Being a College Republican on that campus is lonely business. Kudos to them.
Posted on 10/19/2017 1:55:50 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
I’ve argued lately that the campus free-speech crisis is escalating. The failure to punish shout-downs of visiting conservative speakers is now licensing disruptive attacks on administrators, professors in the classroom, and fellow students.
Now Campus Reform reports on a shout-down, not of a visiting speaker but of a peaceful meeting of College Republicans at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The organizer of the shout-down called on Facebook for students to “reject the ‘right of assembly’ or ‘right of free speech’ for white supremacists and fascists” (i.e. College Republicans). Demonstrators then shut down a Republican meeting in progress by forcing the doors and chanting at the group, calling them racists, fascists, and white supremacists. The College Republicans offered a dialogue, but the disruptors refused and continued to chant, demanding the campus Republicans break up their meeting and leave.
The disruptors even demanded that staff eject the College Republicans from the library where the meeting was being held. (You can see a brief video featuring a library staffer in the Campus Reform piece). Eventually, just to end the disturbance, library staff asked the Campus Republicans to leave. But the group rightly refused to go, and kept sitting quietly instead. According to the report, after two hours library staffers finally called the police, who promptly arrested three of the protesters.
This incident is another warning that shout-downs are threatening to morph into generalized warfare. I mean that only partly metaphorically. How long before student groups, nose-to-nose in confrontation, resort to violence? We saw some violence at Middlebury. But if nothing is done to stop these shout-downs, Allison Stanger’s concussion and neck-brace will have been only the beginning.
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“This incident is another warning that shout-downs are threatening to morph into generalized warfare.”
“How long before student groups, nose-to-nose in confrontation, resort to violence?”
“We saw some violence at Middlebury.”
“But if nothing is done to stop these shout-downs, Allison Stanger’s concussion and neck-brace will have been only the beginning.”
This sounds like a TORT.
They need to be made whole.
George W. Bush — leading the shouting.
This is amazing stuff. Leftist are trying to make college campuses no-go zones for free individuals.
Immediate and Permanent Expulsion is the ONLY way to stop the childish behavior.
If this happens to you calmly explain to the police that you think the protestors must be on some sort of dangerous drug—and you have no idea what they are screaming about.. :-)
The college is violating the guest speakers civil rights and can be sued under the RICO act.
Santa Cruz is one of the nastiest places in California.
Train down the middle of mainstreet by the beach is super cool. Nice pier out over the water. Stopped there once and it was a place you wish was nice. But I have never seen so many bums and stoners take over the streets at night.
Imagine if you will Campus Republicans shouting down a leftist group. Would the leftists be asked to leave? Would the library staffers wait two hour to call the police?
Of course this is moot. If College Republicans attempted to shout down a group of leftists, the leftists would immediately attack the Republicans physically, and the news media would report it as Republicans attacking peaceful people.
Welcome to Obama's America.
San Diego is following suit.
Being a College Republican on that campus is lonely business. Kudos to them.
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