SLATE: If You Want a Vision of the Future, Imagine a Boot Stamping on Charles Murray's Face—Forever
03/13/2017
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From Slate:
The Kids Are Right

There’s nothing outrageous about stamping out bigoted speech.

By Osita Nwanevu

Charles Murray, an author and political scientist, was scheduled to give a lecture at Middlebury College earlier this month. Murray is best known for co-authoring The Bell Curve, a book published in 1994 in which he argued that blacks are less intelligent than white people. On March 2, a mix of students and “outside agitators” shut down Murray’s talk and forced him off campus. A professor was injured and hospitalized, and Murray’s car was mobbed.. …

This is, to borrow a phrase,a time for choosing. In the Trump era, should we side with those who insist that the bigoted must traipse unhindered through our halls of learning? Or should we dare to disagree?

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