Students who wanted to hear Shapiro speak had to be ushered quietly into the lecture hall through a back door while unhinged student activists and faculty members screamed and tried to force their way through a police barricade protecting the front door.
As we reported earlier, the University tried to cancel/postpone the speech until they could assemble a left-wing panel to provide “balance;” something that is never done when left-wingers
ABC News in Los Angeles reported:
Shapiro arrived at CSULA and was speaking to the campus chapter of Young America’s Foundation on the topic of “When Diversity Becomes a Problem” when a fire alarm was pulled.
While the siren was sounding, Shapiro continued his speech, stating he would not be silenced.
“If this sort of thing happened during classes at this university, the kid who pulled the fire alarm would be off this campus so fast it would make your head spin,” Shapiro said. “But not you out there, the protesters, the special magical leftist children protected from the consequences of living in the real world with my taxpayer dollars. You get to shut us down for disagreeing with your thug tactics and your nasty, pathetic, evil ideology.”
According to tweets by Shapiro, protesters blocked entrances to the University-Student Union where he was speaking, attempting to obstruct those who wished to attend. Cameras captured shouting and pushing as intense interactions occurred between protesters and those attempting to attend the event.
After speaking for about an hour, Shapiro tweeted he had to be escorted by police from the campus for safety concerns.
Because the Left can’t win an argument if the opposing side is allowed to debate with facts, reason, and OMG truth. The left knows what is “right” no matter how much it is BS with no facts to support it. So the left has to resort to shutting others up by any means possible (screaming over them, denying them the opportunity to speak, by verbal threats, by physical threats, or using unethical CEOs (Twitter) or the Govt to silence people).
I would hate to be such an utter douche bag as those cry bully progressives but they seem to think they are winning by being a-holes and that it makes them hip and cool (bllecchh).
It’s because of two things, one being scrutiny (as stated by the author) of the Left’s ideology of fiction & experimentation. The other being the delusion of the Left that only they represent goodness/fairness therefore, that it’s okay to shut everything else down using tactics which might include violence. Never underestimate the Left’s desperation. There is, of course, the overall knowledge of the natural state of America’s stable conservatism, which was once considered suffocating, but no longer. From the 60’s until now, the Left has swung from supporting freedom from large government (“the Man”) to supporting large government & non-individualism. The Right has remained stable in its ideology. Pointing these things out to a Leftist is a waste of time, however.
This is so not true. The Left is not afraid of free speech. They just want to to STFU if you disagree with them.
What the Left wants isn’t democracy. It’s oligarchy. It’s the few demanding that the many cater to their neuroses.
This is why I love coming to this website. Good reads, good comments, I agree with probably most of everything that’s always said.
I’ll offer an even simpler solution, frankly. For a long time we’ve gone with the narrative that liberals aren’t bad people, they just have bad ideas given to them by bad leaders. Mean-spirited as it may sound, I think we honestly need to consider that the people who make up the hard-left might actually just be awful people.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to say what people do not want to hear.” -George Orwell
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing freedom of speech.” -Benjamin Franklin
I amused myself yesterday posting facts on Huff Po racists voices’ celebrations of trayvon Martin’s failed attempted murder. I was polite and civil calling out lies and distortions of both people.
Then I used Facebook’s own standards to get posts scrubbed and the haters warned/banned. Using their own “rules” against them.
Only way to fight them.
Peggy Noonan nailed it as only she can when she is focused. This long except from her recent column may not seem to be about free speech, but it actually is:
This business of “thought control” through manipulation of what you are free to say only by agreeing with the political correctness police has not gone down well well with the average “useful idiot” who is not eager to be a member of the useful idiot underclass.
I got a great chuckle from a “tweet” by Christina H. Sommers:
Colleges seems to be hellbent on nursing any little pimple of an “offense” which appears to go against the Progressive agenda.
Therefore, “feminist dance therapy” wins out because it is part of the great cultural purge of the “impure” thinking which must be stomped out in order to reach the ideological purity that undergirds the glorious revolution of Progressivism.
It is Noonan’s “protected class” which is weaving the narrative. Their gated community lives do not want to mix with the hoi polloi on any terms which they do not control.
But now, much to their shock and awe, a vox populi is rising against the establishment and it scares the living bejesus out of the protected class. For them, it is Donald Trump who must be silenced. He is reckless. His brashness might throw the whole protected class in with the common trash. Think of it. Hillary and Bernie and lapdogs among the Repugnants are part of the passing scene for the establishment. Trump doesn’t play by any of the rules. If you look through the establishment looking glass, Trump is narcissistic. He is a bully. He is brash. He is a boor. He is histrionic. He is asocial. He lacks remorse. He is self-absorbed. He is shameless. He is self-serving. He plays by a different set of rules.[Note: does this remind you of Obama?]
Yeah, maybe so, but the “unprotected class” hears him and they smell an entirely different rose. So, maybe Trump is responding to the psychological state of his supporters. So, maybe a huge chunk of the population is nuts in the eyes of the establishment. Maybe the establishment knows it is losing its control of the little people. Maybe the welfare and the speech codes and the whole manipulation of the culture has suffered a transmission breakdown. Maybe the emperor establishment has no clothes and they have no place to hide. Maybe this is how actual revolutions begin.
Heliotrope, may I promote that comment to a post?
This is true. In the story about the lecture for the late newscast on Thursday, KABC-TV reporter Leanne Suter interviewed several participants in the protest. A college-aged (presumably a CSULA student) Rubenesque chick declared “We’re not against free speech; not at all. We’re against hate speech!”. Yet, I’m willing to bet she couldn’t give a standard, objective definition of what constituted “hate speech” in the first place.
I’m sure that student could not come up with any objective definition of “hate speech.” It’s like obscenity or pornography: “I know it when I see it.”
But then, Progs don’t want an objective standard. They want the term to mean whatever they need it to mean at the moment.
Generally, “free speech” means the PC party line, and “hate speech” means any dissent.
V the K,
Yes, of course. I would value your take on it as well.
@ Tom: The Regressive Leftist definition of “hate speech” is “any speech that I hate.”
The days of political correctness is coming to an end, thanks to Donald.
And the next example of fascism, the corporate-statist kind, is imminently ascendant, also thanks to The Donald.