Watch Lars Ulrich’s UC Berkley Panel Get Interrupted by Student Protesters
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[b]Watch Lars Ulrich’s UC Berkley Panel Get Interrupted by Student Protesters[/b]
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[quote]Last month, we found out that Lars Ulrich would host a night at UC Berkley, where he would be joined by his dad Torben, James Hetfield, Les Claypool, and more to discuss being an artist in the Bay Area. We made a lot of fun of it.
Well, footage has now been released from that night showing that it was interrupted by student protesters, and things got a little ugly. No one got the shit kicked out of them, but one dude definitely goes down hard. The result was one arrest and several citations. You can see it in the first video below.
What’s especially problematic, though, is that it’s not clear what’s being protested. According to Dailycal.org, the protestors were from a group called the Student Labor Committee, and were just trying to disrupt the event to, I don’t know, bring awareness to their cause? As you’ll see, they yell a lot of revolutionary-sounding bullshit and then go off on how they’re being hurt by security guards, but there’s no point to it all. There’s no sign reading ‘Black Lives Matter’ or ‘Fur Is Murder’ — it’s just chaos masked as protest.[/quote]
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mp39ERbUOA[/hd]
I honestly don't understand what they tried to do, other than make complete asses of themselves and ruin it for everyone.
"We are students, and we pay $40,000 a year in tuition!"
Is what I heard, he was kind of unclear but go protest that at a Bernie or Hillary rally I dont see what these have to do with that.
Haha what the fuck did these people even smoke. Lars is a giant cunt to the point of being permabanned from a metal forum and he is being a giant dick with his copyrights but what the fuck does that have to do with college tuition. Holy fuck these people are like hypochondriacs but with political issues instead of ailments.
I love the loud 'shut up' about 30 seconds in.
I had a premonition the top comments would be about "lefties"...
[QUOTE=RobL;49958284]I had a premonition the top comments would be about "lefties"...[/QUOTE]
In all seriousness, it certainly looks like something a [I]lefty[/I] would do.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;49958309]In all seriousness, it certainly looks like something a [I]lefty[/I] would do.[/QUOTE]
Just like how right wingers always curb-stomp homosexuals for fun!
- I know Lars is a cunt, but...
- Something, something, potraying all left voters as these guys.
This is all this thread is going to be.
In this case I don't think it matters what political interests the protesters had. We can all agree that they are being idiots no matter their affiliation.
[QUOTE=Chili Banan;49958368]In this case I don't think it matters what political interests the protesters had. We can all agree that they are being idiots no matter their affiliation.[/QUOTE]
Especially when they decide to "protest" at a panel about creativity.
I would have said this instead:
[video]https://youtu.be/DvYYqRefhuM?t=10[/video]
i like lars
It was literally a culmination of multiple protest groups that have been active on campus recently. Since the talk happened during midterm season, the protests were not well organized, leading to a cacophony of all groups. Seriously I heard about this before it happened and I knew it was going to be a mess, so I refused to take part.
We really should of just found a way to protest about how dumb the talk was going to be, and how out of touch my school is with it's funding for talks on music, but that would of taken actual organizing.
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Like seriously I regularly take place in protests at my school, but shit like this is why I make fun of the students here on all the time, and I'm about as "progressive" as they come!
They got off way, *way* too fucking easy.
[quote]But that’s obviously not what the SLC wants — they’re all about the bum-rush and the insanity that ensues afterwards. And after Dimebag Darrell and Randy Blythe — overused references, maybe, but important ones — you can’t expect to just rush a high-profile musician and expect them to be blasé about it.[/quote]
^ Lars is a pretty chill dude, but it wouldn't be far-fetched to think that the security around the stage could have been a lot less forgiving to them. Teeth would have flown all over the place, ribs would have been broken, over this stupid stunt.
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But hey, they'd consider that reason enough to shout "P-POLICE BRUTALITY!!!1!1!11111111". Stupid fucks.
[QUOTE=RobL;49958317]Just like how right wingers always curb-stomp homosexuals for fun![/QUOTE]
I don't get your point. Extremism is bad regardless of which end of the spectrum it applies to.
I hate these kind of people, they are protesting at the wrong place at the wrong time and in the wrong way. It's like they think the world revolves around them and their cause so they disrespect everyone else and expects to somehow gain sympathy. I am seriously baffled by how little self awareness these people must have.
Then again most of them are probably boring people who just wants to be a part of something bigger and protests for the sake of protesting.
Every time Lars misses a snare hit Obama raises college fees by a cent. That's why the protest, because Lars is fucking it up.
I wouldn't have nearly as big of a problem with this if the students rallied around a single cause. It's just kind of funny because whenever someone asks me what the Berkeley crowd is like, I always tell them it is a group of kids who try too hard to seem cool, and this video is just more proof that I am right.
Like honestly I have participated in all the main groups I heard in the video, BLM, animal rights groups, college tuition groups, etc, but in all the protests I was in for them, they were all at least somewhat organized and took place in relevant places. I wanted nothing to do with this one because I knew it was going to become a shit show, because Lars Ulrich and the people watching him talk about music are not the community who have anything to do with raising tuition here.
If my school was more competent, I would of gladly partaken in a protest about the lack of arts funding, the growing problem of creative events being shut down in the bay area to comply with the growing techie population, or even how stupid it was for the music department to spend a majority of their lecture budget to get a borderline irrelevant artist to talk about something that he is disconnected from. Then again, all of those topics would have taken planning, and actual thought.
I'M YELLING LOUDER THAN YOU AND THATS WHY MY ARGUMENT HOLDS MORE WEIGHT
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;49959019]They got off way, *way* too fucking easy.
^ Lars is a pretty chill dude, but it wouldn't be far-fetched to think that the security around the stage could have been a lot less forgiving to them. Teeth would have flown all over the place, ribs would have been broken, over this stupid stunt.
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But hey, they'd consider that reason enough to shout "P-POLICE BRUTALITY!!!1!1!11111111". Stupid fucks.[/QUOTE]
How is being tackled and forcibly removed not enough for people who were doing nothing other than being loud? Why would a brawl ensue from this?
