Posted on 03/08/2017 8:06:12 AM PST by reaganaut1
On March 2, there was one of those oh-so-revealing events that makes people realize that very bad trends are at work in America, trends that are corroding the essence of civilization.
Middlebury College in Vermont is a liberal arts school. The prolific author and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray was asked to speak at Middlebury and answer questions from faculty and audience members. He is used to confrontations, but could not have imagined how vicious things would get up in the Green Mountain State.
Inside Higher Ed’s story on the event explains that college officials admonished the students prior to the talk that they could protest but not disrupt Murray’s talk, which was to be about the way white America is coming apart—the title of his latest book—along class lines. Unfortunately, that admonition did no good. “As soon as Murray took the stage,” we read, “students stood up, turned their backs to him and started various chants that were loud enough and in unison such that he could not talk over them. Chants included:
Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Charles Murray go away!
Your message is hatred. We cannot tolerate it.
Who is the enemy? White supremacy!
Video of the ugly scene in the lecture hall is available here.
And then matters turned worse. Fearing that there might be a raucous, disruptive mob instead of an audience of students willing to listen and consider Murray’s arguments, school administrators had set up a contingency plan. Once it became clear that the mob had killed the lecture, they moved to another location where Murray would give his talk, which would be live-streamed to students.
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As an old friend of mine, a county judge, once remarked, “We’re only 48 hours away from anarchy”
Obama is using both. The Brown Shirts are the Kristallnacht rioters who smash glass, burn cars and stop traffic on the streets. The Red Guard are the student bodies who scream at conservatives who attempt to speak. The Red Guard destroy the university tradition of open campus, rational discussion of all ideas.
The Brown Shirts are on the street looking for trouble. They will fight, burn, and destroy at will.
Both groups are predominantly children in their teens who are incapable of discernment and easily led into idealistic, utopian ideology.
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