Posted on 03/02/2016 9:42:24 AM PST by Kaslin
Last Thursday, all hell broke loose at California State University Los Angeles. Hundreds of students gathered to chant slogans, block entrances and exits to the student union auditorium, rough up those who wished to enter, pull the fire alarm, and trap other students inside that auditorium under threat of violence. Police officers stood aside and allowed that mob to violate basic safety protocols, reportedly at the behest of the school administration.
Why?
Because I was coming to speak.
I had been scheduled to speak at Cal State Los Angeles for weeks. Young America's Foundation had organized the Fred R. Allen Lecture Series; CSULA represented the kickoff event. Student activists worked hard to publicize the event. Two separate radical professors at the university objected publicly to it, with one challenging "white supremacist" students to wrestle him, and another asking on Facebook, "I say this event is a problem...What we go'n do y'all?!?!"
Then, the Monday before the big conflagration, the president of the university, William Covino, summarily canceled my speech. "After careful consideration, I have decided that it will be best for our campus community if we reschedule Ben Shapiro's appearance for a later date, so that we can arrange for him to appear as part of a group of speakers with differing viewpoints on diversity. Such an event will better represent our university's dedication to the free exchange of ideas and the value of considering multiple viewpoints," Covino stated in Orwellian fashion.
I told Covino to stick it -- this was viewpoint discrimination, and I would show up anyway.
After days of silence, Covino must have determined that he didn't want to risk the legal consequences of barring me, so just two hours before the event, he backed down, adding, "I strongly disagree with Mr. Shapiro's views."
By the time we reached campus, the near-riot had begun. I had to be ushered through a back door by armed security as well as uniformed police. Helicopters circled the area; news trucks parked along the street. The room in which I was slated to speak was nearly empty, because the student protesters had blocked all the doors and were pushing around anyone who wanted to enter. One reporter was assaulted three times; one of the people who wanted to attend my speech was pushed to the ground and kicked. Police smuggled the students in four at a time through the back door until students blocked that door, too. Halfway through my speech, the fire alarm went off. I spoke through it.
When the speech ended, I asked security if I, along with the other students, could go out to confront the protesters. The campus police told me they couldn't guarantee my safety or that of any of those listening to me if we chose to walk outside. Instead, they'd have to spirit me away through a separate building with a large coterie of armed and uniformed police, stuff me into the back of a van, and then escort me from campus with motorcycles flashing their lights.
This is America in 2016, on a state-funded university campus.
And it shouldn't be surprising.
We have spent two generations turning college campuses from places to learn job skills to places to indoctrinate leftism and inculcate an intolerant view of the world that insists on silencing opposition. We have made campuses a fascist "safe space" on behalf of the left. Anyone who disagrees must be shut down, or threatened or hurt.
It's not just college campuses, either. We've entered an era of politics in which baseless feelings count more than facts, in which political correctness means firing those with different viewpoints, in which government actors insist that they can police negative thoughts. We're on the edge of freedom's end, and many Americans don't even see it.
They would have had they been at CSULA that day. And they will soon enough if they don't stand up for their rights today.
All federal money going to California State University - Los Angeles should be stopped immediately.
Progressives should be more tolerant...
This is a surprise. NOT.
This headline could have been written over 40 years ago.
In a libtard society, the government will do the thinking for you by defining the right ideas and behavioral standards and sending out the appropriate enforcement squads.
Based on the liberal crap we saw posted in all of the High School classrooms at Caucus last night, the Leftist Fascist agenda starts long before college.
Imagine what these tyrannical left-wing bastard students are going to do when they get into a career! They’re going to make “hostile workplace” a goal!
"We've entered an era of politics in which baseless feelings count more than facts, in which political correctness means firing those with different viewpoints, in which government actors insist that they can police negative thoughts. We're on the edge of freedom's end, and many Americans don't even see it. "
I hope work life presents these “special snowflakes” a cold hard slap out the door of the company they work for some day...if they qualify to work...
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“Snowflakes” are the listeners of the Tony Snow radio show.
Seeing this term used brings back good memories. God Bless him!
Fascism, by its very nature, IS a leftist philosophy. Perhaps the ultimate expression of “crony capitalism”.
The relationship of “progressive” and “fascist” has a long and checkered history, with the Italian Fascists once held in high regard by the FDR Administration, as a model for the “National Recovery Act” and the “Public Works Administration” instituted early in the New Deal. Both of these “progressive” ideas were found to be un-Constitutional by the Supreme Court of the time.
the president of the university, William Covino, summarily canceled my speech. “After careful consideration, I have decided that it will be best for our campus community if we reschedule Ben Shapiro’s appearance for a later date, so that we can arrange for him to appear as part of a group of speakers with differing viewpoints on diversity. Such an event will better represent our university’s dedication to the free exchange of ideas and the value of considering multiple viewpoints,” Covino stated in Orwellian fashion.
I told Covino to stick it — this was viewpoint discrimination, and I would show up anyway.
After days of silence, Covino must have determined that he didn’t want to risk the legal consequences of barring me, so just two hours before the event, he backed down, adding, “I strongly disagree with Mr. Shapiro’s views.”
Have to wonder about the parents of such special snowflakes and why they tolerate.
Oh. Wait. California.
‘Nuff said.
And some of us have been predicting it for decades and wondering what the heck people were thinking.
“Leftist fascists” took over college campuses fifty years ago.
Colleges - baccalaureate programs - were never a "place to learn job skills".
Maybe for people who aren't smart enough to benefit from college, it has become that.
How sad.
This was the ultra-Left... the BLM people who are Soro’s people.
FR pulled a thread little while ago from a very sanitized college youth neo-nazi group (right to pull it— they are vile) who attended the Trump Louisville rally where BLM came in and were removed.
So you have BOTH elements of the leftists— nazis and communists all of whom are LEFT and either socialist or marxists of some spectrum of the leftwing (who would want Bernie at best and settle on the criminal Hitlery who has cleverly done the tagging with the kkk on the gop— imagine that ridiculousness).
And obamaumao sits back and grins like a .....well, you know.
Folks, don’t rise to the manipulation. Stick with facts and policy and who the person is. Will NOT let the commies and nazis play us from the democratic side of the aisle. Remember the dem party is NOT the party of WWII and the 50’s = they are much worse, and now are desperate for the rest of our money.
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