She’s too willing to shift blame from the students to Trump. She basically says their violence is an understandable (though not excusable) reaction to the “climate” Trump has created. Funny how it’s almost exclusively leftists who are being provoked to violence by this supposed climate.
BUT she deserves some credit for calling out the contemptible SPLC for slandering Murray. She did this in the pages of the NYT, which is not something that happens every day.
She should try to imagine the day that Conservatives start playing by those same rules and start smashing those who provoke them with leftist speech.
A general rule of thumb is that, whatever rules you break to attack others, they will eventually break as well to defend themselves.
It puts me in mind of the aftermath of the disruption which caused Trump to cancel a rally in Chicago. The first similarity, of course, was that no Republicans were causing the disruption and violence.But the other salient point, to me, was Senator Cruz’ reaction to the disruption. First - like this professor - he criticized those (Democrats who were ultimately outted by Project Veritas) who caused the disruption. But second - again, like the professor - Senator Cruz criticized Mr. Trump. That was an unforced error on Cruz’ part; when the topic is violence either political considerations are moot or you are complicit in the violence.
I doubt that the professor wants to be associated with Sen. Cruz. But by mentioning political rationalization of the violence at all she is amply justifying that association.