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.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/838099996461436930
(Look’s like it was memory-holed right before this post was published, so here’s a screen shot.)
Are you really equating Charles Murray and Hitler?
— Sophophile (@sophophile1) March 4, 2017
That's exactly what he's doing. But Matty is cool like that.
— Mark Culham ? (@mdculham) March 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/838111052088881152
This is an unusually obtuse series of responses, considering it’s coming from one of the trained “explainers” at Vox.
https://twitter.com/Spiritof1620/status/838112832205930496
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/838113150666932224
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
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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
https://twitter.com/Rickandgary/status/838194278606200832
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
https://twitter.com/slickchick81/status/838198526471450626
https://twitter.com/KelseyShockey/status/838199139880091648
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