Posted on 03/03/2017 3:13:12 PM PST by grundle
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she was escorting a controversial speaker from campus. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.
Charles Murray, a political scientist who has been criticized for his views on race and intelligence, was invited to speak on campus by a student group. He was greeted late Thursday afternoon outside McCullough Student Center by hundreds of protesters, and inside Wilson Hall, students turned their backs to him when he got up to speak.
College officials led Murray to another location and a closed circuit broadcast showed him being interviewed by Stanger, the Russell J. Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics.
As Stanger, Murray and a college administrator left McCullough Student Center last evening following the event, they were “physically and violently confronted by a group of protestors,” according to Bill Burger, the college’s vice president for communications and marketing.
Burger said college public safety officers managed to get Stanger and Murray into the administrator’s car.
“The protestors then violently set upon the car, rocking it, pounding on it, jumping on and try to prevent it from leaving campus,” he said. “At one point a large traffic sign was thrown in front of the car. Public Safety officers were able, finally, to clear the way to allow the vehicle to leave campus.
“During this confrontation outside McCullough, one of the demonstrators pulled Prof. Stanger’s hair and twisted her neck,” Burger continued. “She was attended to at Porter Hospital later and (on Friday) is wearing a neck brace.”
Murray, who apparently was unhurt in the incident, is best known for his 1994 book, “The Bell Curve,” for which he was criticized for an assertion that people of different races have different economic outcomes because of their inherent difference in intelligence.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has called Murray a “white nationalist” who has used “racist pseudoscience.”
Hope there are videos.
Sounds like several criminal acts.
Will this be on national Control-LEFT news?
If so, what will be the spin? Controversial speaker disturbs snowflake’s safe zone.
The Bell Curve.
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I read the Bell Curve. (Unlike probably 99.9% of those who object to it)
Murray bends over backwards to explain the data without being racist. Truth is not racist. If you don’t like facts, you can’t make them go away just by calling the messenger a racist or a white supremacist.
IMO, the inherent problem is that people value other people based on wealth or intelligence or good looks or athletic ability. There will always be differences. Denying them is foolish. The effort spent screaming “racism” would be better spent in learning to value each person for himself/herself while still appreciating the differences in gifts that God has given us.
And how many arrests were made? We want to know.
No word on any arrests. Sounds like the usual “extreme restraint” by the police. They should have used force to stop the attack to start with and then arrested the rioters.
I’m reading Murray’s “By the People” now...interesting. Idiots against free speech attacking a woman.
Trump’s next target in the culture war must be the institutions of lower learning.
That is the way they want to have an honest “conversation” on race.
Are any DemocRATS going to be asked if they support this violence against free speech? Will any in the media be asked if they will condemn the actions of these protesters? When these things happen the RATS need to be pressed on this.
This is current? I could swear I remember him dying.
I think it’s time to form a group of volunteers to provide security and mete out rough justice
I’m sure the thugs will be arrested and expelled.
Nothing like the tolerance displayed by the left, is there?
Bottom line is studies have been done showing disparities in IQ between races, but no one dares talk about it... (That is until democrats feel safe enough to start their Nazi program out of the closet).
This is why planet of the apes has chimps as asians, Orangs as whites and gorrillas as blacks, but no one mentions how Hollywood is deeply racist and mysoginist, pushing out products for “dumb homemakers”.
I seriously doubt even .001 % of those who object to this book have read the book much less understand regression, the effect of variance on regression or any of the conclusions of this book.
If some people just kept their mouths shut it wouldn’t be so obvious how dumb they are. Violent people will never convince anyone that they are really smart.
Why are there no pictures of these high IQ people who assaulted the speakers?
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
These universities thought raising the level of discourse to this level was important.
Well, hope it was this important.
These universities are going to sooner or later deal with these snow-flakes.
I’m thinking some of these folks may have been off campus hoodlums too.
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