Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Excellent letter to the editor in the San Francisco Chronicle today, from Luma Nichol: “The right to free speech was not violated at UC Berkeley by protests of the ultra-right agitator, Milo Yiannopoulos. Yes, the Constituon protects the right of Yiannopoulas to his ideas. But it also protects our free speech rights to counter his neo-fascism. Yiannopoulos’ speech was not banned by authorities, but rather shut down by the massive opposition to his presence. Like it or not, that is democracy. Let’s not allow the reaction to some broken windows overshadow the public’s right to demonstrate against neo-Nazi ideas. That is a right we cannot afford to lose.”
