{"id":31701,"date":"2017-10-07T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T19:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31701"},"modified":"2017-10-07T15:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T19:39:30","slug":"destroying-your-own-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31701","title":{"rendered":"Destroying Your Own Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Examiner<\/a> is reporting today that Black Lives Matter<\/a> is experiencing a backlash after shutting down an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)<\/a> free speech event at the College of William and Mary<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Claire Gasta\u00f1aga, the shouted-down executive director of the Virginia<\/a> ACLU, said<\/a> “a public college like William and Mary has an obligation to protect the freedom of the speaker to speak,” and college president Taylor Reveley wrote the action prevented “hard questions” and a “debate where the strength of ideas” prevails.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What has college become?<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The disruption of the ACLU event in Virginia follows the February cancellation of a speech by then-Breitbart columnist Milo Yiannopoulos<\/a> at the University of California at Berkeley<\/a> after violence and property damage by his opponents and the shouting down<\/a> in March of political scientist Charles Murray at Middlebury College<\/a> \u2014 each incident attracting significant national debate, with older left-wing scholars such as Noam Chomsky<\/a> and some members<\/a> of Berkeley’s pioneering 1960s Free Speech<\/a> Movement arguing it’s wrong to censor others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The William and Mary Black Lives Matter chapter did not respond to a request for comment, but remained defiant in the face of growing condemnation Friday, posting a message to Facebook: “The right to free speech is a fundamental human right. However, speech that condones, supports or otherwise fails to explicitly condemn injustice must be directly confronted.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to go back to teaching American history and the U.S. Constitution in our schools. There is nothing wrong with confronting speech, but there is a difference between confronting speech and not allowing someone to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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