Folks, it's official, we are entering the Age of Unlightenment.
My friend, a true feminist in the best sense of the word and a fearless defender of free
speech, Christina Hoff Sommers, was invited to speak at Lewis and Clark Law School this
week.
Here's what happened when she began her talk...
Putting aside the creepiness of the clone-like repetitive chanting from the protestors, their
use of free speech actually isn't a use free speech at all.
While of course they have a right to protest, your right to exercise your free speech doesn't
come at the expense of someone else's right to exercise theirs.
So what this means is, yes, you CAN peacefully protest outside of an event, you CAN silently
protest inside of an event, you CAN hold all the signs you want and you CAN encourage others
to join your cause.
You canNOT, however, use your freedoms to trample on the freedoms of others.
This chanting, which again took place before Christina had even begun to speak, reminded
me of when I was at UCLA with Milo two years ago.
Protestors screamed, spit, threw garbage cans, pulled fire alarms and even called in bomb
threats before we even took the stage.
Perhaps the most egregious, though, was the group of students who linked arms to create
a human wall to stop us and other viewers from even going inside the venue itself.
So apparently they aren't against walls, they just don't like Trump's wall.
Christina's talk continued through the chanting, and the protestors then broke out in song...
Quite a catchy tune wouldn't you say?
Of course, Christina Hoff Sommers isn't a fascist at all, she's just an old school liberal
who dare challenge modern day Leftist.
Ironically these people so keen on fighting fascism don't understand that they themselves
are the ones who are actually using fascist tactics of silencing and drowning out their
opponents until there is no opposition remaining at all.
But if you're still confused, here's a simple definition of fascism:
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial
power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce, which
came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
Do you think Christina is for dictatorial power?
Is she for forcible suppression of opposition?
To top it off she even works for the American Enterprise Institute, which is against control
of industry and commerce.
Now just think for a moment if the ideas that these students are espousing were the set
of ideas in power?
They actually would be for dictatorial control, as they believe their cause is the most just
and their opponents are simply evil.
How do you think it would be going for dissent and opposition in their system?
Perhaps the most insidious piece of the cultural marxism that we see spreading on college campuses
is that it is using the freedoms that our democratic capitalist society against itself.
Of course it would never offer the same protection to minority voices in the dystopian future
that it would bring.
While this event thankfully wasn't nearly as violent as when Milo when to UC Berkely
and the school burned down, or when it took 600K in security to ensure that Ben Shapiro
could speak there without threat, this display at Lewis and Clark is just another reminder
of how the backwards thinking of cultural marxism is coming for all dissenters, cloaked
in the mask of tolerance and diversity.
These incidences are happening at colleges all over the country and turning places of
higher learning into places where people are just getting high...on intersectionality.
Sadly, this story really only broke on right leaning blogs and was only shared by the usual
suspects who continually defend freedom of expression.
As of recording this, I haven't see any Left leaning websites that covered it.
The reason for this of course is two-fold, on one hand when you can win arguments by
silencing your opponents, your job is pretty easy, but also, and more importantly, the
good actors on the Left who want to call out events like this rarely do because they know
that the same tactics of smearing and silencing will be used against them as they are purged
from their former home.
Just ask former guests of mine like Bret Weinstein, Laura Kipnis, Lindsay Shepherd and others,
who dare speak out against this tyrannical faux diversity movement.
The silver lining though, of course, is that the more that people like Bret, Laura and
Lindsay speak out, the more room they give for people like you to do the same in your
life.
Speaking of Berkeley, I'll be there, tomorrow Thursday night, hosted by the the Berkeley
College Republicans.
I'll be joined by Heather McDonald and Steve Simpson.
We'll be live steaming the event right here at 8 pm pacific time.
Come join us and ask us as many hard questions in the Q&A as you'd like.
I only ask one thing, which is that if you sing make it a little snappier than what we
just heard.
A cover of Journey, Fleetwood Mac or Frank Sinatra would be preferable...