Sometimes 'pressing the button' is based on something other than understanding what anything means, leading to nothing to say but 'down'.

"Who is the clown "
I wish the clown would say what she/he thinks the phrase means instead of just pressing a button.

Hey! Great double-speak. That's beyond gaslighting! Excellent use of language to destroy logic!

Thanks for that info.

How strange it is that some people actually think like that...

Looks like a face I used to see patrolling a cell block.
The Alabama DOC makes all inmates completely shave their faces, though.

LOL! I have a very conservative brother who at times displays a similar sarcastic sense of humor.
Trouble is, saying "a peace act against hate speech" would have some snowflakes nodding back at you.

What a sicko, really. Look at his face. He looks like the Geico Caveman. What a Neanderthal.

He committed a peace act against hate speech. If unfairly convicted, the 9th circus will allow Obama to retroactively pardon him and he will be rewarded with a lucrative tax exempt position as Assistant to Bill Ayers, Social Justice Professor Emeritus at the Clinton-Obama International Library and Money Laundering Institute.

He was hard to follow but gave easy tests must have been what the students meant.
One could claim Clanton committed a terrorist act.against free speech but that's not how the left will view it, especially if Clanton has to serve hard time for conking three conservatives.

Dino didn't do it. +1.

And it doesn't make you, as someone who openly supports civilization, a hypocrite for defending yourself. Clanton is no supporter of civilization, but his deliberateness in his goals, and even contradictory rhetoric, means he isn't a hypocrite either. It's important to recognize the importance of ideas as the root of actions and the course of history and not assume that those acting destructively are only acting contrary to commonly accepted values.

People with values fight back and should -- it keeps bullies and criminals at bay, but that alone doesn't tell us what is proper for retribution or punishment. What begins as self-defense or revenge often turns into emotional feuding that turns into the mental, psychoogical and physical equivalent of murderous Hatfield-McCoy wars, worse than the original bad behavior. The protection of individual rights requires putting force under objective control, delegating its use to a proper government, which in turn requires a proper philosophy. Today we have a mixture of campus thugs on the loose unpunished and unstopped, while government acts as the criminal in many realms of our lives.

According to student reviews he was hard to follow but it was an easy course to get through. He probably wasn't much different than countless other modern philosophy courses opaquely muddying ideas, pushing bad ones, and indoctrinating with leftist collectivist politics.

He wasn't teaching this semester but who knows if he will go back to it, though probably not to the same college, which has now disowned him (for his physical attack, not his bad teaching of bad philosophy). Look at the "career" of Bill Ayres going from his Weather Underground terrorism to the University of Chicago and influential supporter of Obama's 'community organizing' and entrance into politics. Based on reports about Clanton's background, he doesn't have Ayres' brain power, money and pull, but he is now a potential martyr for the left to implant propagandizing somewhere, along with countless other drones echoing bad philosophy.

Who is the clown 'downvoting' explanation of the terminology. To say that "if he's guilty, maybe he can continue 'exploring restorative justice' by going to jail and paying restitution to the victim" misses the point of the "restorative justice" anti-punishment movement. It's specific terminology, not just informally self-descriptive by Clanton.

Canton was not famous (or infamous) before this but has a history of being into 'social justice' causes and has been part of the left's 'protests' against Trump and freedom of speech on campuses. His lawyer claimed that he is being persecuted for "engagement in political activity." As a politically aware teacher of philosophy, though certainly not renowned in his field, Clanton knows what he is doing; he's not just committing random acts of violence in ignorance. His advocacy of "restorative justice" is a term from leftist sociology opposing punishment for crimes, trying to replace it with negotiated 'settlement' with the victim and requiring the victim to engage in lengthy discussions with the perpetrator.

I have given this link, previously in this thread, on Canton and his lawyer in: https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

Here is some more background on his lawyer:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2...
http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/si...

But again, the politics isn't the root cause; the leftist politics and his personal behavior are a consequence of more fundamental bad ideas.

The violent left "protests" at universities is on the rise again, but most people don't realize it isn't new or know about the wave of it in the 1960s and 70s. For example we are now often told, with intended irony, that the "free speech movement" began at Berkeley in the late 1960s somehow contradicting what they are doing now. It did not, the leftists were just as totalitarian then, shutting down opponents, etc. while they were calling themselves the 'free speech movement' as an excuse to dictate university policy and take over buildings.

As for believing from following clicks violent crime in general is rising, the clicks have been there for about 20 years now so that isn't new. But variations in frequency of ordinary violent crime isn't the central issue; we're talking about the increasing philosophical irrationality infecting everything, including political ideas and the increasing statism.

"Conservative" is neither.

... And history repeats itself, once again.

I agree - I think. And, when some violent thug nut-job tries to assault me with a deadly weapon (any blunt object can be a deadly weapon if the bad-guy hits you hard enough, especially to the head), it is my philosophy that I (as a concealed-carry holder) will take out my .38 and stop the assault, with whatever force is necessary. I believe it.

I like TheRealBill's name best because it describes who they are now.

"Wrong ideas do not come from genes."
I don't know if it counts as an "idea", but I believe we're adapted to feel the urge for revenge, sometimes a ghastly revenge. So if someone steals or does violence, the victims or their family might incur costs and risks disproportional to the attack to get revenge. This served as a crude deterrent to violence before humankind invented law.
(I marked this reasonable and polite comment back up. )

" Clanton and his lawyer (an old line communist) are collectivists,"
How do you know this? Are they already famous apart from this crime? It doesn't really matter to me because I think the crime is every bit as bad regardless of the motive, but I'm still curious about the motive because it seems part of a larger pattern of people getting violently mad about politics. It's hard to believe he would be a non-violent person if only his public policy ideas were implemented.

"Rational people do not become morbidly fascinated by irrational outbursts and then emulate them"
I was saying train wrecks draw people's attention. On the Internet, that leads to clicks, so people and alogrithms put up links to more news stories that we supposedly "want", even if we don't want to see them and they are a rare exception to how people normally behave. This gives people the wrong impression that violent crime is rising.

Hope he gets it.

Clanton's "Introduction To Ethics" class must be a real trip. That all in his past, I hope.