Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Professor Injured In Middlebury Riot Over Charles Murray Defends Rioters, Blames Trump | Daily Wire

Professor Injured In Middlebury Riot Over Charles Murray Defends Rioters, Blames Trump | Daily Wire:
"...But Stanger’s now working to justify the students, or at least provide an explanation of their behavior that doesn’t begin and end with “they’re idiot leftist snowflakes”:
Image result for Trump Faults MemesIn the days after the violence, some have spun this story as one about what’s wrong with elite colleges and universities, our coddled youth or intolerant liberalism. Those analyses are incomplete.
Really? 
What, pray tell, have we all missed?
Trump, of course.
Political life and discourse in the United States is at a boiling point, and nowhere is the reaction to that more heightened than on college campuses. Throughout an ugly campaign and into his presidency, President Trump has demonized Muslims as terrorists and dehumanized many groups of marginalized people. He declared the free press an enemy of the people, replaced deliberation with tweeting, and seems bent on dismantling the separation of powers and 230 years of progress this country has made toward a more perfect union. Much of the free speech he has inspired — or has refused to disavow — is ugly, and has already had ugly real-world consequences. College students have seen this, and have taken note: Speech can become action.
But this ignores certain basic facts. 
First off, violence on college campuses against conservative speakers predates Trump’s rise..."
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