Steven Crowder Event Canceled at UPenn Due to Security Issues
“says the school would not let his team livestream the event, as previously agreed to, nor allow his own security the proper access for their normal safety checks”
This only happens to conservative speakers on campus. It’s not a coincidence, it’s political.
The College Fix reports:
Steven Crowder event at UPenn canceled due to ‘security hurdles’
Steven Crowder withdrew from a scheduled debate Friday at the University of Pennsylvania, alleging roadblocks put up by school officials.
The conservative commentator says the school would not let his team livestream the event, as previously agreed to, nor allow his own security the proper access for their normal safety checks.
“We’ve just heard from Penn Live Arts and have been informed that we would not be able to livestream due to ‘safety’ concerns,” Crowder’s staffers wrote in an email to his debate opponent, Professor Jonathan Zimmerman.
“However, the on site security team has also informed our personal security that we would not be able to undertake many of our routine safety measures which makes us seriously doubt their reasoning,” the team wrote in an email obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Zimmerman (pictured, right) criticized the administration in comments to the student newspaper.
“I don’t think that the people who run this University are evil people. I understand their concerns that, with a livestream, there would be some sort of flash mob,” he said. “But I think this is a bad decision.”
He said that livestreaming the event could keep it safer, by allowing people to watch it without coming in person.
“If it’s being livestreamed, there’s less incentive to go down to Annenberg [the auditorium],” he said. “I think it’s just as plausible that saying you can’t livestream would actually create precisely the sort of flash mob or chaos that they’re worried about.”
The history professor, who has been critical of the state of free speech on college campuses, said this incident does not reflect well on the university.
“I want it, and I’m trying to live it, but do we want it?” Zimmerman said. “I think one way to read this entire episode is that actually we don’t.”
Prior to the Tuesday cancelation, Crowder had pledged to go ahead with the event and bring his own team to livestream, as The College Fix reported yesterday.
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if he would have brought 20 guys with him for security it would be cancelled
b/c the leftists feel uncomfortable
destroy communism causes its destroying us
So the lefty censors at Penn won’t let Crowder come to speak on campus.
Well …
I suppose that’s somewhat less evil than murdering him once he gets there.
The administration got really nervous when they noticed that Crowder’s chief of security was Amy Wax.
So much for UPenn’s reputation for tolerance, academic honesty, and integrity.
Parents: seek a decent place to educate rather than indoctrinate your child.
Prospective students: forget this dump.
Current students: transfer NOW before it is too late.
Faculty: you are riding a dead horse. Bolt now.
Administrators: learn to code or weld. You suck.
No—Get rid of whomever made this decision.
Freedom of speech unless there are security hurdles.
It’s time to defund universities that do not respect and enforce the 1st amendment.