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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.
Another ‘neocon’ is born................
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.
This is a very significant story which I am following in more than one outlet.
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.
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.
The real scandal is that this ‘college’ charges $63,000 a year to babysit these snowflakes.
http://www.middlebury.edu/admissions/tuition
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.
It's a good thing the population can see these money-grubbing quasi criminals for what they really are...
Certainly there will be consequences. One is that the thugs just learned that they can get away with uncontrolled violence and will repeat it when they please. Another is that academic freedom takes another stab, but it was already breathing its last anyway. No one will even do anything to prevent this from happening again, much less punish it this time. Why pretend?
The old commies are starting to fear the Red Guard they created? ;-)
Just curious: would she have been shouted down at one of our gatherings while speaking out on an opposition viewpoint? Would she have been assaulted? IMHO, she may have gotten some "boos" and argument from the crowd, but would not have required hospitalization.