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Campus Chaos: Daily Shout-Downs for a Week
National Review ^ | October 12, 2017 | Stanley Kurtz

Posted on 10/13/2017 1:09:28 PM PDT by detective

The campus free-speech crisis is escalating. Last night’s disruption of Charles Murray’s speech at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor means that every working day for the past week has seen a significant shout-down. Disruptions are coming at a substantially higher rate than in the second semester of last academic year. The targets are also expanding. Now, in addition to suppressing visiting conservatives like Charles Murray, disruptors are silencing liberal speakers, university presidents, and teachers in their classrooms. The failure to properly discipline shout-downs of conservative speakers has licensed attacks on any event that demonstrators may choose to squelch.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: speech; thugs; universities
Organized, leftist paid thugs are assaulting people and shutting down speakers literally every day.

And no one is doing anything to stop it.

1 posted on 10/13/2017 1:09:28 PM PDT by detective
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And no one is doing anything to stop it.

When ALL activity is halted by the disruptors will they split into different disruption groups and begin shouting down each other?

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2 posted on 10/13/2017 1:24:46 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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No! It will be Utopia!


3 posted on 10/13/2017 1:29:57 PM PDT by aspasia
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The Modern American University
(New & Improved!)

The Socratic Method & The Scientific Method
Have Been Replaced
By the Shoutdown, the Temper Tantrum
The Rhyming Mantra Chant
and a Bike Lock in a Sock.


4 posted on 10/13/2017 1:35:23 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: detective

bkmk


5 posted on 10/13/2017 3:53:04 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: detective
no one is doing anything to stop it. Charles Cooke defends free speech here, adding that "they've never lost" in going to court to defend their first amendment rights.

Watch the reaction and you can tell university admins loathe going to court.

6 posted on 10/14/2017 10:47:32 AM PDT by aspasia
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