Hailing Frequencies
Here’s a footnote to Monday’s post on Ben Shapiro’s attempts to discuss free speech with Christina Hoff Sommers at DePaul University. And specifically, the claim that his visit would be dangerous, and therefore impermissible, because the university doesn’t have sufficient security staff to protect either the speakers or their audience from harassment and thuggery by its own students.
Well, it turns out that DePaul did manage to scrape together 30 burly chaps in order to repel, as Shapiro puts it, “a 5’9” Jewish guy.” You see, in modern academia, you mustn’t be allowed to discuss censorship and intolerance in modern academia. Because of “security concerns.” At a lecture with no visible protesters. In case you’re wondering, Mr Shapiro ended up having to Skype Dr Sommers from several blocks away, at which point they had a brief online chat for the benefit of the audience, before relocating the event, along with the audience, to a nearby off-campus theatre, where the discussion could take place as intended. The Skype chat starts around 32:38.
And do note the YouTube warning, informing us that the video is “unlisted” and that you should therefore “think twice before sharing.”
Update:
Here’s more of Mr Shapiro, filmed last night at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where things got lively. And where leftist protestors tried to prevent non-students from attending the lecture, and then blocked the stage, before finally conveying their righteousness by pounding on the floor. And note Shapiro’s comment about the protestors’ evident privilege when it comes to disruption and impunity. Do we think that a conservative protest against a leftist speaker, with protestors acting in the same manner, using the same tactics and comparable language, would be accommodated in a similar fashion? Without consequences?
Rules are for the little people, you see.
Update 2:
A white female journalist, Vicki McKenna, was covering the UW-Madison event. Here’s how she was treated by the leftist protestors. And again, note the behaviour of campus security.
You see, in modern academia, you mustn’t be allowed to discuss censorship and intolerance in modern academia.
The first rule of fight club…
And they think Trump is dangerous?
30 burly chaps? That’s a little sexist and exclusionary don’t you think?
why were the women and trans people not allowed to risk their precious necks if it got violent?
Oh wait…I think I`m seeing a pattern here,burly white men are the scum of the earth until there`s some violence to be done then they`re the go to guys, right?
These people need to start fighting their own battles and stop hiding behind the white men who have gifted them the freedoms to behave like arseholes while attacking those very same white men.
Hailing Frequencies
In Star Trek isn’t it always the bad guys who try to jam communications?
in order to repel, as Shapiro puts it, “a 5’9” Jewish guy.”
Why “Jewish”. Is that meant to imply that as well as being only 5’9″ he’s also weedy and weak? Perhaps even cowardly? That sounds rather anti-semitic to me. Mr Shapiro should reflect on his words.
For private universities, such behavior is legally permissible, I suppose. For change it’s going to have to be parents of potential students and alumni who do the “dirty” work. See, e.g. Mizzou’s enrollment decline and loss of endowment contributions.
burly white men are the scum of the earth until there`s some violence to be done then they`re the go to guys, right?
For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!”
But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot;
An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please;
An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
The post-Skype relocated Shapiro / Sommers lecture can be viewed here.
Mr Shapiro should reflect on his words.
Mr. Shapiro, being an orthodox Jew, was likely mocking them.
Woman and minority hardest hit.
Heh.
Universities have no reason to put an end to this nonsense. Aside from being ideological fellow travelers/minions the thug students are walking dollar signs. Turn off the faucet of government guaranteed student loans and you solve the problem. However, as it stands there is no monetary incentive for universities to expel any of their golden geese.
I do wonder though, what might happen if the students ever turned their irrational ire on university staff, would they still cleave to the money fount?
@Deborah
You are correct, of course, but it’s worth remembering that the student loan scam ensnares parents as much, if not more than their children. Financial aid packages normally include a “family contribution,” which for middle class families is not doable without the “helpful” parental government loan. Parents need to refuse to sign off on these things and guide their kids to better choices. Unfortunately, too many parents fall into the trap of believing they’re bad parents if they don’t mortgage the farm to send Junior to Commie U.
I think that the proposals that say colleges need some sort of skin in the game plan (if the student defaults on the loans the university is on the hook) make sense. I bet tuition would go down and some administrators (hopefully those in charge of diversity-like tripe) would get fired.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/06/10/colleges-need-skin-in-the-game/
If protesters according to the imagination of DePaul faculty do not appear, then “protesters” will be conjured in the form of security. Reality must conform to the delusion, dammit.
