Ban Coulter from speaking -- a Facebook group.
I wouldn't go see her speak and much of what she says, especially about religious groups, I find deeply offensive. But universities should have a wide spectrum of opinion and so long as what she says is legal I would not want her banned.
After all, banning a speaker sets a precedent for the future -- today people like Coulter; tomorrow people like Chomsky:
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My question is: Knowing her views, why is she even allowed into the country?
Or George Galloway...
Oh wait, done already and partially supported by the Liberals...
Her views are not within hate speech -- and it's a free country, or should be. I don't like what a lot of people say -- sometimes it gets me very angry -- but people have a right to say what they believe.
The question isn't whether Coulter should be allowed to speak. Of course she should.
The question is how in God's name she got invited to speak at a university in the first place. Seeking a range of views shouldn't mean grabbing the first fool you can find babbling inanities and drag them up to the podium. For example, a fool spouting inanities like suggesting the U.S. invade Muslim countries and convert them to Christianity.
As for the anti-Islamic nature of Coulter's views, I'll pass. I don't mind saying, however, that I'm disappointed at the University of Ottawa lowering its standards into the gutter.
Who would you recommend, Bill? Would David Suzuki be okay to have at the niversity as a lecturer?
Banning a speaker sets no precedent at all. We already have plenty of precedent with people like Ernst Zundel being banned from speaking.
Other people who have been banned include George Galloway, the British MP who spoke out against the Iraq war, Timothy Leary, when he attempted to speak in 1967 (he later made it in; I interviewed him in the 1980s).
Also, I would recommend reading her views before blithely saying they do not amount to hate speech.
How soon everyone forgets that Galloway was barred because of his stated intent to raise (more) funds for Hamas on his visit to Canada.
Telling people that you are coming to their country to break their laws really isn't very smart...
Her views do not fit the "Mecca" of free speech. The politically correct left wing mindset of Canadian Universities.
If Mohamed Elmasry was invited to speak in Ottawa for "Israel Apartheid Week". Do you think he would get a warning letter? Not in your life. And you all know it.
A lot of people on the left do not understand her shtick.
She uses humour and absurdity to illustrate the absurdity of her political adversaries. If they get offended, too bad, that's not her problem, its theirs.
By they way, she packed the hall at Western. She succeeded in irritating a lot of leftists.
Perfect example of Coulter illustrating "Pro Choice" absurdity, by being....absurd.
From Toronto Sun.
After American abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down in church last year, Coulter was asked to condemn the killing by conservative Fox host Bill O'Reilly. She replied: "I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester. ... I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others."
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