Middlebury College Cancels Conservative Philosopher’s Lecture on Totalitarianism
Washington Free Beacon,
by
Alex Griswold
Original Article
Posted By: NHChemist,
4/17/2019 5:34:45 PM
Middlebury College has canceled a campus speech by conservative Polish Catholic philosopher Ryszard Legutko in response to planned protests by liberal activists. A professor of philosophy at Jagiellonian University and a member of the European Parliament, Legutko was scheduled to speak Wednesday at the Vermont college´s Alexander Hamilton Forum, delivering a lecture entitled "The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies." A member of the anti-Communist Polish resistance during the Cold War, Legutko warns that western democracy is also susceptible to creep towards totalitarianism. (SNIP) The chairmen of both departments denied the activists requests, defending the event on grounds of
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/17/2019 5:36:31 PM (No. 37021)
Let the little brats protest. If they raise a fist, lock em up. Enough of this garbage.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
msjena 4/17/2019 5:40:08 PM (No. 37037)
I wonder how many minorities and poor people attend Middlebury?
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Protest in this case is code for: We are going to destroy everything in sight.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
john56 4/17/2019 5:59:31 PM (No. 37031)
If the prof had been lecturing that he was favoring totalitarianism of the left (or decrying the totalitarianism of that dastardly Trump), the College would have celebrated the lecture with open arms.
But since the lecture was going to come from a guy who has LIVED in a tolalotarian state (Soviet controlled Communist Poland), well, we can´t have that.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FunOne 4/17/2019 6:02:22 PM (No. 37026)
The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Or in this case, Middlebury College.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
qr4j 4/17/2019 6:11:01 PM (No. 37034)
In the name of diversity, Middlebury College does not accept a diversity of opinion. In the name of tolerance, Middlebury College does not tolerate civil discourse that is at odds with prevalent views. In the name of order and safety, Middlebury College allows the disorderly and abusive to have their way.
And YET . . . YET . . . Mr. Trump is criticized for trying to cut Federal funding to institutions that do not protect free speech. This is awful.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
tyshab 4/17/2019 6:15:58 PM (No. 37025)
poster nlchemist nailed it! Stop letting these thugs run things, surround the place with security and haul their butts to jail...NO BAIL for at least one week!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/17/2019 6:18:22 PM (No. 37035)
Stupid millenial twits. This is the type of coddled children who have had everything handed to them all of their lives and they like not working and living off the sweat of others. Jokes on them, totalitarianism will take everything they have and then some and they will be working for the rest of their lives to keep the royalty in power. They would be too young, dumb and closed-minded to understand the lecture anyway.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
49 Ford 4/17/2019 6:20:14 PM (No. 37030)
I wonder if the headline writer appreciated the irony.
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It seems to me that they seem to know what this man thinks before he even has a chance to speak. How do you accuse someone of being all these things when you have never allowed him to voice his opinions and question him? Oh that´s right these are leftists there is no speech except their speech, there are no ideas except theirs, or should I say unbridled emotional outbursts that they think are ideas. These people are a disgrace to our republic and should be expelled from any campus that they appear on. Their shutting down a free exchange of ideas and discussion should be the basis for ridding any campus of them. The university is a place of learning and you can never learn in the face of violence and intimidation. These thugs are not scholars or students they are simply thugs who have no place in an institution of learning, rather they belong in a totally different kind of institution.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MainelySane 4/17/2019 6:23:14 PM (No. 37036)
shame
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/17/2019 6:46:25 PM (No. 37033)
Middlebury has been a radical leftwing hotbed of SJW snowflakes since the 60’s. Heaven forbid the little entitled darlings should be exposed to some truth.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/17/2019 6:52:02 PM (No. 37027)
We’re being forced to “change our conversations, our traditions, our history, our way of doing things”. In 2009 Michelle Obama told us we would and she also said that “Barack” knew we would have to. The thugs all over college campuses are despicable, yes, but they are effective. We are watching the transformation of the country happen quickly and conservatives have no clue how or perhaps no inclination to stop it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jinx 4/17/2019 6:54:53 PM (No. 37018)
THis tells me that the liberal activists are deathly afraid of a conservative speaker. What are they afraid of? Someone might listen to the speaker and believe what he is saying? They are that afraid of losing the minds of their brainwashed subjects? That is not diversity; that is totalitarianism in full display. Shame on the college for permitting that to happen.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 4/17/2019 6:55:59 PM (No. 37020)
didn´t Ike call out the National Guard to protect SOME students at SOME place in Dixie in the 50´s??
DO THE SAME HERE..
how´d ya like my Omar impersonation..
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zarin 4/17/2019 7:32:42 PM (No. 37014)
What the H. is "Inquiry, equity, and agency"??? What can this next statement possibly mean? "Bigotry of any kind should not be considered a form of inquiry."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/17/2019 7:35:14 PM (No. 37022)
Poster # 6 nailed it. Maybe Pres. Trump can invite Legutko, Candice Owens, and some other conservative speakers to speak in a large stadium in some liberal city during one of his rallys.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 4/17/2019 7:53:12 PM (No. 37023)
They don´t want to hear a lecture about totalitarianism, they want to demonstrate actual totalitarianism.
A friend´s daughter went there, p*ssed away a quarter million on a mediocre education. Not my opinion, her father´s, almost all his money.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Wendybird 4/17/2019 8:24:05 PM (No. 37029)
Although I went to HS in Middlebury, I wasn’t smart, wealthy, poor or minority enough to be accepted there. For which I’m everlastingly grateful, because they have for many years, I suspect, infected the college environment with an incurable liberal virus. Still, a lovely campus, where you pay a premium to learn perhaps as much as your average 2 year community college, or alternatively, waiting on tables for two years.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/17/2019 9:28:11 PM (No. 37017)
Middlebury where the spoiled offspring of wealthy elitists go who can´t get into Brown. You want to see the new communists? Go to Middlebury. Only in the US and in VT especially, could you find the insufferable tools of despots who raised in a life of privilege, rebel against mommy and dad by becoming pious jackbooted thugs. Zero manners, zero intelligence, just obnoxious pukes looking for a mob so they can beat up someone and then run away. So thickheaded they injured a woman professor who was actually sort of on their side. But a mad dog doesn´t care who it bites.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
KTWO 4/17/2019 10:18:00 PM (No. 37024)
Sounds as if MC needs to fire some administrators and staff. Faculty doesn´t have much clout anymore.
Please denounce Intolerance. Don´t make me hurt you.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 4/18/2019 2:29:23 AM (No. 37019)
So Middlebury College surrenders to Generation Wuss because a group of SJWs were going to throw a public temper tantrum??
Nice freedom of speech ya got there, MC!! You lose!! Thanks for playing!!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jlw509 4/18/2019 5:57:36 PM (No. 37028)
Didn´t realize you have to have your backbone removed to be a college administrator.
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A lecture about Totalitarianism is cancelled by...Totalitarianism. I fear for our country.