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.
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?
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