Middlebury College professor injured by protesters as she escorted controversial speaker

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Addison County Independent:

March 3 2017

 

CHARLES MURRAY LOOKS out on an audience in Wilson Hall Thursday of students who had turned their backs on him and chanted their disapproval. He was relocated to another room, from where his discussion with Prof. Allison Stanger, below, was broadcast. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

 

Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she was escorting a controversial speaker from campus. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.

 

Charles Murray, a political scientist who has been criticized for his views on race and intelligence, was invited to speak on campus by a student group. He was greeted late Thursday afternoon outside McCullough Student Center by hundreds of protesters, and inside Wilson Hall, students turned their backs to him when he got up to speak.

 

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As Stanger, Murray and a college administrator left McCullough Student Center last evening following the event, they were “physically and violently confronted by a group of protestors,” according to Bill Burger, the college’s vice president for communications and marketing.

 

Burger said college public safety officers managed to get Stanger and Murray into the administrator’s car.

 

“The protestors then violently set upon the car, rocking it, pounding on it, jumping on and try to prevent it from leaving campus,” he said. “At one point a large traffic sign was thrown in front of the car. Public Safety officers were able, finally, to clear the way to allow the vehicle to leave campus.

 

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I have serious doubts any of these thugs have ever read (assuming they can read above a 4th grade level) anything Charles Murray has ever written.

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The scene at Middlebury
Scott Johnson
March 4 2017

I was in the audience when William Rusher and William Shockley took the stage of an auditorium to debate at Yale in the spring of 1974. I arrived early knowing it would be difficult to get a seat and waited patiently for the event to begin. My patience was not rewarded, however, as the event was shouted down. The fascist aura in the auditorium and on the street among the protesters visible on the sidewalk outside was like nothing I had ever experienced.

The event prompted a soul searching among the powers that be at Yale, recalled by my daughter in “This is not a debate.” It culminated in the Woodward Report on freedom of expression at Yale and in the university’s rededication to free speech. Unfortunately, we are now deep into the backsliding at Yale and elsewhere, such as Middlebury College.

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Murray’s appearance was prefaced by a couple of Middlebury students who made impressive statements. In between the statements of the two students Middlebury president Laurie Patton spoke. Patton must have had a foreboding. Patton warned the assembled multitude that disruption of such an event violated college policy.

When Murray took the stage student fascists in attendance nevertheless prevented Murray from speaking. Their barbarism and stupidity ruled the day, as one can see in the video shot from inside the auditorium.

On Twitter Murray observed that the students were “seriously scary.” I don’t think he was even referring to the savages inside the auditorium, though perhaps he was. His “getaway” car was attacked as he sought to depart. Murrays’s campus host — Professor Allison Stanger — did not escape unscathed. She was injured in the getaway.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpdZrFLZ5bE

 

The solution to bad speech is more speech.

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Google; Thomas Sowell Race And Culture

 

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WARNING Evil Secret Socialist Trump Hater and Not True American Bill 'I what to see America great' Kristol

TOS: Bill Kristol

Sep 11, 2016

 

The American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray discusses our current political moment.

Chapter 1 (00:15 - 33:22): Working Class Decline
Chapter 2 (33:22 - 44:36): A Universal Basic Income?
Chapter 3 (44:36 - 1:00:45): From Tea Party to Trump
Chapter 4 (1:00:45 - 1:10:55): The Bell Curve Revisited

In his second conversation with Bill Kristol, American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray discusses the state of American civic life and how this can help us understand the current political moment. Murray explains how the decline of communities, the effects of immigration, and the growth of anti-trade sentiment have fueled populist impulses in 2016. Kristol and Murray also revisit Murray's prescient The Bell Curve (1994) and discuss how cognitive ability might affect American life in the future.

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The Meaning of Murray at Middlebury
Steven Hayward
March 4, 2017


The shameful episode involving Charles Murray at Middlebury sends me back to several things. First, The Bell Curve itself, which virtually none of Murray’s critics have bothered to read—certainly not the six-figure-salary hacks at the direct-mail-hysteria-dependent Southern Poverty Law Center who call Charles a “white nationalist,” ignorant that he is the father of mixed-race children, which rather disqualifies him for the white supremacy club I should think.

The shameful episode involving Charles Murray at Middlebury sends me back to several things. First, The Bell Curve itself, which virtually none of Murray’s critics have bothered to read—certainly not the six-figure-salary hacks at the direct-mail-hysteria-dependent Southern Poverty Law Center who call Charles a “white nationalist,” ignorant that he is the father of mixed-race children, which rather disqualifies him for the white supremacy club I should think.

 

Charles answered the revived distortions of The Bell Curve a year ago in this piece, but if you have a copy I recommend reading the entirety of Chapter 13, or, if you’re very short of time, pages 297 and 314-315.

