“Anti-hate” hooligans shout down hate crime speech
Where have we seen this before recently?
A speech by conservative writer Don Feder was disrupted by loud-mouthed “anti-hate” activists at the University of Massachusetts. His scheduled topic was hate crime legislation (he’s against it); but when obstreperous protestors entered the room, he took ‘em on.
Feder sternly redressed the crowd in his opening statement.
“You don’t stop someone from speaking who you disagree with,” he said, banging his hand on the lectern, “there’s something god-damn fascistic about people coming into a speech and deliberately trying to disrupt it.”
Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, was recently the scene of a similar fascistic tactic.
After repeated interruptions and increasing tension, the speech was cut short. As Feder pointed out, that could only happen at a post-modern institution of “higher” learning.
“These people know there’s no consequences, the only place this can happen is on a college campus, anywhere else these people would be arrested for disorderly conduct,” he said.
A clueless pair of collegians defended the shout-down.
“There’s absolutely no room for hate speech on this campus,” said winter 2008 graduate Natalia Tylim. Her friend, senior Katie Perry, concurred, adding “I think campuses are places for open-mindedness, and this is the opposite of that.”
Proving, once again, that irony is lost to liberals.
See also Tommy Devine’s eyewitness account.
h/t: Michelle Malkin