Did Middlebury College Punish Their Violent Student Protesters Enough?
The guy whom the students were protesting sure doesn’t think so.
For some background, controversial conservative speaker Charles Murray came to the small Vermont liberal arts college (that’s possibly the most left-leaning 5-word phrase in existence, so Murray must’ve known what he was getting himself into) back in March, and was promptly given the disruptive student protest experience we’ve all grown so accustomed to. Here’s a (very long) video of the ordeal; you can skip around in it to get the gist.
It wasn’t all whining, screaming, and chanting, though; there was hair-pulling too!
From TIME:
Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, was shouted down when he attempted to deliver his speech on March 2 and then physically confronted as he left the building with professor Allison Stanger, whose hair was pulled by demonstrators. Protesters also surrounded their car as they left the parking lot.
Murray has faced criticism for a 1994 book that linked intelligence with race.
“Forty-one students received sanctions from the College administration for participating in the first stage of the disruptive protest in Wilson Hall,” Middlebury said in a statement. “The remaining 26 students, who faced more serious consequences for actions in the hall and outside the building, were sanctioned by the College’s Community Judicial Board.”
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The Middlebury Police Department said it does not expect to file any criminal charges in the incident “due to insufficient evidence against any specific individual” in the physical confrontation that injured Stanger.
I will say this: as awful and cringeworthy as this video is, it’s not as bad as it seems. As someone who frequents Vermont, I actually toured Middlebury College back in high school to see if I’d like to apply there for college. The reason I didn’t go, which I can almost guarantee also played a part in these protests? There is absolutely nothing going on both on that campus and within a 50-mile radius. It’s an absolute Snoozefest. Pair that with the fact that they disallowed fraternities back around 1990 and as a student you start thinking, “Maybe getting drunk and showing up to protest some random dude will be fun.” And I can almost certainly say that this was in fact the most fun event that’s happened in that entire third of the state of Vermont in decades. They’ll talk about it for years to come while they attend their gender studies classes and write their sociology papers, and it will be referred to as their rager Valhalla.
Do you think Middlebury did enough disciplining here?.
[via TIME]
Image via YouTube
Is intelligence based partly on race? I cant say. But if someone told me Asians are smarter than white people, I wouldnt be offended or suprised. Might be a little offended if I were the 3rd or 4th place race, but what do they know anyway?
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I’m not saying that race is linked to intelligence, but there’s a damn bit more intelligent asians than there are blacks. Couldn’t tell you why though.
9 years ago at 1:23 pmOr whites for that matter.
9 years ago at 1:24 pmReview the school systems of different countries. Ours is a disaster. Better public schools, higher intelligence.
9 years ago at 3:10 pmThe “intelligence difference” between races is WAY more determined by cultural and lifestyle differences than it is by actual IQ
9 years ago at 1:35 pmAre people who run marathons smarter than people who run the 50-yard dash?
9 years ago at 2:08 pmNot gonna put that in on Facebook?
9 years ago at 3:57 pmNot so much about intelligence of one race vs another so much as it is a race’s or groups desire to normalize and embrace high level thinking. Until a collective group decides to prop up others and strive for success as a collective they will only do the others harm.
9 years ago at 2:13 pmNo, Middlebury did not punish them enough. The left is getting violent because the logic that they accepted is being proven to be ill-founded. The link between intelligence and race has been well-documented for many years. Are there exceptions? Of course there are. But the bottom line is different people are genetically different in different ways.
9 years ago at 4:27 pmThe left are the kind of people to tell you that there is no intellectual difference between Vladimir Putin, the child of Russian peasants, and some *insert non-descriptive racial profile from non-descript place here* when one literally stole billions of dollars and the other can’t find his way out of *nondescript place.*
9 years ago at 4:29 pmMiddlebury isn’t a complete snooze fest. lil uzi vert just had a concert in the hockey rink. So no this was not the must fun event there ever
9 years ago at 4:54 pmPlease read Murray’s book before you go quoting TIME and calling him, “controversial.” The man is pretty libertarian, i.e. thinks gays should be allowed to marry and a few other socially liberal positions, and his statement was merely an extension of what Daniel Patrick Moynihan said in the 60s, which is that black culture and family life is deeply affected by social welfare programs. I know this is a fraternity satire site but this being a place that also represents a group of people who are constantly misquoted, slandered, and misrepresented, I think we should do more due diligence and give others the treatment we would want ourselves.
9 years ago at 5:34 pmNever mind the man’s views, the method for disproving and undermining them is through reasoned discourse, not violence and intimidation.
9 years ago at 6:53 pm