University of Montana J-school disinvites speaker due to ‘risk of offending students’

College Fix ^ | October 18, 2017 | Staff

[C19fan]

A controversial author and professor claims that he has been barred from speaking at a public university because of his conservative views.

“I’ve been banned from speaking at [the University] of Montana because I do not share their values of being ‘tolerant’ and ‘welcoming,'” Mike Adams, a professor at the University of North Carolina, tweeted early this morning. “A Dean said that.”

[C19fan]

I wish I knew about the hecklers veto when I was at college during the late 80s. My freshman Angela Davis was invited to give a speech. She is an outright Communist so she is part of movement responsible for the death of 100 MM.

[Personal Responsibility]

“...the hecklers veto...”

I don’t know if you came up with that term or got it from somewhere else but it’s brilliant. The exact right description for what’s going on here.

[AppyPappy]

1999: We must allow this speech even though some may find it offensive.
2017: We cannot allow this speech because some might find it offensive

[edwinland]

Speaking of Angela Davis, she was the subject of the greatest put down in all of Western literary history:

http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

Speaking to the New York AFL-CIO on July 9, 1975, Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn denounced Davis, whose fame depends upon her image as a supposed political prisoner during her trial, as a hypocrite for failing to help the victims of Soviet oppression when they requested her help:

“There’s a certain woman here named Angela Davis. I don’t know if you are familiar with her in this country, but in our country, literally, for an entire year, we heard of nothing at all except Angela Davis. There was only Angela Davis in the whole world and she was suffering. We had our ears stuffed with Angela Davis. Little children in school were told to sign petitions in defense of Angela Davis. Little boys and girls, eight and nine years old, were asked to do this. She was set free, as you know. Although she didn’t have too difficult a time in this country’s jails, she came to recuperate in Soviet resorts. Some Soviet dissidents–but more important, a group of Czech dissidents–addressed an appeal to her: `Comrade Davis, you were in prison. You know how unpleasant it is to sit in prison, especially when you consider yourself innocent. You have such great authority now. Could you help our Czech prisoners? Could you stand up for those people in Czechoslovakia who are being persecuted by the state?’ Angela Davis answered: `They deserve what they get. Let them remain in prison.’ That is the face of Communism. That is the heart of Communism for you.”[5]

[C19fan]

I found that term all over when First Amendment issues come up.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So they are intolerant in the name of tolerance?

[servo1969]

Heckler’s Veto is actually legal term regarding the First Amendment.

—“Heckler’s veto” refers to a situation involving a government official who allows a hostile audience’s reaction to shut down or silence an unpopular speaker. In other words, the speaker’s right to free speech is suppressed by the fear of disruption.—

Here’s a good article:
http://www.newseuminstitute.org/2017/04/26/controversial-speakers-and-the-problem-of-the-hecklers-veto/

[dfwgator]

Wow. That’s why I considered Solzhenitsyn one of the most brilliant men of our times.

[blueunicorn6]

Ahhhhh.....the university of Montana.

They should change their motto from “Lux et Veritas” to “Seig Heil”.

[fwdude]

Then ban funding for this school. WE pay for it with our taxes.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Fightin Whitey]

So they are intolerant in the name of tolerance?

"We must suppress this speaker in order to remain "tolerant and welcoming".

No doubt they would stifle Cecil Adams as well....

[servo1969]

Here is a classic Mike Adams story:

I sometimes ask my students, ‘Do you believe a man can legally become a woman by having his penis removed? For those who say ‘yes,’ if we surgically attach his penis to his forehead can he then become a unicorn? If not, why not?

[cgbg]

It sounds like they need to add a “U” to LGBT. :-)

[Oatka]

Heckler’s veto” refers to a situation involving a government official who allows a hostile audience’s reaction to shut down or silence an unpopular speaker.

IMO, in many cases, when the authority, govt or private, fold "lest someone be offended", it is a cover for their own biases.

[A_Former_Democrat]

He should sue the U for violation of First Amendment rights. This would stop this crap REAL quick

[Road Warrior ‘04]

U of M = Berkley of the Northwest! Yes, that’s what it’s called!

[Bookshelf]

In the old days the FBI f-ups were sent to the field office in Butte, Montana. It was a sure indication that their days in the Bureau were numbered. But why Butte? It seems every aging IWW and CIO Communist fanatic chose the place to raise hell with the mining industry. When the radicals got tired of raising hell, they just retired in Montana, and their red diaper babies can today be found throughout the state and in its schools.

[BwanaNdege]

It would not have worked.

Angela Davis was holding all the ‘Cards’.

Oppressed Woman Card
Oppressed Black Card
Victim of McCarthyist ‘witch hunt’ perpetrated by Joe McCarthy’s acolyte, Richard Nixon