A half-Japanese, a Samoan, and a reporter walk into a park… and a mob breaks out.
This is not really a surprise because the park is in Berkley California, home of the Orwellian “Free Speech Movement” — which was for lots of things, but freedom of speech was not one of them. The story below is about Joey Gibson, who is the half-Japanese person I referenced above, and Tiny, the Samoan who is 6’6″, 345-lb, and what happened to them when they wanted to put on …
“Liberty Weekend” in the Bay Area, which was to include a free speech rally in San Francisco followed by a “No to Marxism” rally in Berkeley (headed by a local “transsexual patriot”), Joey advertised that “no extremists will be allowed in. No Nazis, Communists, KKK, Antifa, white supremacists .??.??. or white nationalists.” (So much for free speech.) Likewise, the advertised docket of speakers was to include “three blacks, two Hispanics, one Asian, one Samoan, one Muslim, two women, and one white male.” If becoming a liberty movement fixture doesn’t work out for Gibson, he has a promising future as a UC Berkeley admissions officer.
Spoiler alert: bear spray, pepper spray, flagpoles, bottles, and other various instruments of brutality are involved because, you know, Freedom of Speech, tolerance, and all that. Oh, the reporter is Matt Labash who wrote this must read piece for the The Weekly Standard. It’s well-told and riveting, check it out: “A Beating in Berkley”.
