{"id":6463,"date":"2016-05-04T06:13:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T06:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/04\/jason-riley-conservative-black-disinvited-from-campus\/"},"modified":"2016-05-04T06:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T06:13:08","slug":"jason-riley-conservative-black-disinvited-from-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/05\/04\/jason-riley-conservative-black-disinvited-from-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Riley, Conservative Black, Disinvited from Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a long time now, leftist termites, aided and abetted by cowardly administrators and go-along-to-get-along faculty members, have been busy undermining the foundations of the West, including the universities.  Here<\/a> Jason Riley reports on an outrage that affected him personally.  Excerpts:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nor is it merely classroom instruction that leftists tend to control. Liberal faculty and college administrators also closely monitor outside speakers invited to campus. The message conveyed to students is that people who challenge liberal dogma are not very welcome. A 2010 report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found that only 40% of college freshman \u201cstrongly agreed that it is safe to hold unpopular positions on campus\u201d and that by senior year it\u2019s down to 30%.<\/span><\/p>\n

In more recent years the intimidation has not only continued but intensified. A lecture on crime prevention by former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly<\/a> was canceled after Brown University students booed him off the stage. Scripps College in California invited and then disinvited Washington Post columnist George Will for criticizing ever-expanding definitions of criminal assault.<\/span><\/p>\n

Planned commencement addresses by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice<\/a>(Rutgers University), human-rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Brandeis University) and International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde<\/a> (Smith College) were scuttled by faculty and student protesters, who cited Ms. Rice\u2019s role in the Iraq war, Ms. Ali\u2019s criticism of radical Islam and the IMF\u2019s rules for lending countries money.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet you don\u2019t have to be in such distinguished company to earn the ire of the campus left. Last month I was invited by a professor to speak at Virginia Tech in the fall. Last week, the same professor reluctantly rescinded the invitation, citing concerns from his department head and other faculty members that my writings on race in The Wall Street Journal would spark protests. Profiles in campus courage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We need some serious fumigation of the universities.  Who will you call for pest control?  Donald or Hillary?<\/span><\/p>\n

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For a long time now, leftist termites, aided and abetted by cowardly administrators and go-along-to-get-along faculty members, have been busy undermining the foundations of the West, including the universities.  Here Jason Riley reports on an outrage that affected him personally.  Excerpts: Nor is it merely classroom instruction that leftists tend to control. Liberal faculty and … Continue reading “Jason Riley, Conservative Black, Disinvited from Campus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,231,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-free-speech","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}