 

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Here are the two segments of the show, including Charles’s answer to my query as to why the old distortions about The Bell Curve have been revived. And much else besides that now sounds prophetic in retrospect, including the lack of courage on the part of liberals to stand up to the ruinous faction on their left fringe.

 

“Charles Murray in Conversation”

 

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Reflections on the revolution in Middlebury
Charles Murray
March 5, 2017

A few months ago, AEI’s student group at Middlebury College invited me to speak on the themes in Coming Apart and how they relate to the recent presidential election. Professor Allison Stanger of the Political Science Department agreed to serve as moderator of the Q&A and to ask the first three questions herself.

 

About a week before the event, plans for protests began to emerge, encouraged by several faculty members. Their logic was that since I am a racist, a white supremacist, a white nationalist, a pseudoscientist whose work has been discredited, a sexist, a eugenicist, and (this is a new one) anti-gay, I did not deserve a platform for my hate speech, and hence it was appropriate to keep me from speaking.

 

Last Wednesday, the day before the lecture was to occur, I got an email from Bill Burger, Vice President for Communications at Middlebury. The size and potential ferocity of the planned protests had escalated. We agreed to meet at the Middlebury Inn an hour before the lecture so that we could go over a contingency plan: In the event that the protesters in the lecture hall did not cease and desist after a reasonable period, Professor Stanger and I would repair to a room near the lecture hall where a video studio had been set up that would enable us to live-stream the lecture and take questions via Twitter.

 

Here’s how it played out.

 

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I stood at the podium. I didn’t make any attempt to speak—no point in it—but I did make eye contact with students. I remember one in particular, from whom I couldn’t look away for a long time. * She reminded me of my daughter Anna (Middlebury ’07) — partly physically, but also in her sweet earnestness. She looked at me reproachfully and a little defiantly, her mouth moving in whatever the current chant was. I’m probably projecting, but I imagined her to be a student who wasn’t particularly political but had learned that this guy Murray was truly evil. So she found herself in the unfamiliar position of activist, not really enjoying it, but doing her civic duty.

 

The others…. Wow. Some were just having a snarky good time as college undergrads have been known to do, dancing in the aisle to the rhythm of the chants. But many looked like they had come straight out of casting for a film of brownshirt rallies. In some cases, I can only describe their eyes as crazed and their expressions as snarls. Melodramatic, I know. But that’s what they looked like.

 

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* A Moron. No Idea who Charles Murray is, who (I strongly suspect) 3 days before the riot had never ever heard of Charles Murray. In other words a fine example of the modern educational system.

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The question is how long will it be before there is violent push back...ie someone is shot? I believe there are those in the proregressive movement that want a violent push back. They have no idea of what that would be like.

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DEMOCRAT PROFESSOR INTIMIDATED BY LEFTWING MOB, BLAMES TRUMP.

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The attack eventually sent Stanger to the E.R., where she ended up on painkillers and wearing a neck brace. She paid for her defense of free speech in a way few of us ever have to.

But then this, from the end of her report:

"To people who wish to spin this story as one about what’s wrong with elite colleges and universities, you are mistaken. Please instead consider this as a metaphor for what is wrong with our country, and on that, Charles Murray and I would agree. This was the saddest day of my life. We have got to do better by those who feel and are marginalized. Our 230-year constitutional democracy depends on it, especially when our current President is blind to the evils he has unleashed."

The left attacks its own… because Trump.

 

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Dear Dr. Stanger

 

Just what Evil has he unleashed? Please provide concrete examples with sources.

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The Foundations of the Campus Free Speech Crisis
Mar. 8 2017

How did college campuses become such intolerant spaces? On Monday night, TAI contributor Jonathan Haidt considered that question on Charlie Rose with guest host Dan Senor and New York Times columnist Frank Bruni. Asked why it is so difficult to support Israel publicly on campus, Haidt makes one particularly important point:

 

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But Haidt observes something even more fundamental about the simplified and indeed simplistic nature of how today’s students are taught to think (if one can even call it thinking). The issue of Israel is an instructive example. The country’s conflict with the Palestinians is one of the most complicated political debates of our time. In a healthy academic environment, there would be lots of ideas and opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as students and faculty use different approaches to grapple with the controversies. But on today’s campuses, there has been essentially one acceptable position for many years. Increasingly, this is becoming true about a host of issues, and Haidt’s explanation of why that is the case is one of the most persuasive we have heard.

 

* The entire conversation is worth your time. Here it is:

 

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* Bear in mind this is The Charlie Rose Rose Show....ie from the Left....ie ain't Rush Limbaugh.

