Posted on 03/08/2017 8:06:12 AM PST by reaganaut1
On March 2, there was one of those oh-so-revealing events that makes people realize that very bad trends are at work in America, trends that are corroding the essence of civilization.
Middlebury College in Vermont is a liberal arts school. The prolific author and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray was asked to speak at Middlebury and answer questions from faculty and audience members. He is used to confrontations, but could not have imagined how vicious things would get up in the Green Mountain State.
Inside Higher Ed’s story on the event explains that college officials admonished the students prior to the talk that they could protest but not disrupt Murray’s talk, which was to be about the way white America is coming apart—the title of his latest book—along class lines. Unfortunately, that admonition did no good. “As soon as Murray took the stage,” we read, “students stood up, turned their backs to him and started various chants that were loud enough and in unison such that he could not talk over them. Chants included:
Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Charles Murray go away!
Your message is hatred. We cannot tolerate it.
Who is the enemy? White supremacy!
Video of the ugly scene in the lecture hall is available here.
And then matters turned worse. Fearing that there might be a raucous, disruptive mob instead of an audience of students willing to listen and consider Murray’s arguments, school administrators had set up a contingency plan. Once it became clear that the mob had killed the lecture, they moved to another location where Murray would give his talk, which would be live-streamed to students.
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One of the professors was on Carlson’s show last night and said a bunch of them are circulating a petition and organizing to fight this crap on campus. Carlson was very impressed, so was I. It’s about time staff at these colleges started fighting back.
Tucker interviewed a black militant “lady” professor from Princeton about this. She tried to corner him as a racist. She hadn’t read the guys books and Tucker had a field day with her. She looked like a complete fool when he was done.
Eliminating all non academic departments in all of our universities would be a good start.
Remember when students who went to university were actually smart?
She looked like a complete fool when he was done.
Notice the news. When Trump responds to something with the truth, he is framed as the attacker.
Gulags of oppression in a sea of liberty. Middleburied.
Brown Shirt mobs are the vanguard of every totalitarian dictatorship.
Vermont just elected a Republican governor for the first time in a while. Why isn’t his administration looking into this. Its a crime. Campuses aren’t exempt from the laws that apply to the rest of the state.
Brown Shirt mobs are the vanguard of every totalitarian dictatorship.
That is true.
This time the “peasants” are armed with more than pitch forks.
The authorities deliberately and intentionally refuse to prosecute the criminals. This is done with full knowledge and awareness. It is because they support leftist ideology and tactics. Because of that, there will be a lot more.
There’s no point in a Liberal Arts education if students aren’t listening to a full spectrum of opinions with an open mind. That this protest against a speaker at Middlebury College, of all places, is beyond comprehension.
Wonder how many were actually students and how many college town hangers on.
And it will escalate. No one wants to be beat up and assaulted and they might fight back.
Unfortunately the professor seem to include everyone in his call for calm.
I wish Tucker had zeroed in on that and pointed out that only one side is going crazy.
So no cops, no expulsions, no arrests? The school facilitates fascism with its hands off approach. They get what they deserve.
How thin is the veneer of civilization?
Well the Middlebury incident is a good example. But as for me, well just imagine the EBT/SNAP cards not having any money or at the least all of those servers go ‘dark’.
In 24hrs the inner cities will be aflame, in 72 hrs most of the country will be too. In 10 to 30 days there will be a military ‘dictatorship’.
That’s how thin the veneer of civilization is to my mind.
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The only thing holding this country together is bread and circuses or, in our case, Welfare and Cable.
It’s more like the “Red Guards” than the Brownshirts.
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