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Berkeley’s Judith Butler wants to ban socially conservative speech

By Tom Rogan
Published December 14, 2017 3:03pm ET
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Berkeley’s Judith Butler wants to ban socially conservative speech
Butler argues that unless we restrict speakers who reject the left's social ideology, "We should perhaps frankly admit that we have agreed in advance to have our community sundered, racial and sexual minorities demeaned, the dignity of trans people denied, that we are, in effect, willing to be wrecked by this principle of free speech, considered more important than any other value." (Image courtesy screenshot)

At the University of California, Berkeley, last week, Judith Butler said that while she considers herself to be an “advocate” of the First Amendment, the articulation of socially conservative viewpoints should be banned.

While most of Butler’s speech was a meandering mess of faux-intellectual drivel, her conclusion was at least clear: She is not an advocate of the First Amendment.

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