# BLM shuts down ACLU Free Speech event **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 5, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994 "2017-10-05T02:18:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/1 "2017-10-05T02:18:48Z")
Says [“liberalism is White Supremacy”](http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/04/black-lives-matter-students-shut-down-th) ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/2 "2017-10-05T03:02:58Z")
Horseshoe Theory…Horseshoe Theory. The far left goes so far left it isn’t left anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/3 "2017-10-05T03:06:10Z")
[Concurrent Great Debates thread on this topic.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=837987) ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/4 "2017-10-05T05:50:41Z")
I never get it right. Here I am thinking, “What has the Bureau of Land Management done now?” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/5 "2017-10-05T13:32:49Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I never get it right. > > Here I am thinking, “What has the Bureau of Land Management done now?” You’re not the only one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/6 "2017-10-05T14:09:27Z")
Bit of an own goal there. But hey, it’s college. They’ll learn from this. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/7 "2017-10-05T14:22:31Z")
Now really isn’t the time to talk about Black Lives Matter, or the ACLU. There’s a lot of heated feelings right now, and we don’t really know what happened. Let’s let the investigations proceed, and maybe in a few months or years we can have a rational discussion about this. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/8 "2017-10-05T15:42:29Z")
Way to make sure you have no friends in your fight BLM. Idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/9 "2017-10-05T16:39:54Z")
Well, if any are students there, they should be flunked out for demonstrating such idiocy. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/10 "2017-10-05T17:08:45Z")
This just makes me sick. BLM has a noble cause, but their leadership sucks really bad. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/11 "2017-10-05T17:56:07Z")
Do they even _have_ a leadership? Do they have an official spokesperson? Suppose you wanted to sue BLM, who would you serve papers to? If you wanted to personally congratulate, or persecute, BLM members in America, where would you get the list? BLM is more than a slogan and an inspiration, but is far from being an organized entity. Hence, it is pretty stupid to say “BLM says this” or “BLM did that”. So, stop being stupid. Today would be good, tomorrow will do. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/12 "2017-10-05T18:01:58Z")
Sounds like the idiots from BAMN just appropriated the BLM name because it had better brand recognition. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/13 "2017-10-05T18:03:54Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Do they even _have_ a leadership? Do they have an official spokesperson? Suppose you wanted to sue BLM, who would you serve papers to? If you wanted to personally congratulate, or persecute, BLM members in America, where would you get the list? BLM is more than a slogan and an inspiration, but is far from being an organized entity. Hence, it is pretty stupid to say “BLM says this” or “BLM did that”. You can visit their website here: [http://blacklivesmatter.com/](http://blacklivesmatter.com/) There you can donate to them, read about their mission and contact them. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/14 "2017-10-05T18:09:22Z")
There are no officers, no board of directors, and no other apparent leadership (except that the site mentions three founders). ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/15 "2017-10-05T18:19:13Z")
Great, now I’m embarrassed to be a W&M alumna :mad: We are in the Trump administration, and THIS is the enemy they pick? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blm-shuts-down-aclu-free-speech-event/797994/16 "2017-10-05T18:31:01Z")
But you can take solace in the fact that you, practically alone in the world, correctly used the feminine singular form of _alumna_. :)\ Alumni is the plural form. Alumnus is the masculine singular form. Alumnae is the feminine plural. Hardly anyone seems to understand that alumni isn’t the form that covers everything.