Protesters at Middlebury College demonstrate ‘cultural appropriation’ — of fascism

Washington Post ^ | May 29, 2017 | Richard Cohen

[grundle]

From time to time, I email Allison Stanger. She answers always, but says she is not yet healthy enough to talk. On March 2, Stanger was escorting the social scientist Charles Murray, whose speech at Middlebury College, where she teaches, had just been shouted down, when the mob charged their car. “Someone pulled my hair,” she recounted, “while others were shoving me. I feared for my life.” The car was rocked. Stanger is still recovering from a concussion.

Last week, Middlebury disciplined 67 students for what happened that night. Some were put on probation and others were cited with the college equivalent of a demerit that will go in their “permanent record” — all in all, a slap on the wrist for students who deserved something more severe. Their offenses were not incidental. They had trifled with freedom of speech, academic freedom and, not incidentally, the health of a professor who was merely trying to facilitate the implementation of those rights. Charles Murray is controversial. He is not an Ebola carrier.

Middlebury’s disgrace was one of several incidents this year in which controversial or studiously obnoxious speakers were either run off campuses or were intimidated from coming. These included Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos, in the first category, as well as Heather Mac Donald and Murray, conservative scholars with interesting, if provocative, things to say. Mac Donald, the author of “War on Cops,” is a critic of the Black Lives Matter movement.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Notice this is Richard Cohen. Good.

[henkster]

Cohen may be prescient enough to know he’s not immune. He just happens to be a little farther down the list.

[originalbuckeye]

‘He (Murray) is redeemed by being vociferously anti-Trump’

The Leftys in the Media just can’t help it, can they? Murray was reviled, but he does have one saving grace......he is anti-Trump.

[fella]

Assault, Battery, rioting, conspiracy to riot and most of all denial of civil rights.