Bourbon & Bullets

HATE CRIES Hurty Words, Killy Words by David Cole   February 16, 2017 Multiple Pages photo credit: Bigstock The hellstorm of protests that greeted Milo Yiannopoulos on the UC Berkeley campus wasn’t nearly as disheartening as the flood of pro-censorship op-eds that poured from the pages of the  Daily Cal  newspaper in the days that  followed . The anti-Milo riots could (in theory) be dismissed as the work of “outside agitators.” But the op-eds? No way can they be seen as anything other than the sincere feelings of actual Berkeley students. These little geniuses all pretty much toe the same line, and it’s a familiar leftist line, going back decades:  “Hate speech” isn’t protected speech.  It doesn’t matter how many constitutional scholars and legal experts tell them they’re wrong, that “hate speech” is indeed protected  speech . These soft-skulled millennial simpletons are told by their professors every day that  “facts” ar...