Thread by @wokal_distance

Any leftist podcaster or celebrity can hold an event at any University in the United States with minimal security and be completely safe.

Conservative speakers can't hold events on campus without armed guards and a bullet proof vest.

Let's talk about why🧵

Universities have basically said there is no penalty for *trying* to do violence against conservatives; there's only a penalty if you actually manage to injure one of them.

You can try to do violence as much as you like, and there's no penalty until you actually hurt somone.

It's like telling a man with a loaded gun "shoot as many bullets at people as you like — we won't stop you until you actually hit someone."

This is the logic universities use when responding to the threats, protests, and riots the left uses to intimidate and shut down speakers.

The universities basically encourage the protestors to push boundaries as hard as they can, and they do nothing to discourage to escalation of tension or to prevent *attempts* at violence, disruptions, or rioting.

It's like if someone is trying to break into your house and the police say "we are not going to arrest him until he actually succeeds at getting into your house. We're just going to let him keep trying as much as he wants."

This is what is going on at Universities.

This has been escalating for a very long time. Here is a video of Jordan Peterson being mobbed by students at the University of McMaster:

Here is a clip where students pound on the windows of his talk at Queens University.

Here is a clip @BretWeinstein being cornered by students claiming to be "anti-racist" and demanding he resign or leave campus

Here is a video of @peterboghossian, @HeatherEHeying, @HPluckrose, and @JamesADamore trying to hold an event at Portland State University and having their sound equipment vandalized (the cords were cut) to prevent people from hearing them speak.

@peterboghossian @HeatherEHeying @HPluckrose @JamesADamore Again, none of this is new, and the colleges and Universities do abdolutely nothing to discourage it.

Here's a video of a University of Missuori professor asking for "some muscle" to stop a journalist from filming a protest

This has been going on since at least snce the 1967's when Angela Davis and Herbert Marcuse (two of the most influential neo-Marxist Critical Theorists) decided that words were not enough, and chose to occupy the registrar's office as a form of protest.

The Universities have failed to stand up to the radical leftists, in part because (as Jonh Searle pointed out in 1993) academics as a class are timid and lack the strength and courage to stand up to radical leftists.

The only way this ends is if the Universities put strong sanction on leftists for even *trying* to disrupt events.

No more encouraging the escalation of tensions, or tolerating the chaos and disorder of riots which leftists use to create cover for violent actions.

We're at the point with Universities where @benshapiro needed $600,000 of security to speak at UC Berkley, Steven Crowder (@scrowder) had to stop doing "change my mind" over security concerns, and Charlie Kirk was shot dead.

@benshapiro @scrowder Leftists use the threat of violence as an intimidation tactic to prevent conservatives from speaking on campus, and the University has a responsibility to say "you're not even allowed to *try* to threaten, intimidate, or use violence," and then fllow through with strong action.

@benshapiro @scrowder Charlie Kirk died on Campus.

It's time to tell the Left "no."

No, you don't get to censor.
No, you don't get to intimidate.
No, you don't get to disrupt.
No, you don't get to shut down. events
No, you don't get to threaten.
No, you don't get to decide what other people hear.

@benshapiro @scrowder Until Universities implement severe consequences for trying to shut down conservative speakers leftists will continue to use violence to intimidation.

Enough is enough, and the only thing that stops this is heavy consequences for those who engage in these tactics.

/fin