As Twitchy reported, a mob shut down a speech by American Enterprise Institute fellow Charles Murray Thursday night at Middlebury College before jumping on and rocking the car taking Murray off campus and injuring a professor in the process.
We promise we’re not stalking Vox’s Matt Yglesias, but we did want to see just how old he is. If the Wikipedia page is correct, he would have been 13 or so when “The Bell Curve” was published and the liberal media went nuts, conducting the nearest they could come to a book burning without actually lighting the thing on fire.
That book alone would have ensured Murray his very own “extremist file” on the SPLC’s web site, and even today, as when it was published, academics and pundits don’t need to read it to know how racist it is.
It’s too bad there can’t be a meeting of the minds over Yglesias’ tweet about campus speakers, but it takes two to tango.
If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd say the real villains are the people who protested his on-campus speaking appearance anyway
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 4, 2017
(Look’s like it was memory-holed right before this post was published, so here’s a screen shot.)
@mattyglesias Are you really equating Charles Murray and Hitler?
— Sophophile (@sophophile1) March 4, 2017
@sophophile1 @mattyglesias That's exactly what he's doing. But Matty is cool like that.
— Mark Culham (@mdculham) March 4, 2017
@mdculham @sophophile1 I didn’t say anything about Charles Murray.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 4, 2017
This is an unusually obtuse series of responses, considering it’s coming from one of the trained “explainers” at Vox.
@mattyglesias What other recent an current protests of controversial speakers are you referencing then? Subliminal references…
— California Veteran (@Spiritof1620) March 4, 2017
@Spiritof1620 It’s a Clash song
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 4, 2017
the dope was paraphrasing joe strummer, who would have mocked Matty's politics with every fiber of his being. https://t.co/6J70fKGbcl
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) March 5, 2017
Yes, it’s a Clash lyric; well, the first bit about Hitler is — it’s all Yglesias from that point on. In any case, there’s been a misunderstanding, because Murray certainly seemed to think the tweet was inspired by his appearance.
This is a pretty amazing Tweet, given the timing of it. My body of work=Adolf Hitler's? Or am I being simple-minded about it? https://t.co/MC1ZRHWQxA
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) March 5, 2017
@charlesmurray It's just reducio ad absurdum, not direct comparision.
— Rick Gary (@Rickandgary) March 5, 2017
@charlesmurray Being pretty generous to assume he knows or cares to know your work. He will just assume you're racist and that's good enough
— Caleb Sisco (@CalebSisco) March 5, 2017
The National Review’s David French found the tweet pretty “amazing” too — as in, amazing someone actually published it on purpose.
Because that's totally comparable to what's happening on campus today. https://t.co/MZXUzZGECG
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 4, 2017
@DavidAFrench @redsteeze Ridiculous and farcical to even compare the two.
— Edwina Mc Manus (@slickchick81) March 5, 2017
@DavidAFrench He already posted his one sane tweet of the week.
— Kelsey Shockey (@KelseyShockey) March 5, 2017