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A Middlebury update

 

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Dear Middlebury Community Members,

 

I write to let you know that the reason my wife Allison Stanger cannot be “listening and connecting” with all of you who have written or called is that she had to go back to Porter Hospital ER yesterday afternoon, where she was diagnosed with a concussion. As a result, she had to cancel her class and office hours today. Allison thanks you for all your notes of support and concern and hopes to respond properly when she is physically able to do so.

 

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RCP: The Hate Group That Incited the Middlebury Melee
Carl M. Cannon
March 19, 2017
Under different circumstances, Alabama civil rights lawyer Morris S. Dees and American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray might have been colleagues, even pals. Instead, Murray found himself in a near-riot at Middlebury College after accepting a speaking invitation from Republican students at the Vermont school. Students and faculty galvanized by Dees’ political organization barred Murray from speaking. They shouted him down, chanted their own manifesto, and pulled fire alarms to prevent him from being heard.

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Dees also started a nonprofit, which he named the Southern Poverty Law Center. But he gave up neither the high life nor the direct-mail business. He lives in luxury with his fifth wife and still runs the SPLC, which has used the mail-order model to amass a fortune. Its product line is an unusual one: For the past 47 years, Morris Dees has been selling fear and hate.

The business model is simple, albeit cynical, and best illustrated by its most famous case. In 1987, a Dees-led legal team won a $7 million judgment against the Ku Klux Klan in a wrongful death suit on behalf of Beulah Mae Donald, the mother of a 19-year-old kid murdered by members of the racist group. But the defendants’ total assets amounted to a building worth $52,000. That’s how much Mrs. Donald, who died the following year, received. But Dees reaped $9 million for the SPLC from fundraising solicitations about the case, including one showing a grisly photo of Michael Donald’s corpse.

Today, the center boasts a treasury of more than $300 million, the richest civil rights group in the country.

But with the Ku Klan Klan literally out of business, how was the SPLC able to frighten people into still donating? That’s where the AEI’s Charles Murray reenters our story, along with many other mainstream conservative groups. Scaring the bejesus out of people requires new bogeymen, and lots of them.

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My Nomination For The Stupisest Comment

 

Decker

And here I though AEI was focused on supporting neocons selling never ending war in the Middle East. Now I learn it's dedicated to progressive anti poverty work. Learn something new every day!

 

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Student Protesters Ejected from Charles Murray Speech at Villanova U.
Aleister
Saturday, April 1, 2017

“No Murray! No KKK! No fascist USA!”

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Here’s how the student newspaper “The Villanovan” described the scene:

The highly anticipated lecture by conservative social scientist Charles Murray drew nearly 200 people to Garey Hall on Thursday afternoon and left several more standing outside. Public Safety officials were forced to begin turning people away 20 minutes before the event began.

As the guest took the podium, a group of protestors, including Associate Professor Gabriel Rockhill, Ph.D. and Adjunct Professor John Patrick Schultz, both of the University’s Philosophy department, stepped to the front of the room. Holding several signs between them, the group chanted over Murray, refusing to allow the lecture to continue. Audience members began to engage with the protestors, and at one point Murray was removed from the room. Fifteen minutes later the group, called “Nova Resistance,” was escorted outside by Public Safety officials, and Murray reclaimed the podium.

“Nova Resistance set out to show this afternoon that Charles Murray has no right to speak at Villanova,” the group said in a later statement. “By inviting Murray – after having rescinded an invitation to a queer activist, whose ‘free speech’ was apparently less important – Villanova offers his ideas the false veneer of respectability. We refuse to be complicit in our silence for the sake of the false niceties of academic conformism, or the fear of powerful economic and political forces framing ‘open debate’ on campus.

 

 

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In the first episode of The Liberty Files David French and his guest Professor Mike Adams explore the double standards that dominate the modern campus and how one professor fought back.

 

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Middlebury Becomes Muddlebury

Steven Hayward

May 13 2017

 

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Now comes word out of Middlebury College about the punishment to be meted out to the students who violently assaulted Charles Murray and sent Middlebury professor Alison Stanger to the hospital with whiplash and a concussion.  According to John Leo at Minding the Campus, the offending student are . . . going to have a letter of reprimand placed in their file. A temporary letter at that, as the letter will be removed if the student commits no further infractions before the end of the school year. No wonder Middlebury tried to keep the details of their “punishment” secret.

So that’s it rioters: if you get caught, Middlebury will . . . send you a letter! Written in disappearing ink. That’ll show ’em.

 

 

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I'd like to say this surprises me. I'd Really like to...but I can't.

 

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A letter of reprimand that will be removed if there are no further infractions before the end of the school year?  Do they mean the end of this school year??     So that would mean about 2 1/2 months.  Ahhh -- the pain!  The humiliation!  The regret!  The determination to never do such a thing ever again!