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I can’t tell from the video if anyone is physically assualting Mr. Gilchrist, but there is definitely some sort of physical altercation happening on the stage. Several members of the audience storm the stage at what appears to be the beginning of Mr. Gilchrist’s remarks.
This is Columbia University, one of the most presigious universities in our country. Everyone who stormed the stage needs to be suspended, anyone who actually threw a punch, or destroyed property needs to be prosecuted.
Notice the crowd is shouting “Nazi Racist KKK Go Away”. These are college students are they so clueless about history that they have no idea that they are emulating the very people they claim to dispise?
/kudos to the New York Sun for reporting this and making the video available.
It takes very little courage to form a mob, and even less brains, as we see from this example. Gilchrist may be all wet, or he may be a genius, but the students at Columbia didn’t bother to find out either. The mobsters apparently have no ability to respond to Gilchrist with reasoned arguments and contrary data, and so they did what any bully does — use violence to silence their intellectual superiors.
The epitome of Columbia’s intellectual nadir came from Ryan Fukumori, a junior at the university who told Johnson that Gilchrist and others who spoke at the event “had no right to be able to speak here.” Apparently Columbia doesn’t teach students about the Constitution, especially the First Amendment, any more. The College Republicans have a right to invite anyone they want to speak at their events, and the speakers have the right to speak without being physically attacked. Bear in mind that this university houses the most prestigious school of journalism in the nation, which should indicate a particular interest in supporting free speech.
Blue Crab Boulevard says it most succinctly:
Linking PostsThey have no right to be able to speak here: The words of a budding leftist storm trooper proud of storming a stage to silence someone else’s right to free speech at Columbia University.
