How do you mobilize students at a major university?
Evidently, one of the quickest ways is to have a speaker on campus who (gasp!) does not spout the hard-left party line.
Case in point: Penn State….as excerpted from Peter Fricke’s article at campusreform.org:
Unable to prevent Ben Shapiro from speaking at Penn State despite aggressive chanting, student protesters vented their frustrations by defacing flyers and throwing paper on the floor.
Hundreds of students showed up to attend the Wednesday night event hosted by Young America’s Foundation, leaving no room in the lecture hall to accommodate late-arriving protesters who had apparently planned to disrupt Shapiro’s address.
Video footage obtained by Campus Reform shows that rather than dispersing, the activists congregated just outside the room and began loudly chanting a series of increasingly hostile chants.
Next, the protesters tried a different approach, chanting, “shut it down!”…(which) provided Shapiro with an opportunity to contrast their professed desire for diversity with their desire to shut down “the one guy who has a diverse viewpoint,” adding that “they’re proving my point.”
“I find it astonishing when people decide to yell outside,” he told the audience, assuring them that “the attempt to shut down open debate is the mark of ideological fascists.”
The students also defaced several flyers, writing “Heil Shapiro!” on one featuring an image of Shapiro (which was also covered with swastikas and a Hitler moustache)…
FYI: The “hitlerian” Benjamin Shapiro is an observant Jew…which, given the BDS movement at Penn State and other campuses, probably enraged them even further.
Academic brownshirts. It is harder and harder not to remove that second “r”.
One other thing: if you want to get a complete rundown of the lunacy going on at college and university campuses around the country, www.campusreform.org provides one each week. Well worth your time.
