I assume you have an opinion about the abortion issue.
I am asking that, for the purposes of reading this blog, you do not reference that opinion…on the grounds that it is written not about abortion but about free speech.
Excerpted from Bill McMorris’s article at freebeacon.com:
Pro-life demonstrators have been subjected to violence and vandalism at more than 50 college campuses since September.
Students for Life, the largest youth pro-life organization in the country, has tracked dozens of incidents on college campuses since the start of the 2018-2019 school year. Organizers have seen their displays stolen, destroyed, or vandalized, and some protesters have even been attacked for speaking out against abortion on campus. Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins said that “the pro-abortion fringe [is] turning to violence” at an alarming rate.
Free speech rights on campus have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, as conservative speakers and academics have been subjected to violent protests or blocked from holding events altogether. In March, President Trump signed an executive order directing agencies to review how universities handle free speech. The new policy will take steps to “ensure institutions that receive federal research or educational grants promote free inquiry.”
Try to imagine the uproar if 50 displays put up by students protesting “White supremacy” – or even a fraction of that number – were vandalized on college campuses around the country. And whatever you are imagining, multiply it many times over if liberal/left speakers were being prevented from airing their views on campuses.
Yet barely a word from mainstream media about any of this.
It’s as if…as if…most “journalists” in mainstream media don’t want the public to know this is happening, maybe because they share the vandal/violent/disruptive crowd’s views, so it’s okay to give them a free pass on their brownshirt-like actions.
When this behavior is allowed on college campuses, those campuses are not oases of free thought and the exchange of diverse ideas, they are indoctrination camps.
With great sadness, I note that many college campuses are firmly entrenched in the latter category.
Rather difficult to separate the cause and effect here Sir. Obviously evil is overwhelming good! And thanks to a site such as this one the ‘real’ news is showing up. The talking heads are employed to ‘make’ the story (or the ever popular ‘narrative’) instead of ‘reporting’ what is happening. We Americans have witnessed this transition since the mid-20th century. ‘Good news’ was originally a New Testament category (gospel) but has been dumbed-down by ‘evangelicalism’ . Now the culture has influenced the biblical standards rather than turning the ‘world upside down’ as reported in the fifth N.T. Book of Acts. Good can triumph over evil as we get back on track, which is the heart of this blog today and ‘real’ news. Thank you.