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Demonstrators protest the cancellation of a speech by conservative political commentator Ann Coulter at the University of California Berkeley on April 27.
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Demonstrators protest the cancellation of a speech by conservative political commentator Ann Coulter at the University of California Berkeley on April 27.

Re: May 5 Vincent Carroll column; and May 5Ā Pranav Jandhyala column.

Two articles in The Denver PostĀ considered the Berkeley campus free-speech uproar. I believe Ann Coulter should have been received peacefully as a speaker at the University of California.Ā But as folks blame ā€œacademic intoleranceā€ (Vincent Carroll), which isn’t rampant, or university “liberals” and sensitive ā€œliberalā€ students in particular, let me remind readers that Coulter herself is an ultra-right-wing, authoritarian, intolerant, society-dividing, virulent protester, a fear- and hate-mongering, ā€œyou are victimsā€ demagogue whose profitable books trash this group as harming other Americans or that group as ā€œsocialist takersā€ from the truly deserving. She despises society itself.

So liberal protesters protest the appearance of an extremist right-wing protester?Ā  Ironic.Ā  It¶¶Ņõap sad that the speech was canceled, but there’s the U.S.A.Ā today.Ā  And, with extremist wealthy authoritarians swarming into Washington, D.C., positions recently, perhaps we need more protests against their drive to destroy representative democracy.

Daniel W. Brickley, Littleton

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