Students attempt to shut down free speech event at SUNY campus: Media Miss

SHANNON LONGWORTH: THIS VIDEO IS FROM SUNY ALBANY, WHERE STUDENTS PROTESTED A TURNING POINT USA SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

YOU CAN SEE STUDENTS ENTERING THE ROOM, CHANTING AND DANCING…AT ONE POINT, CRUMPLING A BIBLE.

SOME OF THE CHANTS WERE DIRECTED AT THE CONSERVATIVE GUEST SPEAKER, IAN HAWORTH, WHO WAS THERE TO DISCUSS THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

HAWORTH TWEETED WEDNESDAY:

“THE MOST SOCIALIST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IS A BUNCH OF DERANGED STUDENTS SCREAMING ‘NO COPS, NO KKK, NO @TPUSA’ AT A JEWISH IMMIGRANT WHILE ALSO HAPPILY SHOVELING FREE PIZZA DOWN THEIR THROATS PAID FOR BY…@TPUSA!”

EVENTUALLY, THE UNIVERSITY MOVED THE EVENT TO ANOTHER ROOM, WHILE THE DEMONSTRATION CONTINUED OUTSIDE.

THE CAMPUS CHAPTER OF THE YOUNG DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA RELEASED A STATEMENT THE NEXT DAY, SAYING IT DID NOT ORGANIZE THE PROTEST AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO IT, BUT IT STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE STUDENTS WHO DEMONSTRATED AGAINST HAWORTH.

“WHILE ALBANY YDSA IS IN SUPPORT OF FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, WE BELIEVE THIS INDIVIDUAL’S HATEFUL RHETORIC IS A CLEAR DANGER AND SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO THE MANY QUEER STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY.”

THE GROUP SAID THE ACTION REMAINED PEACEFUL, BUT THAT TWO STUDENTS WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND OBSTRUCTING GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION IN THE SECOND DEGREE.

THIS IS THE LATEST INSTANCE IN A TREND OF CLASHES OVER FREE SPEECH AT UNIVERSITIES…THIS WEEK, CORNELL REJECTED A RESOLUTION FROM ITS STUDENT ASSEMBLY THAT WOULD HAVE REQUIRED TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR COURSE CONTENT. LAST MONTH, STANFORD LAW STUDENTS INTERRUPTED A CONSERVATIVE FEDERAL JUDGE WHO’D VISITED.

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