I find Ann Coulter and her inflammatory and irrational rhetoric abominable. However, the students at the University of Ottawa are mistaken if they believe that preventing Coulter from speaking was the correct way to assure a "safe and positive space" for students on their campus.
The best way to counter bigots' hate-speech is to have a rational debate in which their bigotry and hatred is shown openly to be what it is. The only thing that the students did was to give the arch-conservatives and haters more amunition that can be used by the right-wing against what they describe as the intolerance of the left.
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