BREAKING: Campus Radicals Riot
Against Free Speech, Attack
Conservatives, Professor
Charles Murray is one of America's preeminent political scientists. Few have
spent more time trying to understand poverty in America. Murray has studied
the American welfare system and the industrial decay that took down the
Rust Belt. He's a figure that should be compelling to students on both the
left and the right.
But at Middlebury College, he was treated like a "white nationalist." As the
But at Middlebury College, he was treated like a "white nationalist." As the
Protesters shouted down and physically intimidated Charles Murray, the
prominent conservative political scientist, at Middlebury College on
Thursday evening.
The demonstrators attacked Murray and a professor, Allison Stanger, after
disrupting the evening's planned lecture and forcing a change of venue.
One demonstrator yanked Stanger by the hair. The professor was taken to
the emergency room as a result of the assault.
"One of the demonstrators pulled Prof. Stanger’s hair and twisted her neck,"
Bill Burger, the college's vice president of communications and marketing, told the Addison County Independent. "She was attended to at
Porter Hospital later and (on Friday) is wearing a neck brace."
Earlier, scores of protesters took over the lecture hall where Murray was
supposed to speak. When Murray approached the podium, they stood up
and turned their backs on him, drowning out his attempts to speak with
chants, jeers, and a lengthy denunciation of his "hate speech."
It got worse. As the American Enterprise Institute's Christina Hoff Sommers
noted:
the AP
How did the media react? As the Washington Examiner's Emily Jashinsky
notes, the AP reported as follows:
"College students protest speaker branded white nationalist," read the
Associated Press headline reporting on protests over a lecture by Charles
Murray at Middlebury College in Vermont.
Has Charles Murray been "branded" a "white nationalist?" Yes, that is
factually correct. But its veracity does not in any way necessitate its inclusion
in the headline.
That was a choice, predicated on unfair assumptions about Murray's career.
In fact, the headline is an obvious concession to the AP's decision to frame
the story as a matter of noble student protesters resisting a campus invasion
by some type of hateful bigot intent on spewing his racist propaganda.
Murray is paying the price for questioning left-wing orthodoxy. In the past, his
work might be grounds for a robust, contentious debate. Now it's clear that
liberals have decided that the debate is over, and that the college campus
is the Roman Colosseum, where conservatives are tossed to the lions and
the frothing mob of an audience indulges their most atomistic impulsees.
Read more at http://americanactionnews.com/articles/breaking-campus-radicals-riot-against-free-speech-attack-conservatives-professor#pVF2idc5etxi3gPD.99
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks for commenting. Your comments are needed for helping to improve the discussion.