By Eugene Gant
11/10/2022
Reading that Ann Coulter stopped her speech at her alma mater, Cornell University, when communist hecklers interrupted her with clown music, fart noises, and infantile yelling, made me wonder whether Cornell University, like Penn State, had fallen victim to the Indian CEO virus.
Every one of these students should be expelled; non-students should be prosecuted. Won’t happen, because Admininistrators are complicit cf Penn State/ McInnes https://t.co/DbohHkTss1
— VDARE (@vdare) November 10, 2022
It hasn’t. But like the presidents of six of the eight Ivy League schools, Cornell’s President is Jewish, a person called Martha Pollack.
This is the second time within a month that college authorities have permitted campus communists to shut down a speech with zero consequences. In late October, the Indian who runs Penn State did nothing after Red goons attacked Blaze TV’s Alex Stein. Police shut down the event at which he and Gavin McInnes were to speak.
In August, Pollack told new students they would “encounter a lot of new ideas here,” some of which “you might really hate.”
Indeed.
What I want you to do — and it isn’t always going to be easy — is listen to as many of them as you can. Don’t avoid people whose viewpoints you think are wrong. Don’t try to shout them down. Hear them out. Ask them questions. Put in the effort to understand their point of view.
[2022 New Student Convocation Address, President.Cornell.edu, August 21, 2022]
A few years ago, in its statement of “core values,” this what Cornell’s president published:
We are a community whose very purpose is the pursuit of knowledge. We value free and open inquiry and expression — tenets that underlie academic freedom — even of ideas some may consider wrong or offensive. Inherent in this commitment is the corollary freedom to engage in reasoned opposition to messages to which one objects.
[Cornell University Core Values, President.Cornell.Edu]
Until Pollack expels and publicly denounces the students who disrupted Coulter, we can assume that clown music, fart noises, and infantile yelling are now “reasoned opposition” to speakers that Cornell’s communists don’t like.
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