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Campus Disgrace: Will There Be Consequences for the Violent Middlebury Mob?
townhall.com ^ | 3/7/2017 | Guy Benson

Posted on 03/07/2017 7:54:04 AM PST by rktman

In a statement, Middlebury's president says that an independent investigation is underway to identify and sanction students who violated school policy and/or the law. Rightly stresses difference between peaceful, non-violent protest and hooliganism:

Toward the end of the clip, a female professor tries to reason with the shrieking pack of hyenas, assuring them that she had prepared a litany of questions with which to challenge Murray during the Q&A session. She was shouted down. In the ensuring melee, as she helped escort Murray out of the secondary venue (the original lecture hall was abandoned due to loud and relentless interruptions), she was physically assaulted and sent to the hospital:

This professor is a self-described Democrat who disagrees with Murray, yet she hoped to facilitate a productive discussion in the spirit of academic inquiry. Instead, she was besieged and attacked by her fellow "liberals," later calling the experience "the saddest day of my life." Via Reason's Robby Soave:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antifa; fascists; freespeech
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Print Version: Looks good on twitter, but most likely in the end, meh! It's about "their" free speech, not yours/ours. As for the Prof who is a self-described dem? Probably won't change her political leanings even though it was "the saddest day of my life.".
1 posted on 03/07/2017 7:54:04 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

For those that prefer the original with ads included:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/03/07/campus-disgrace-will-there-be-consequences-for-the-middlebury-mob-n2294787


2 posted on 03/07/2017 7:54:48 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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They should have done a videotaped interview with the speaker and posted it on the school website and YouTube. Millions would have watched it instead of the hundred people there just to spite the anti-free speech rioters.


3 posted on 03/07/2017 7:59:40 AM PST by TigerClaws
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They should have done a videotaped interview with the speaker and posted it on the school website and YouTube.

Then muzzle and tie down all the protesters and make them watch it and pass an exam about the details.

4 posted on 03/07/2017 8:05:15 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: rktman

Another ‘neocon’ is born................


5 posted on 03/07/2017 8:08:48 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: rktman

The entire episode is a condemnation of Middlebury itself.

The school has failed to teach their students to be precise-enough minds so that they could listen to anything from the Klan to Karl Marx and discern the truth for themselves.


6 posted on 03/07/2017 8:09:51 AM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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To: rktman

This is a very significant story which I am following in more than one outlet.


7 posted on 03/07/2017 8:11:34 AM PST by Tax-chick (Reality does not go away when we close our eyes. It only disappears from our view.)
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Just EXPEL ALL OF THEM!


8 posted on 03/07/2017 8:13:45 AM PST by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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I can not watch lily white females decrying “white priveledge” and crying for diversity and open borders while they live
In safe, racially homogeneous towns.


9 posted on 03/07/2017 8:24:08 AM PST by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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I read Professor Stanger’s Facebook post, linked from the article. She describes the harrowing experience of being set upon by a mob. Then she managed to blame Trump “for the evil he has unleashed.” She asks what has made the “marginalized” students so angry.

She is a model of the modern academy. She sees the evidence with her own eyes of how illiberal the modern campus has become and reaches exactly the wrong conclusion.


10 posted on 03/07/2017 8:24:10 AM PST by SargeK
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They were successful. All of Common Core and the US curricula from John Dewey is to DESTROY critical thinking (integration of the brain will never occur) and they will NEVER be Wise, since they will NEVER be able to discern Good and Evil (Wisdom, according to Cicero and all philosophers)..

They succeeded and are doing it to ALL children by hyper-sexualizing them (completely warping their emotions about their own bodies and relationships) with media and schooling (programming) who are in the “publik” skool system and glued to screens, which is to destroy cognitive function in children and make them irrational for life, to embed dependency and hate for the Other (true diversity of male/female) and not be able to discern Good and Evil.

These graduates are so stupid they can’t even think as clearly as a normal four year old who can tell boys from girls with no trouble. Common Sense (Reality) can not exist in children who are removed from the Natural Family and put into group-think factories which destroy “thinking” for self and force a socialistic worldview (tribal worldview) on the children so they will be dependent on “group-(non)-think”.

Individualism with Reason and Free Will are only a Christian construct come only from DOING and LIVING in a REALITY which is DESIGNED by God——not man who wants to “kill God” (the Postmodernist, atheist, Darwinian, Malthusians who control the curricula and embed psychological warfare inside it and remove children from the Natural family and demean fatherhood and motherhood and commitment, basis of all civil societies.


11 posted on 03/07/2017 8:25:37 AM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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The real scandal is that this ‘college’ charges $63,000 a year to babysit these snowflakes.

http://www.middlebury.edu/admissions/tuition


12 posted on 03/07/2017 8:35:43 AM PST by Deo volente ("Our Independence Day is at hand, and it arrives finally on November 8th." Donald Trump)
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She probably blames President Trump for all the riots, flash mobs, looting, etc, in recent years.


13 posted on 03/07/2017 8:55:45 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Dr. Frankenstein being attacked by her creations.
14 posted on 03/07/2017 8:56:09 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (It is time to make America an uncomfortable place for Marxist usurpers.)
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To: Tax-chick

Yup. Saw several different articles on this but this was the first one I stumbled on to. But, sadly, probably not a lot going to happen to the mindless snowflaks who were the main culprits.


15 posted on 03/07/2017 9:04:46 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Deo volente

Ah, but what do you bet that most of the loudest protestors’ parents were not paying anything close to that amount? Paying full boat is for suckers, Whites and Asians...


16 posted on 03/07/2017 9:09:32 AM PST by Stingray51
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Rightly stresses difference between peaceful, non-violent protest and hooliganism

When "peaceful, non-violent protesters" make it impossible to hear an invited speaker, they are neither peaceful nor non-violent. Even photographing attendees as they enter, done peacefully and non-violently, constitutes a threat in this environment.

I return to one of my favorite topics.

There is no undifferentiated "right to protest". There is a right to speak, at least in the sense that Congress can't forbid it.There is a right to assemble, peaceably, to petition the government for redress.

Charles Murray is not the government. The "protesters" (the "peaceful, non-violent" ones) were not seeking redress of grievances from the government, and they were exercising their speech rights in a manner calculated to injure and to provoke.

Middlebury doesn't need an investigation. They need a visit from Based Stickman.

17 posted on 03/07/2017 9:18:03 AM PST by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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One reasons Education Charlatans can charge so much is residual respect from years ago when colleges were dignified places of learning.

It's a good thing the population can see these money-grubbing quasi criminals for what they really are...

18 posted on 03/07/2017 9:53:03 AM PST by GOPJ (Obama's Deep State is attempting to overturn results of a Presidential Election - it's treason.)
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This professor is a self-described Democrat who disagrees with Murray, yet she hoped to facilitate a productive discussion in the spirit of academic inquiry. Instead, she was besieged and attacked by her fellow "liberals," later calling the experience "the saddest day of my life."


This should have been the professor's most enlightening day of her life. Instead, she probably will not learn from experience.
19 posted on 03/07/2017 10:03:57 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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Vegas odds are about 100-1 for her NOT seeing the light.


20 posted on 03/07/2017 10:07:04 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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