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The biggest threat to free speech on campus isn't the administrators, though they bear responsibility for not reminding students who is in charge. No, the biggest threat is the students of any persuasion who don't understand rights as being inalienable to each individual. --Tom Knighton |
“They are killing us! This is ethnic cleansing!”
John Sexton provides coverage of the University Of Michigan fascists who shut down a presentation by Charles Murray. One snowflake contributed to the event by yelling “They are killing us!” - who "they" might be wasn't mentioned, but the snowflake in question was quite alive, and proved it by making an ass of himself before a room full of people. There's a video available within Sexton's story for those who want to update their definition of the word "snowflake":
In the following clip, one of the protesters is now standing up and yelling, “They are killing us! This is ethnic cleansing!” Another student responds, “I have a right to listen” at which point everyone starts shouting and it’s hard to make out what is being said. When it calms down a bit, the student in the back repeats that he has a “right to listen.” The protester is trying to rally his side with “They are killing us!” but the crowd seems to less enthusiastic. Just when you think it might settle down a bit, someone turns off the lights and a projector shines on the wall above Murray with the words “White Supremacist.”
That these brats were actually able to remove their pacifiers long enough to should and scream is, I suppose, encouraging. Future employers will doubtless be thrilled to discover one day that they have hired one or more of these blithering idiots...when said blithering idiots will start running around the office, lights out, arms flailing, screaming "They're killing us, they're killing us!"
Once again, Marxist thugs (the protest was sponsored in part by the fascist group By Any Means Necessary) win the day while making a mockery of academic debate.
Sara Noble reports on similar behaviour at Columbia, sponsored by fascist groups: It was an Antifa and Black Lives Matter example of really bad behaviour If you look at a lot of these Black Lives Matter members, they’re nasty white leftists. They shouted at the legitimate attendees (with a megaphone, yet) with profanity-laced language and utter contempt for the free exchange of ideas.
The target of Columbia fascists was alt-right [See Comments, below] Tommy Robinson, a Brit not known for his affection for Islam. Whatever he had planned to say was not heard by those who came to listen. (Breitbart also covered the story, so I have included the link in the Work Cited section below.)
Speech Can Be Violence (If you disagree with me)
If you follow free-speech controversies for any length of time, you’ll understand two things about public opinion. First, an overwhelming percentage of Americans will declare their support for free speech. Second, a shocking percentage of Americans also support censoring speech they don’t like. How is this possible? It’s simple. “Free speech” is good speech, you see. That’s the speech that corrects injustices and speaks truth to power. That other speech? The speech that hurts my feelings or hurts my friends’ feelings? That’s “hate speech.” It might even be violence. --David French
French reports the results of a new survey of college students, and they weren't pretty. The survey warms the cockles of one's heart as it shows that while virtue-signalling students proclaim 83% support for the First Amendment, nearly 60% of them believe that their colleges should "shut down" speech with which they disagree (which they call "hate speech").
If you thought "HYPOCRITES", give your mind a pat on the back.
And what is hate speech? The definition the students liked was staggeringly broad. Two-thirds agreed that hate speech is “anything that one particular person believes is harmful, racist, or bigoted.” They further agreed that hate speech “means something different to everyone.”
Think about that. The snowflakes who responded to the survey advocate banning "hate speech" on campus while, at the same time, concede that they cannot define the term.
What could possibly go wrong?
Speech Can Get You Expelled (If you disagree with me)
Bruce Bawer published a sorry tale which outlines how academic Marxism reacts to graduate student who, er, tells the truth. It's a long story, one which I urge you to read. What makes the story so interesting is the fact that the victim in the piece, knowing what he was going to be subjected to, recorded a session he had with one Eve A. Browning, who chairs the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Texas (San Antonio). The student, Alfred MacDonald, was raked over the coals because...
MacDonald admitted at once to having said to another student: “I don’t think highly of Islam because I am bisexual and could be legally put to death in about a dozen countries that use Islam for their legal system.”
How dare he!
The most damning bits of this piece are to be found in MacDonald's transcript, where the threatening and abusive behavior of the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Classics. Here's a taste:
EVE BROWNING: What does that have to do with her being engaged to a Muslim?
ALFRED MACDONALD: Nothing. I wasn’t talking about the engagement to the Muslim. I was talking about Islam in that particular moment.
EVE BROWNING: Well, let me just say that kind of thing is not going to be tolerated in our department. We’re not going to tolerate graduate students trying to make other graduate students feel terrible for our emotional attachments.
Take a few minutes to read Bawer's tale - particularly if you do not yet understand just how bad things have become in our universities.
The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum
While Bawer reported on a corrupt "progressive" academic, and illustrated her fascist nature, Tom Knighton's piece opens fire on the other side of the college coin: rampaging snowflakes:
Everywhere you turn on a college campus these days, you see administrators trying to silence folks they disagree with. These people are trying not only to kill academic freedom, but also to turn college campuses into nothing more than Leftist indoctrination centers....and...
The biggest threat to free speech on campus isn't the administrators, though they bear responsibility for not reminding students who is in charge. No, the biggest threat is the students of any persuasion who don't understand rights as being inalienable to each individual.
Knighton's had more than his share of experience with raging snowflakes, particularly at Evergreen State College, where he covered the racism being pimped by nasty, bat-wielding snowflakes. Check it out - it's a good read.
Work Cited
- Bawer, Bruce: 'Reading the Riot Act' to Truth-Tellers at UT San Antonio
- French, David: New College Student Survey: Yes, Speech Can Be Violence Montgomery, Jack
- Knighton, Tom: Biggest Threat to Campus Free Speech? Students, Not Administrators
- Montgomery, Jack: Alt-Left Activists Shut Down Skype Talk by Britain’s Tommy Robinson at Columbia University
- Noble, Sara: Fascist Antifa, Black Lives Matter Shut Down Video Speech by Tommy Robinson at Columbia
- Sexton, John: University Of Michigan Students Disrupt Speech By Charles Murray
Background Reading
- Snowflakes Are Useful Idiots: Index (0-60)
- The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals (Annoted)
- Protect Yourself From The Evil Patriarchy With The Brand New "Portable Safe Space" Available From Just $79.95
- "If fascism comes to America, it will be through our college and university system."
- The surprising history of ‘snowflake’ as a political insult
