Posted on 03/03/2017 3:27:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she was escorting a controversial speaker from campus. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.
Charles Murray, a political scientist who has been criticized for his views on race and intelligence, was invited to speak on campus by a student group. He was greeted late Thursday afternoon outside McCullough Student Center by hundreds of protesters, and inside Wilson Hall, students turned their backs to him when he got up to speak.
College officials led Murray to another location and a closed circuit broadcast showed him being interviewed by Stanger, the Russell J. Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics.
As Stanger, Murray and a college administrator left McCullough Student Center last evening following the event, they were “physically and violently confronted by a group of protestors,” according to Bill Burger, the college’s vice president for communications and marketing.
Burger said college public safety officers managed to get Stanger and Murray into the administrator’s car.
“The protestors then violently set upon the car, rocking it, pounding on it, jumping on and try to prevent it from leaving campus,” he said. “At one point a large traffic sign was thrown in front of the car. Public Safety officers were able, finally, to clear the way to allow the vehicle to leave campus.
“During this confrontation outside McCullough, one of the demonstrators pulled Prof. Stanger’s hair and twisted her neck,” Burger continued. “She was attended to at Porter Hospital later and (on Friday) is wearing a neck brace.”
Murray, who apparently was unhurt in the incident, is best known for his 1994 book, “The Bell Curve,” for which he was criticized for an assertion that people of different races have different economic outcomes because of their inherent difference in intelligence.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has called Murray a “white nationalist” who has used “racist pseudoscience.”
I don’t suppose that “Calypso Louie” Farrakhan-man or any of the other Black Racists would face similar treatment, would they?
The current Brownshirts on the march thru academia.
This is why we cannot let protestors think they can block roads and trap people in their cars, lest they assault people now trapped in their cars. Once the potential victims can’t go anywhere, it is easy to murder them by setting vehicles on fire or assaulting those trying to flee.
I have been to Middlebury. Seemed like a quiet college town.
These are not protestors.
These are terrorists.
I am reading “The Bell Curve” as we speak. It is a fascinating book and shows that IQ is real, genetic and matters. He speaks generally and is in NO WAY racist. It is a fact - IQ correlates to success.
“physically and violently confronted by a group of protestors,”
Kind of proves his theory, don’t it?
I’m reading Murray’s “By the People”. ..intestine indictment of our legal system...so far
Well intestine fits too...interesting
So, why no arrests?
This isn’t even news. News would be - Conservative Speaker Speaks Unmolested.
Colleges should be expelling all such law breakers and turning all evidence over to local authorities for prosecutions. Of course, libtards never do that for their precious hateful hacktivists.
If you read the book, Murray is about as straight a shooter as you can get.
But it does not fit the current leftist world view, so he must be racist.
Or pulling people out of their vehicles and killing them. This happened to Anthony Graziosi during the Crown Heights riots. Graziosi was murdered by a mob attacking Jews. A young pedestrian, Yankel Rosenbaum, was also stabbed to death.
Reginald Denny comes to mind too. He was pulled out of his truck during the Rodney King riots, and beaten within an inch of his life. Denny survived, but he had permanent neurological damage that affected his ability to walk and speak.
It’s time WE ALL start publicly calling these actions what they are...FASCISTS.
I grew up near Middlebury. It is a beautiful town. But, it has been a liberal college town for decades. Addison county was not so liberal when I was growing up but, now, the whole area is inundated with progressives and their like. Makes me very sad. I am grateful to have grown up there when it was conservative.
A nephew is a sophomore at Middlebury. He was an indoctrinated liberal before he graduated high school.
If you read the book, Murray is about as straight a shooter as you can get.
But it does not fit the current leftist world view, so he must be racist.
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