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NY Times’ Frank Bruni Stands Up For Free Speech Against Left-Wing Campus Mobs

Violent leftist mobs driving conservative speakers off campus is a story often sidelined by a liberal media reluctant to make the enemies of their conservative enemies look bad. An exception was made on the Monday, March 6 episode of the PBS talk show Charlie Rose, featuring New York TImes columnist Frank Bruni as a guest discussing the physical attacks committed during conservative scholar Charles Murray’s failed attempt to give a talk at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Fill-in host Dan Senor set the stage for his talk with the former White House correspondent Bruni, who often writes about higher education, and New York University Stern Business School professor Jonathan Haidt:

Good evening, I’m Dan Senor filling in for Charlie Rose. Last Thursday, Middlebury college experienced a scene that’s becoming increasingly familiar. Dr. Charles Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute was invited to speak. A massive protest greeted him. The intent was not to simply express peaceful dissent, but to shut down his speech. Dr. Murray and the Middlebury professor who interviewed him ran into a mob of protestors, several of whom physically assaulted Dr. Murray`s interviewer and forced her to the hospital. The incident and others like it bring into sharp relief a growing tendency on American campuses, an intolerance for freedom of speech and a challenge to intellectual diversity.

Bruni had some criticism for the rising intolerant generation on campus: “....I think it is also important to note that this is the generation that everybody gets a trophy generation, right? So, no one modulates themselves or thinks I should kind of retire in the public space, let other people have their say because everybody is, it`s very individualist sentiments like that. And then lastly, and Jonathan I think speaks to this much better than I can, there is not a lot of ideological diversity on a lot of the campuses where this is happening.

More here

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I guess you are trying to pimp pedophiles again.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

~FR~

Never heard of the ACLU, I guess.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Your suppressor in chief hero worship reveals your disdain for free speech.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

its certainly a rare occasion.

Kirsten powers sees what her fellow lefties are doing as problematic and wrote a book about it not long ago:

The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

amongst many yes, but so many in the same vein, that is---leftie's going overboard.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

~FR~

Never heard of the ACLU, I guess.

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

amongst many yes, but so many in the same vein, that is---leftie's going overboard.

Yes.... for example, not only do we have to accept trans people, but we have to accept Bruce Jenner as Kaitlyn as 'Woman of the Year'. They aren't satisfied until they push people beyond their limits.

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ORIGINAL: Nnanji

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

~FR~

Never heard of the ACLU, I guess.

I guess you just don't understand you have a very narrow understanding of the world.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/the_aclus_radical_roots.html

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The ACLU was founded in 1920 by leftwing activists, including socialists Norman Thomas and Crystal Eastman, lesbian social and peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, then-radical jurist Felix Frankfurter and communist Roger Baldwin....

“To understand this paragraph is to know why the ACLU is a scam...

“The ACLU does not believe in civil liberties. It is not fighting for an America with freedom and civil liberties. Civil liberties are only a tactic that the ACLU uses to undermine and overthrow America, in order to replace it with a totalitarian state that they will maintain ‘by any means whatever’. When the ACLU, on rare occasions, defends conservatives, it only does so for the long game in order to maintain a political environment that favors the eventual takeover of America.”...

It was because of the ACLU’s radicalism that Ronald Reagan’s architect of welfare reform, Bob Carleson, founded the American Civil Rights Union in 1998 as a counterforce. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese continues to serve on the ACRU’s board of directors and policy board.

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Civil liberties are only a tactic that the ACLU uses to undermine and overthrow America, in order to replace it with a totalitarian state that they will maintain ‘by any means whatever’.