Middlebury College Cancels Lecture on Totalitarianism by Conservative Philosopher
“some Middlebury students and professors wrote an open letter demanding the university rescind its sponsorship”
The threat of protests on campus caused the school to rescind its invitation to the speaker. They don’t need to learn about totalitarianism, because they’re already practicing it.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Middlebury College Cancels Conservative Philosopher’s Lecture on Totalitarianism
Middlebury College has canceled a campus speech by conservative Polish Catholic philosopher Ryszard Legutko in response to planned protests by liberal activists.
A professor of philosophy at Jagiellonian University and a member of the European Parliament, Legutko was scheduled to speak Wednesday at the Vermont college’s Alexander Hamilton Forum, delivering a lecture entitled “The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies.” A member of the anti-Communist Polish resistance during the Cold War, Legutko warns that western democracy is also susceptible to creep towards totalitarianism.
But in the days leading up to the speech, some Middlebury students and professors wrote an open letter demanding the university rescind its sponsorship. The liberal activists took issue with Legutko’s pointed critiques of multiculturalism, feminism, and homosexuality, calling them “homophobic, racist, xenophobic, [and] misogynistic.”
“Inquiry, equity, and agency cannot be fostered in the same space that accepts and even elevates homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic discourse,” they demand. “Bigotry of any kind should not be considered a form of inquiry.”
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Comments
Same old song. “I hear we disagree so you must be EVIL!”
Obviously the irony was lost on them.
Me thinks he doth protest too much