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I'm sorry, but the fact our president doesn't actually understand what free speech means is appalling.

Free speech doesn't mean a college has to give you a platform from which to spew your hate speech. Ironically him threatening to defund them over this is actually a borderline violation of the college's free speech rights.

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Free speech doesn't mean guerrilla warfare either. The radical chics should learn that losing is a fact of life.

If they have federal funding they do. (Amongst a lot of other things that they're required to enforce)

No, the receipt of federal funding does not require that the receiver grant a platform to all comers. That would be absurd.

Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment.

Hate speech is a concept that does not exist in American law. It is not one of the exceptions to the 1A (such as obscenity or slander).

I'm halfway glad too.

Would you elaborate as to what you mean, preferably with some examples? The US has generally been pretty liberal in protecting free speech. For example, affording the KKK protection to march in Skokie, Illinois.

The college did give him a platform. The kids in ninja costumes took it away.

Almost every programmer I follow on Twitter cheered and praised them while they threw bombs, lit fires, beat and pepper sprayed people. I guess programmers do see themselves as ninjas, after all.

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