Still so very glad I attended uni back in the bad old days, when anyone came to campus and could speak, and we analyzed poems, plays, etc., by the words that were in them.
@Quint
So true. The glorious days when we smoked in graduate seminars and argued like old married couples before repairing to the nearest watering hole for more cigarettes, cheap beer, laughter and friendship.
Ah, but think of the speaker’s fees!!!
Is this what it’s like for non progs in uk? Is this just the American version ie in your face and louder version?
Meanwhile, on the higher education front in the UK . . . It seems there’s still hope.
I see on that Bum link that Chelsea’s being groomed to run for Congress…AFAIK, she’s a complete dip, void of personality and charisma, so no doubt she’ll do well.
Mein cough-inaudable
You can’t debate here zis iz a uniwersity!
For just the price of a substantial mortgage payment, you can sponsor a millennial…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RGvrmltfMrA
R. Sherman,
I voted Polly…. and… she’s winning! Woot!
Thank you for this Shapiro & Sommers link David.
First, Trump wins.
Then Piers Morgan makes total and complete sense.
Can SMOD be far behind?
Thank you for this Shapiro & Sommers link David.
Happy to oblige. See also Monday’s post for plenty more.
First, Trump wins. Then Piers Morgan makes total and complete sense.
The fabric of reality is really taking a hit.
And what ungodly hour is it where you are, di?
Just after midnight. I’ll slouch into bed in a tick.
Sweet dreams, madam.
Thank you for this Shapiro & Sommers link David.
See also this, recorded last night. And note Shapiro’s comment about the leftist protestors’ evident privilege when it comes to disruption and impunity. Do we think that a conservative protest against a leftist speaker, with protestors acting in the same manner, using the same tactics, would be accommodated in a similar fashion? And without consequences?
Rules are for the little people, you see.
{{{delurking for a moment … it’s but a wee 9:36 pm on 11/17 in Kyoto}}}
it’s but a wee 9:36 pm on 11/17 in Kyoto
I hear voices from the future.
I hear the people singing. Something about a song of angry men. Also voices from the future, I suppose.
I’d much prefer hearing the fat lady warming up for our Clown Quarter friends.
A footnote to the DePaul and UW-Madison events:
Cowardice, yes, and of course complicity.
“Cowardice, yes, and of course complicity”
Jeeege, if you’d’ve added ‘willfully ignorant’ and ‘avaricious’ I’da thunk you were referring to the media.
A white female journalist, Vicki McKenna, was covering the UW-Madison event. Here’s how she was treated by the leftist protestors. And again, note the behaviour of campus security.
A white female journalist, Vicki McKenna, was covering the UW-Madison event. Here’s how she was treated by the leftist protestors.
Time to sue the university.
Time to sue the university.
We are, I think, approaching the point of total inversion. They aggress her, deliberately and repeatedly, acting as a pack and obviously delighting in physical intimidation – apparently because she’s white (and outnumbered) – while denouncing her, based on nothing, as a racist, a “white supremacist.”
That kind of mental dysfunction – dysfunction rewarded and reinforced by so-called educators – cannot be fixed.
Off topic sorry but WTF.
“I stopped for a moment, paralysed because I had no idea how to categorise them politically.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/trump-victory-stuggling-with-enemy-within-manhattan
I’d never be able to record these things, because I’d start swinging my cane.
Advantages in post student hiring . . . .
I’d never be able to record these things, because I’d start swinging my cane.
And remember, that’s why it’s called Angry Studies. The object is to turn credulous mediocrities into belligerent racist morons. The creatures you’ve been watching, these self-styled activists, the ones mouthing random slogans while indulging in a spot of sadism – they’re the intended end product.
“she’s a complete dip, void of personality and charisma”
Takes after her mother…
Just an anecdote
One of my friends (a Republican) in SoCal – you know, a deep blue state where the democrats have a stranglehold on everything – had a neighbor track him down on his morning walk and told him that he should not engage in any political discussion with him or his wife or “there will be blood spilled and then I’ll call 911.”
Then there’s Hillary supporters tracking down and harassing/threatening Electoral College voters
Just an anecdote
I can’t help thinking that it’s a bad idea to regard one’s voting preferences as an ersatz religion. Or as seen in the Vicki McKenna video, a cult.
. . . SoCal – you know, a deep blue state where the democrats have a stranglehold on everything . . .
Barring, of course, the complete lack of a state named “socal”, and in California, except for the areas that keep getting colored red.
When there are no Republicans on the ballot for state-wide office, I’d call that a “stranglehold”.