ACADEMIC BROWNSHIRTS ON PARADE (CONT.): RUTGERS

Ken Berwitz


This latest installment of Academic Brownshirts On Parade comes to us from Rutgers University – a school I am currently about ten minutes from (I\’m in between training sessions).  Here, via excerpts from Allum Bokhari\’s article at breitbart.com is what happened when a political conservative – a gay political conservative at that – dared to try and speak on campus:

Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos\’ tour of U.S.university campuses has started off with a bang. His first event, at RutgersUniversity in New Jersey, was disrupted by feminists and Black Lives Matterprotesters, who chanted slogans and smeared fake blood on their faces beforestorming out of the auditorium.

Yiannopoulos had been invited by the Young Americans ForLiberty at Rutgers to speak on “How the Progressive Left Is DestroyingEducation.” The event drew a huge crowd, with the line of students waiting toenter the venue stretching around campus. It\’s the first stage of Yiannopoulos “Dangerous Faggot Tour,” a series of speeches by the Breitbart Tech editor onU.S campuses, which have become hotbeds of regressive-left radicalism in recentmonths.

Midway through his speech, Yiannopoulos faced disruptionfrom a number of progressive activists on campus, who smeared fake blood ontheir faces and chanted “Black Lives Matter.” However, their chants weredrowned out by Milo\’s supporters, who fought back with their own chant: “TRUMP,TRUMP, TRUMP.”

After their two minutes of fame, the progressives stormedout of the auditorium, leaving a trail of red paint for the janitors to cleanup.

Walls, seats, and doors were also vandalised by theprotesters. Peaceful attendees who had come to hear a speech instead foundthemselves splashed with the fake blood. At least one attendee was allegedlyassaulted by a protester, who covered him in red paint.

The protests continued outside.

Personally, I could live quite well without the provocative name of Mr. Yianjopoulos\’ event.  And I certainly could live without Donald Trump being invoked.

But what gives me great pleasure here is that the protesters behaved in a way that usually results in a college or university declaring things “unsafe” and closing down the conservative voice these academic brownshirts cannot stand being heard.  When that didn\’t happen, and the students there to hear what Milo Yiannopoulos had to say were encouraged to out-chant the disrupters, they skulked off, leaving nothing but a trail of anger and vandalism – which seems to be far more important to them than exposure to diverse points of view.

But that does not mean they won\’t try again at Rutgers and it doesn\’t mean they won\’t be successful again.  They certainly have been in the past.

Academic Brownshirts:  I have to admit it is harder and harder not to remove that second “r”.

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