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Originally Posted by rubecube

I find it amusing how conservatives have duped liberals again by trying to frame this as a free speech issue.

Invited speaker and guest are going to give a lecture, thugs prevent them from doing so. Those are simply the facts of the event, it's not a matter of "framing" them a particular way. There may be other aspects to this, but the prevention of public discourse is the part that matters most from where I stand.

And who are these mysterious arch-conservatives who are pulling the wool over everyone's eyes by "framing" this as anything from behind the scenes? Authors from the noted right-wing think tank that is The Atlantic? Or Bloomberg, which published its own rebuke?

This is pure paranoid delusion.

EDIT: Incidentally, here is the statement of principles that Middlebury's faculty (to their great credit) put together in response to this incident. See if you think they see free speech issues as being implicated: https://www.wsj.com/articles/middleb...ple-1488846993

Originally Posted by Middlebury Statement of Principles

The principles are as follows:

• Genuine higher learning is possible only where free, reasoned, and civil speech and discussion are respected.
• Only through the contest of clashing viewpoints do we have any hope of replacing mere opinion with knowledge.
• The incivility and coarseness that characterize so much of American politics and culture cannot justify a response of incivility and coarseness on the college campus.
• The impossibility of attaining a perfectly egalitarian sphere of free discourse can never justify efforts to silence speech and debate.
• Exposure to controversial points of view does not constitute violence.
• Students have the right to challenge and even to protest non-disruptively the views of their professors and guest speakers.
• A protest that prevents campus speakers from communicating with their audience is a coercive act.
• No group of professors or students has the right to act as final arbiter of the opinions that students may entertain.
• No group of professors or students has the right to determine for the entire community that a question is closed for discussion.
• The purpose of college is not to make faculty or students comfortable in their opinions and prejudices.
• The purpose of education is not the promotion of any particular political or social agenda.
• The primary purpose of higher education is the cultivation of the mind, thus allowing for intelligence to do the hard work of assimilating and sorting information and drawing rational conclusions.
• A good education produces modesty with respect to our own intellectual powers and opinions as well as openness to considering contrary views.
• All our students possess the strength, in head and in heart, to consider and evaluate challenging opinions from every quarter.
• We are steadfast in our purpose to provide all current and future students an education on this model, and we encourage our colleagues at colleges across the country to do the same.

A-####ing-men.