A widespread misapprehension exists that in the 1960s UC Berkeley was somehow a center of free speech. This was not the case at all.— George Reisman (@GGReisman) April 26, 2017
What free speech meant to the cretins that controlled the university was an alleged right to use sound trucks on campus to blare obscenities— George Reisman (@GGReisman) April 26, 2017
Thus, in their view free speech meant an alleged right of hoodlums to drown out the speech of professors and lecturers.— George Reisman (@GGReisman) April 26, 2017
Thus even 50 years ago, UC Berkeley was already an intellectual cesspool in which understanding of the meaning of free speech had been lost.— George Reisman (@GGReisman) April 26, 2017
-RWFreedom of speech means precisely the absence of the disruption of speech. It comes back into being as soon as the disrupters are removed.— George Reisman (@GGReisman) April 26, 2017
I was a student at UC Berkeley from 1965 to 1971, and I can state that George Reisman doesn't know what he's talking about. To be sure, there was some very silly speech, but disagreements were dealt with by more speech, not by suppressing speech, as is so popular today.
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