Wingnut: Liberal student "storm troopers" silence conservatives on "Stalinist gulag" campuses

[marmar]

from the wingnut-friendly OneNewsNow of the American Family Association:



Simian students throw feces at conservative speakers
Don Feder - Syndicated Columnist - 3/25/2009 10:20:00 AM


On March 11, I joined a growing fraternity – conservatives who've been prevented from speaking on college campuses.

Student storm troopers have become the final arbiters of who may speak and what views may be expressed in academia – once dedicated to free inquiry and open discussion, now as intellectually open as a Stalinist gulag. The academic archipelago?

I was invited by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Republicans and Young America's Foundation to speak on hate crimes laws as a threat to free speech and religious freedom.

That there is a national epidemic of hate crimes incited by hate speech – which drastic action is needed to curtail – is sacred dogma for the sensitivity goons.

To question these assumptions is sacrilege. When challenged here, leftists react like Muslims in a murderous rage over Mohammed cartoons.

That does a lot to explain what transpired when I tried to speak at the collegiate zoo in Western Massachusetts – that and the fact that the administration refuses to keep the animals leashed.

Half of the audience of 300 came not to listen, question or debate, but to disrupt. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=464908 (if Rick-rolled by the AFA's anti-reality filter, you can find the story at www.afa.net in the onenewsnow area)

[msongs]

1. Don Feder had the holocaust and inquisition on his side, weren't those enough for him? nt

[noamnety]

2. through the looking glass

"there is a national epidemic of hate crimes incited by hate speech – which drastic action is needed to curtail – is sacred dogma for the sensitivity goons."

Do I have this right? This guy would like the university to take drastic action to curtail the free speech of the folks who are speaking out against him?

And the subject of his speech was how we shouldn't take drastic action to curtail certain kinds of speech?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. That's not what I make of it.

I think he's saying that the "sensitivity goons" believe that there is a national epidemic of hate crimes incited by hate speech, and therefore hate speech needs to be curtailed.

[noamnety]

8. I understood that - his intent in that quote.

But I think now that he suddenly feels targeted by what he considers "hate speech" (words spoken in a "muslim-like murderous rage" :eyes:) - he thinks there should be a special exception for people in his circumstance.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. I see what you're saying. I thought you had missed a turn in his scrambled

syntax.

It gets you into weird territory--is heckling free speech, even when it shuts down someone else's opportunity to be heard?

[margotb822]

4. As far as I can tell

He was high when writing this. It barely makes sense...

[bluestateguy]

5. I have no idea how accurate this guy's story is

but I am not a fan of heckling speakers. Nobody has ever shown me that heckling accomplishes anything productive--other than to make the hecklers look like juvenile whiners.

[greenman3610]

6. I agree. Never heard of this clown, but

I say, let them speak, if they're naked and raving, we'll
lock em up.

[gratuitous]

7. So he didn't speak

Did he pocket the honorarium anyway?

[beam me up scottie]

10. My heart bleeds.

Some of the protestors had flyers pinned to their tiny chests to represent the victims of hate crimes. "My name is Hollywood Montrose, and I'm a bisexual, bi-racial, bi-lingual transgendered person of color who was stabbed 27 times because the Family Research Council says gays can change."

Among other antics, a barefoot girl tried to bring a rat into the lecture. Rumor had it that Rat Girl planned to let the rodent loose to raise the level of discourse. Then again, perhaps it was her boyfriend. Besides supporting cross-dressers, activists are in to cross-species dating.

March 11 was my bar mitzvah under fire. Here are some of the other conservative speakers who've experienced the open-minded student body of today.

• In 2005, at the University of Connecticut, Ann Coulter called it quits 15 minutes into a lecture to 2,600, when boos and jeers made it impossible for her to continue. She switched to a question-and-answer session. "I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am," Ann joked. She'll be in 7th heaven if she ever speaks at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Horowitz notes the stark political imbalance of most faculties, writing in 2006: "Tulane Law School – one of the institutions I visited this spring – has not a single Republican or conservative faculty member; the Duquesne Law School – where I also spoke – has one. The students I met at the University of Michigan could not identify a single conservative on their faculty, although they could name several Marxists....Out of 15 professors in the Department of Political Science at the University of Richmond, a private school with a decidedly conservative student body, there is one Republican."

Ahh, progress...

[mitchum]

11. "I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am" ...

that's why Coulter loves guy talk with Hannity

[beam me up scottie]

13. Yeah, there's not too many for her to choose from.

And not many who want to get that close to her.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Spoken like a true brownshirt of 1930's Germany

Go back and look at the ravings of proto-Nazis in pre-war Germany.

You'll see the same arguments, language and fearmongering.