There’s a difference between pushing back and burning the place to the ground. Now it is funny how the Right complained for so long about loudmouth obnoxious Left running their mouth, but now they have one of their own to stand behind and the Left can’t handle it (neither can the Right) – PB/TK
Milo’s free speech makes big bucks: Students have the right to push back when universities promote his worldview – DAVID MASCIOTRA
The New York Times recently profiled Hillsdale College in Michigan as an intellectual and cultural home for conservatives in academia. Statues of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher decorate the campus, while speakers from the National Review regale students with heroic tales of writing reactionary op-eds under the supervision of Jonah Goldberg.
Endless entertainment would result from an obnoxious left-wing agitator booking a speech at Hillsdale and describing in detail how he would like to defecate on Reagan’s tomb while wearing an American flag t-shirt. The speaker could perform his lecture without cost to the conservative college, because the publication for which he writes about his hatred for evangelical Christians and stay-at-home mothers would cover all expenses, as long as they could market their editorial vision and brand name as part of the event.
If the student body and faculty of Hillsdale organized a protest to prevent their academic community from providing a promotional venue for the speaker and his “alt-left” platform, would they open themselves up to accusations of censorship and hostility toward free speech?
Whenever Milo Yiannopoulos, or some other right-wing shock jock, faces opposition to his juvenile act of misogyny as entertainment, cynical conservatives and “serious” liberals betray a fundamental incomprehension of free speech. Americans enjoy the liberty of free expression, and protection from governmental prosecution should they make remarks that violate social norms or communal standards. They do not have a right to monetize their penchant for imbecility with university-sponsored forums.
Continue to salon.com article: http://www.salon.com/2017/02/11/milos-free-speech-makes-big-bucks-students-have-the-right-to-push-back-when-universities-buy-what-hes-selling/
