American academia in a nutshell. One school invites a murderer who killed a Philadelphia police officer to address a commencement ceremony and to the left it’s a great victory for freedom of speech. Another invites a well respected conservative columnist but he’s disinvited because of something he wrote in one of his columns.
What’s wrong with this picture? Murder is cool but a challenging idea is unacceptable?
Scripps College invites @georgewillf to speak, rescinds because of one of his columns. http://t.co/quh3hsAyjC
— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) October 7, 2014
@RameshPonnuru @georgewillf Just one? That will probably offend him.
— Jason Riley (@jasonrileywsj) October 7, 2014
@RameshPonnuru @georgewillf Damn George, did you kill a cop?
— @UWedge (@UWedge) October 7, 2014
That would probably get him more invitations.
https://twitter.com/cousineddie/status/519304677196722176
https://twitter.com/justkarl/status/519297527066427392
A prominent conservative political pundit was uninvited from speaking at Scripps College, in a program designed to promote conservative views on campus, because of his conservative views.
https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/519310703396941826
Crazy.
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