Marc Thiessen: In Berkeley, Shapiro spoke but Antifa won
Indeed, Middlebury College has already shown Antifa how it can shut down events on its campus with threats of violence. In its newly issued “
Interim Procedures for Scheduling Events and Invited Speakers” (which might be better titled “Interim Procedures for Getting Conservative Events Cancelled”), the school announced that it will conduct a special review of “any events that are a likely target of disruption, threats, violence, or other acts of intimidation, or are likely to draw unusually large crowds.” It adds that it will implement security procedures and that “only in cases of imminent and credible threat to the community that cannot be mitigated by revisions to the event plan would the president and senior administration consider canceling the event.”
Here is what Antifa heard: if we pose an “imminent and credible threat,” we can cancel events at Middlebury.
Nowhere in Middlebury’s procedures was there an echo of the message Berkeley’s Chancellor delivered before Shapiro’s lecture: “We will not tolerate violence, and we will hold anyone accountable who engages in it.” Little wonder, as this is the same school which allowed radical students to
shut down a speech by my AEI colleague, Charles Murray, with near-total impunity. He and the professor who invited him were attacked by a mob as they left the building, including students wearing ski masks. The professor had to be taken to the hospital. No one was suspended or expelled. Indeed, Murray recently
pointed out that “only one school, Claremont McKenna, has suspended or expelled students who have shut down speeches, participated in violent riots, or physically threatened speakers over the last few years.”
Commie professors letting their little baby commies do their dirty work while the college admins try to wash their bloody hands and pose as keepers of the flame of free thought and free speech.
roflmao
