has a special right to silence comedians, conservative activists, and radio hosts.
Hannah Holzer fails to understand that newspapers have no constitutional right to publish falsehoods. Charlie Kirk did not call for “trans people” to be lynched. That was “defamation and libel,” Kirk told reporters, and unless corrected, “We will sue unless it is corrected. Left-wing rags like the SacBee are allowed to platform lies against conservatives and get away with it. Time for lawfare.”
In similar style, UC Davis chancellor Gary May charged that Kirk had “advocated for violence against transgender individuals.” Kirk responded, “I’ve never done that. That is a lie. We might sue you for that.” As Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
Professor Clover, meanwhile, appears to have no second thoughts about the need to kill police officers. The author of Red Epic, and director of the Marxist Institute for Research, Clover remains on the UC Davis faculty in the departments of English and Comparative Literature.
At UC Davis preventing a conservative from speaking, or anyone else who might not be a hardcore marxist fascist extremist = freedom of speech.
Have no fear, the spinmeisters will find a way to effectively spin it.
With a compliant press carrying water for them, the weasels at UC Davis would have to put effort into ruining the spin.
(The low-octane fools, however, are so cosseted, that they wallow in a complete lack of imagination. So they just might screw up the lie/spin.)
It’s an implementation of Marcuse’s doctrine of “repressive tolerance,” a self-serving gussied up justification totalitarianism. Marcuse said that everything from the Left must be tolerated but nothing from the Right should be. The idea was that even the most innocent idea from the Right could produce a Hitler so the expression of everything from the Right must be suppressed and not allowed to escape into the public square.
Dear Kassandra, Adof Hitler and his “Mein Kampf” is a brutal version of National Socialism based on racial intolerance. Hitler is closer to the political left. His philosophy and actions are not right wing.
Yes, there is National Socialism and International Socialism.
Don’t forget Soviet Socialism – which was allied with National Socialist Germany in the SHlTler / Stalin Pact of 1939.
Thanks Lloyd. UC Davis was nice in the 1970s (or maybe I was just naive). They had a nice little area next to campus (I can’t remember the name) where the students prepared healthy meals and such on a volunteer basis. It must have been in the 1990s when I noticed the left was taking over.
UC Davis was famous for growing carrots back in the 70’s. They’ve come a long way, just like Michelle.
STUDENTS NEED TO DEMAND ENFORCEMENT OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT RULES THAT EVERY UNIVERSITY HAS!
Tomi Lahren’s speech at UNM this past September was shut down after twenty minutes. (I was there inside when normally, I watch protesters, my expertise. I talked to UNM PD before the event and they told me the doors were locked and they wouldn’t be allowed in. I only entered the event minutes before she spoke. I looked the hundred protesters outside first and they were outside so I wanted to hear her to see what all the fuss was about. SHOULDN’T REPORTERS LISTEN TO THEM, QUOTE THEM, AND THEN ATTACK WHAT THEY SAID? REPORTERS ARE OUTSIDE TO COVER THE PROTESTERS AND WHAT THEY SAY THE SPEAKER HAS SAID???)
Lahren was mentioning the open border when the MOB easily walked in. (Youtube). They put holes in the walls due to kicking and pounding. Police were being pushed. TWO FIRE ALARMS went off. (I called 911 three times due to the mob trying to break in. I was in front watching if they’d come in through the kitchen and then to attack her. IT WAS BAD AND LOUD. UNM PD escorted her out. Women were crying. Students were huddled together crying.
NOTHING Lehren said was out of norm that we’ve heard on every MSM newscast and Trump speech.
I WENT INTO ACTION. CODE OF CONDUCT RULES that were broken were sent to the President, Dean of Students, with photos of the damage. Links to YOUTUBE videos. Filed police reports. Demanded all police reports with the Student Union not filing one. Pushed officers, no reports.
OUR STUDENTS ARE WIMPS and they are the ones that need to stand up for themselves. Kirk came and police were everywhere. A Youtube video of him standing on the second-floor balcony is of him waving to the protesters. WHAT DID HE SAY IN THE SPEECH? NO REPORTER? WOULDN’T THAT VERIFY WHAT THE PROTESTERS ARE SCREAMING ABOUT?
WERE THE SPEECH POLICE there in this latest Kirk appearance to then make headlines with his every word?
“in light of nationwide attacks on the transgender community”
I must have missed this news.
I caught that too, lol. But then in Florida they’re claiming it’s alphabet genocide if children having themselves neutered is outlawed. Destroying children’s ability to ever reproduce isn’t? Talk about a clown show, the video of their comments in the public hearing showed just how delusional and mentally unbalanced they are. One guy pretending to be a woman even shot himself up with something at the podium.
All those who try to shout down or storm the stage of a Conservative Speaker should al be defendants in a big Lawsuit against the Campus that allow it
As I have said many times….
We are a nation bereft of its balls.
All of this lunacy rolls downhill from this fact.
No balls, no nation.
Pretty simple really.
Wait….. pretty sure we’d find a pile of them outside the “gender affirming care clinic.”
TWO ARRESTS and none for the broken windows even with cell phones recording who’s doing it?
If any protester is wearing a mask, that’s like what a bank robber does, but do bank robbers get off… then why to the masked mobs get away with it?
I can’t understand why police don’t block all entrances to trap, investigate, and arrest those responsible.
Probably orders from the mayor or whoever is their boss.
The typical wokie has the brain power somewhere between a highly intelligent cabbage and a mildly retarded fruitfly. That’s been the goal all along, of course, since simpletons are easily controlled.
If Fascism was ever to come to America it will come disguised as Liberalism…. Ronald Reagan.
He sure got that right didn’t he?.
We have arrived at that point today where somebody can still be employed even though they call for the murder of ALL Policemen, and yet somebody who says nothing even close to that is cancelled and referred to as a fascist when the actual fascist are calling the shots.
Its an upside down World we live in today with the youth of America blindly following while having their empty heads stuck firmed up their Rectums.
Window smashers should all be made to pay for the broken windows out of their own wallets and purses and do the labor themselves