Charles Murray: Protests Are a ‘Repudiation of What the University is All About’
Libertarian sociologist Charles Murray discussed protests against his speeches on college campuses.
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Murray wrote “The Bell Curve,” and often speaks about the “growing class divide” that has led to the rise of President Trump.
Murray said he was stunned that many of those protesting his speech at Middlebury College in New England proudly said they never actually read his work.
“Faculty members bragged about not reading my stuff,” he said. “But they still knew I was a bad guy.”…
He said that the Middlebury incident is not necessarily an epidemic but that it is “toxic” to the belief that universities are spaces for intellectualism.
“What went on inside that lecture hall was a repudiation of what the university is all about,” Murray said.
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Michael Gryboski reports at the Christian Post:
Charles Murray Has Right to Speak on Campus, Says Group Cited by Violent Protesters
The Southern Poverty Law Center has stated that a scholar they labeled “extremist” for purportedly advancing “racist pseudoscience” had a right to speak at a public college where he was violently protested against.
In March, controversial American Enterprise Institute researcher and author Charles Murray was intensely protested at Middlebury College by students who did not want him to speak on campus. The students cited SPLC as their source when claiming Murray was too extreme to be allowed to speak.
In written testimony submitted to the United States Senate Committee of the Judiciary on Tuesday, SPLC President Richard Cohen explained that while his organization labels Murray an “extremist” who advances racist ideology, he has a right to speak on a college campus.
“No matter how repugnant one may find a speaker’s views, as long as the college has a policy of allowing student groups to invite people from outside their campus to speak, they cannot pick and choose based on the views the speaker holds,” stated Cohen.
Charles Murray on Twitter
1/ @nytimes @wapo Ask SPLC for page reference for anything I’ve ever written that remotely says I’m a white nationalist.
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2/ @nytimes @wapo If SPLC can’t do it, stop giving credence to an utterly false, libelous allegation.