October 16, 2006
Thugs and Free Speech IV Posted by John Steele Gordon at 11:15 AM EST I will accept Mr. Smoler’s version of the incident in Florida in 2000, and I deplore it as well. I will take up the subject of the Supreme Court’s “notorious” decision at a later date, and I agree that voting is, in a metaphorical sense, a form of “speech.”
But right now, I continue to await a list of incidents in which right-wing students have prevented left-wing speakers from actually speaking. As I wrote numerous posts ago: “I would be genuinely interested in learning instances in which right-leaning students have sought to prevent leftist speakers from having their say.”
Can Messrs. Smoler and Zeitz give me any examples, or is the mob silencing of speakers on college campuses a left-wing phenomenon in recent decades?
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