Activists at Stanford Accuse Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers of Being a ‘Climate Criminal’

Activists at Stanford Accuse Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers of Being a ‘Climate Criminal’

The left doesn’t know how to offer an intelligent rebuttal to an argument. All they can do is disrupt and shut down the speech of others.

The College Fix reports:

‘Climate criminal:’ Outside activists disrupt Stanford event with former Treasury secretary

Seven activists disrupted a debate about taxes held at Stanford University yesterday, accusing one speaker of being a “climate criminal.”

Members of “climate defiance,” none of whom were students, took the stage on Tuesday to confront Larry Summers. The event is part of a series called “Democracy and Disagreement,” where two speakers debate a topic – in this case, a tax on wealth.

Summers, a former Treasury Secretary and chief economist of the World Bank, argued against a wealth tax, according to the Stanford Daily. In addition to serving as President Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary, Summers also served as an economic adviser to President Barack Obama.

The activists “climbed onto the stage and unveiled banners reading ‘Larry Summers your time is up,’ ‘toxic mess’ and ‘tax the rich,’” according to the student newspaper.

“Members of the protest group also threw fake money into the crowd reading ‘toxic mess Larry,’ ‘Larry Summers bankrolls climate destruction,’ and ‘you deserve this money, Larry made sure it went to billionaires,’” the student newspaper reported.

The interruption had little effect on winning over supporters to the cause.

The activists were booed by those in the crowd. “Let him speak,” attendees chanted, according to video posted on social media.

The student newspaper also interviewed several attendees, all of whom disagreed with the protest.

“I liked their message that the wealthy should be taxed more to help the needy more, but I think the way they went about it was slightly damaging to their message,” one student told the newspaper.

“I was just appreciative that there were people who, like myself, wanted the discussion to go on regardless of disagreements, because the point of the class is to debate on issues – it’s not to have everyone agree,” another student said.

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