The Hysterical Campus - American college students are increasingly resorting to brute force, and sometimes criminal violence, to shut down ideas that they don’t like.

tenchineuro · 2018-09-19T12:21:31+00:00

I was the target of such silencing tactics two days in a row in 2017, the more serious incident at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and a less virulent one at UCLA.

The Rose Institute for State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna had invited me to meet with students and to give a talk in April about my book The War on Cops. Several calls went out on Facebook to “shut down” this “notorious white supremacist fascist Heather Mac Donald.” A Facebook post from “we, students of color at the Claremont Colleges” announced grandiosely that “as a community, we CANNOT and WILL NOT allow fascism to have a platform. We stand against all forms of oppression and we refuse to have Mac Donald speak.” A Facebook event titled “Shut Down Anti-Black Fascist Heather Mac Donald” and hosted by “Shut Down Anti-Black Fascists” encouraged students to protest the event because I allegedly “condemn [the] Black Lives Matter movement,” “support racist police officers,” and “support increasing fascist ‘law and order.’” (My supposed fascism consists in trying to give voice to the millions of law-abiding minority residents of high-crime areas who support the police and are desperate for more law-enforcement protection.)

[see article for details of the protest and the use of bullhorns (they don't say big red was there, but maybe she was)]

California is definitely at the forefront of this kind of nonsense. And I'm pretty sure it's a clear violation of the code of conduct and other rules, but we don't really live under the rule of law, the authorities decide which laws to enforce and against who they enforce them, and some groups can do whatever they want.

2018-09-19T13:27:20+00:00

To the inevitable claim that poverty causes gun violence, I responded that if students really believed in that causation, they should be concerned that mass low-skilled immigration was driving down wages for the American poor. That provoked a new chant: “Say it loud! Say it clear! Immigrants are welcome here.”

Faustian.

hixidom · 2018-09-19T12:29:47+00:00

Seeing what is happening to these institutions first hand makes it impossible for me to have pride in my degree (I'm 28, working toward PhD now). Too bad a whitewashed picture of academia is still being peddled to kids but, being run like corporations, they make a lot of money from the false image of fostering rational thought and passion for learning.

I8ASaleen · 2018-09-19T13:05:29+00:00

I support campus carry for exactly this reason. You may disagree with someone's beliefs but you cannot resort to violence.

2018-09-19T13:33:41+00:00

Like all bullies and/or dictators - if their retarded actions aren’t shut down they’ll just keep at it. Appeasement only makes things worse

skepticalbob · 2018-09-19T18:13:57+00:00

Walt is a natural language AI program. He uses language to categorize the content of articles by looking at its language. Walt says this article is opinion, agenda driven, and sensational. Walt doesn't think this article is journalism, wiki, or satire.

I'm in school studying education, one of the more liberal departments at any school. And I'm male. I'm having zero problems. Stop believing agenda-driven, sensationalist trash.

thrway_1000 · 2018-09-19T20:51:23+00:00

Archive -- https://archive.is/tkSYg

Terraneaux · 2018-09-20T05:42:08+00:00

I despise bootlicking cop apologists, but let them be heard.

How is this related to Mens' Rights though?

Title	The Hysterical Campus - American college students are increasingly resorting to brute force, and sometimes criminal violence, to shut down ideas that they don’t like.
Author	Imnotmrabut
Upvotes	111
Comments	9
Date	September 19, 2018 10:02 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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