But really, its been here for awhile.
From the Times argus
MIDDLEBURY — Hundreds of Middlebury College students demonstrated ahead of a lecture by speaker Charles Murray, who some have called a white nationalist. Murray wrote “The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life” and “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.”
Before Murray spoke Thursday, students turned their backs on him and chanted, “Your message is hatred. We can’t tolerate it.” More than 450 alumni also signed a letter decrying the decision to bring Murray to campus.
The student group American Enterprise Institute Club invited Murray and the Political Science Department cosponsored the lecture. Middlebury College said the student group had a right to invite him.
“I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it” Attributed to Voltaire.
Such a statement would be considered racist today. How you ask? Good question.
Of course this behavior is and has been happening on college campuses all across the country for a long time.
Freedom of speech for me but not for thee.
This gentleman was quite a revolutionary in his day. Of course later on he himself was declared an “enemy of the people” and was shot after a show trail in 1938.
Of course if you are not going to allow certain speakers to speak on your campus, what about their books? Is it such a leap from shutting down their lectures to…
This?
I wonder what Peter, Pat, Phil, and Bernie, have to say about this? Their silence is deafening.
“The fascist of the future will be the anti-fascist” W. Churchill.