NAACP Demands U. South Carolina Cancel ‘Roast’ of Kamala Harris
“Hate speech has long served as a weapon to undermine the progress of our nation. At a time where we are witnessing groundbreaking history, bad actors aim to cast a dark shadow on those very achievements”
Saturday Night Live has been viciously mocking Donald Trump for years now but we can’t have anyone making fun of Kamala Harris.
The Hill reports:
NAACP calls for University of South Carolina to cancel ‘roast’ of Harris
The NAACP has joined a host of students in calling for the University of South Carolina to cancel a scheduled “roast” of Vice President Harris.
In a letter to university President Michael Amiridis, the organization said that while it is nonpartisan and does not endorse candidates, it was “compelled to write this letter because of the blatant sexist and racist nature of the event, the advertisement for it, and the potential for violence on campus because of the proposed event.”
“Hate speech has long served as a weapon to undermine the progress of our nation. At a time where we are witnessing groundbreaking history, bad actors aim to cast a dark shadow on those very achievements,” Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO, said in a separate statement.
“If South Carolina University’s leadership values their Black students, it’s only right they shut this event down. Our nation’s schools must remain havens for learning, not platforms for hate. It is imperative that the university takes swift action in this matter and protects the campus community from patterns of divisiveness and degradation.”
The event, scheduled for Sept. 18, is the work of the student chapter of Uncensored America, a nonpartisan organization fighting for freedom of speech.
The event’s “roastmasters” are Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, and Milo Yiannopoulos, a right-wing media personality who has previously come under fire for misogynistic, racist, xenophobic and transphobic comments.
“While the NAACP is a staunch advocate for, and defender of, free speech, in light of the advertisement used for the proposed event, the NAACP urges USC to cancel the proposed event, not because of what might be said at the event, but because of what already has been said and depicted in the obscene advertisement,” the NAACP’s letter reads.
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“Our nation’s schools must remain havens for learning, not platforms for hate.”
I think that ship has already sailed.
The NAACP wants to interfere with the First Amendment rights of the organizers based on speculation that someone they don’t like might say something they don’t like. And they want the State to do it for them.
You now understand the essence of the hate speech/disinformation policing industry.
Is Que Mala African-American now, or is she still Jamaican-Indian. Rachel Dolezal wants to know.
She’s race fluid.
Jamaican is African-American. And she’s both black and Indian, just as Trump is both German and Scottish, and La Guardia was both Jewish and Italian.
Is Jamaica the 51st state now?
No. “America” is not just the USA. As the left keep reminding us, the slave experience here began in 1619, and Jamaica was just as much a part of British North America as Georgia was. That Jamaica chose not to secede in 1776 isn’t really relevant in this context.
What he said….
Trump isny Scottish!
The NAACP says its objection is not based on what someone might say but on what has already been said to advertise the event. I have found many references to “vile” and “juvenile” promotional material, but have not yet been able to find a link to that material, or even a description of what makes it “vile” or “juvenile”. Something about deliberately misspelling her name is the most I could find, which hardly seems earth-shattering. So we are left to take someone’s word that whatever it is they’re not telling us, it’s bad, really bad. Sorry, not taking anyone’s word for that. I’ll decide whether it’s bad, if I can see a copy. If not, I have to assume it isn’t bad.
A basic writing class teaches, that to be persuasive, one should list hard and clear facts, which allow the reader to make their own conclusions.
Example:
Fact One
Fact Two
Fact Three
Reader makes their own conclusions,
Without any “evil facts” being presented, why should anyone believe NAACP?
A conservative writing class.
A modern writing class is much more oriented on feelings and what someone’s “personal lived experience” is. Regardless of facts. And the reader better shut up and believe you and validate you – again, regardless of facts.
“Vile and juvenile” speech is still protected speech even if the NAACP doesn’t like it. It’s a shame they went down the same road the ACLU went and became so hyper partisan.
“Vile” and “juvenile” is not the NAACP’s characterization, it’s the university’s. And the university is the one upholding the freedom of speech.
I live in SC, and the objection I have seen noted repeatedly here is the spelling of her name on the promotional info as Cum-ala.
and the potential for violence on campus because of the proposed event
Ah, there it is, the leftist equivalent of “Stop making me beat you!”
At a time where we are witnessing groundbreaking history
Really? WHERE? All I see is the same old repeats from history, trying to cast most people under the crushing weight of totalitarianism. This time by using race.
protects the campus community from patterns of divisiveness and degradation
So, the college must be their nanny and protect them “patterns”? How about protecting them from shills and con men who don’t want them to think critically? But that would go against self-interest, right?
Inevitably— in the months and years ahead, most enrollees will regret the time and money that they spent at most American colleges.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/29/meet-the-gen-zers-skipping-college-to-take-blue-collar-jobs-and-launch-trade-businesses.html
I’m amazed that the NAACP is not going after someone of Indian heritage for horning in on their black grift.
She’s just as black as she’s Indian. Why do some people find it so difficult to understand that people are more than one thing?
“Hate speech has long served as a weapon to undermine the progress of our nation. At a time where we are witnessing groundbreaking history, bad actors aim to cast a dark shadow on those very achievements,” Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO, said in a separate statement.”
Wait! Can he say “dark shadow?” Isn’t that racist? Or does the NAACP get a pass?
I thought that Dark Shadows was about Vampires and the living dead (Brandon).
Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys, and Milo Yiannopoulos? Wow, that ought to be a hoot. They still have a right to speak, though.
Let’s be clear, the NAACP doesn’t give a rip about “hate speech”, they care about someone insulting and mocking their candidate for President.
Of course. But I still want to know exactly what it was that they said in the advertisement, that the NAACP is using to demand that they be silenced, and that even the university called “vile” and “juvenile”. Because I’m not taking either of their words for it.
The NAACP is so stupid they don’t know she isn’t an African American. Typical