Dear, Dear Ann Coulter...

[wendybeth]

There are plenty of other venues where these speakers get shouted down, not just Unies. We so-called adults spend a lot of time arguing about these people, why should college students be any different? As a college student, I would feel invested in that my tuition is helping to pay the speaker's fees for these people. Still, I always just stayed away when a speaker I disagreed with came to our school.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

There are plenty of other venues where these speakers get shouted down, not just Unies. We so-called adults spend a lot of time arguing about these people, why should college students be any different?

And there is a time and a place. Coulter didn't storm off. She went straight to Q&A. Why? So she could just debate the people who weren't going to let her speak.

The issue is one of respect. Moonliner, I have always thought I was right on pretty much everything (as everyone who been reading my posts over the last few years in whatever forum will testify to). However, I would never even consider being so rude as to shout down anyone who was invited to speak. As a student, are you not to learn? How can one learn without listening? If one does not wish to learn, don't inhibit others from doing so.

It's an issue of respect. Of decorum. Of common decency.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

And there is a time and a place. Coulter didn't storm off. She went straight to Q&A. Why? So she could just debate the people who weren't going to let her speak.

The issue is one of respect. Moonliner, I have always thought I was right on pretty much everything (as everyone who been reading my posts over the last few years in whatever forum will testify to). However, I would never even consider being so rude as to shout down anyone who was invited to speak. As a student, are you not to learn? How can one learn without listening? If one does not wish to learn, don't inhibit others from doing so.

It's an issue of respect. Of decorum. Of common decency.

Ann Coulter is hardly a model of either decorum or decency. She also referred to her audience as 'stupid', which is incitive and immature. If she genuinely has a message she wants to get out there, why is she so damned insulting all the time? She wants to provoke people, and she isn't remotely interested in dialogue.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

She wants to provoke people, and she isn't remotely interested in dialogue.

Have you ever seen her debate Bill Maher? She is perfectly interested in dialogue with those that are interested in such. Those who wish to shout her down, when she has been invited to speak, most certainly deserve to be called stupid. They are. And rude.

[wendybeth]

Actually, I have seen her 'debate' Bill Maher. That's precisely where I formed my opinion of her. I haven't seen anything since to change that opinion. In fact, I believe I owe Paris an apology.

[SacTown Chronic]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

She also referred to her audience as 'stupid', which is incitive and immature.

Actually, she said "stupider".

And are these students really 'stupider' than someone who once argued that Canada fought in the Vietnam War?

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Ann Coulter is WAAAY hotter than Paris...

Which is akin to saying a two inch dick is WAAAY bigger than a one inch dick. Technically it's true but hardly worth bragging about.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

Which is akin to saying a two inch dick is WAAAY bigger than a one inch dick. Technically it's true but hardly worth bragging about.

You speak as if you have experience with this.