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    'No Safe Spaces' Review – How Far Will Political Correctness Take Us?


    'No Safe Spaces' Review – How Far Will Political Correctness Take Us?
    By Jacob Airey
    ‘No Safe Spaces’ Review – How Far Will Political Correctness Take Us? | The Daily Wire

    PragerU founder Dennis Prager and comedian/podcast host Adam Corolla team up for "No Safe Spaces," a documentary covering the hot topic of political correctness and how it has infected everything from politics to educational institutions, as well as the entertainment industry. From getting speakers banned to harassing public officials, this "woke" crowd is targeting anyone that disagrees with them, and this documentary highlights some of the most egregious examples of bad actors trying to stop free speech.

    Prager and Corolla travel the nation, documenting high profile moments of protest against Conservative speakers. This includes a 2017 speech given by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shaprio at UC Berkeley, which was violently protested by far-left students and outside Antifa activists who were bent on stopping anyone by whom they were "offended" from expressing their freedom of speech.

    The film shines a spotlight on these incidents and does a good job of exposing the bad actors who are trying to do an end-run around the First Amendment in order to block people they do not like from simply stating their opinion. There is no debate allowed by these hecklers, who only want to stamp out – sometimes literally – the beliefs of others.

    The film is well-developed, and moves at an easy pace, interviewing newsmakers, celebrities, authors, educators, and many others who have experienced backlash over their refusal to kowtow to the politically correct. Some of the unforgettable footage burns in your memory. For example, a group of far-left students hold a meeting with one university's faculty. When one teacher refuses to pander to their whims, the students take over and overreact.

    The most sobering aspect of the film is the personal testimonies of Prager and Corolla. Often, documentary filmmakers are simply observers, but these two have themselves been targeted by the politically correct. Corolla's irreverent comedy and Prager's stand for traditional values have made them both targets of the Left who, at one time, tried to silence them or deplatform them over their views.

    Of course, the mainstream media have tried to dismiss "No Safe Spaces." Writing for the AV Club, critic Vadim Rizov opines, "This isn't an argument for free speech, it's just paranoid whining, complete with a roundtable of comics sympathetically agreeing how sad and scary this all is, plus images of the Statue of Liberty with tape over its mouth."

    This, of course, is echoed by its "rotten" status on film rating aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. This has done nothing to stop audiences, where it has a shocking one-hundred percent rating at the time of this review.

    Fox News reports that at its first showing in Phoenix, Arizona, on October 25th, "No Safe Spaces" proved a box office success, producing the "second-highest ever box office gross for a documentary playing on just one screen, according to the movie's producers." Heading into week two of its release, the momentum does not seem to be slowing down, with a distribution expansion planned.

    Despite the mainstream media's sabotage attempts, "No Safe Spaces" is going reach more Americans who are fed up with the pandering to college students, Antifa mobs, and woke thinkers who are making conversation, debate, and free speech untenable in American life.

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    Free speech documentary 'No Safe Spaces' continues surge ahead of nationwide release
    By Brian Flood
    Free speech documentary ‘No Safe Spaces’ continues surge ahead of nationwide release | Fox News


    Radio personality Dennis Prager and comedian Adam Carolla's documentary about free speech, "No Safe Spaces," doesn't open nationwide until November 15, but it is already making noise.

    "No Safe Spaces," which opened in limited release on Oct. 25, came close to topping the $185-million budget "Terminator: Dark Fate" in Denver and San Diego theater complexes over the weekend, and ended up finishing a close second to the Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster in those venues when the final figures came in.

    Carolla considers it a victory to finish a tick behind the Hollywood blockbuster....



    ...The film's successful second weekend came after it opened in Phoenix with the second-highest ever box office gross for a documentary playing on just one screen, according to the movie's producers. "No Safe Spaces" raked in an estimated $45,000 on one screen, trailing only Michael Moore's 2007 offering, "Sicko."

    Prager has called the film a "wake-up call" to the American people, claiming free speech is being trampled on to satisfy a political agenda. "No Safe Spaces" will get another shot to edge Schwarzenegger when it opens in additional cities on November 8 before expanding further Nov. 15....












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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezekiel 33 View Post

    I know what you're thinking. Did I fire 5 shots or did I fire 6?
    "I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five"

    There's a certain melody to the way he says it. Legendary movie clip.


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    "I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five"

    There's a certain melody to the way he says it. Legendary movie clip.

    Iconic!

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    Boy oh boy. Did my old memory get that backwards or what? Of course, probably haven't seen it in over 30 years!



    Does anyone remember the tv series that was sort of a satire of Dirty Harry? I can't remember what it was called.

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    I found it. It was called Sledgehammer


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