Coalition of student groups (socialist, black, women, minority, immigrant, Jewish) demanding “known fascist” @CHSommers be no-platformed tomorrow at Lewis & Clark Law School ahead of her PSU talk.pic.twitter.com/CIf3YXDkV4
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Protesters start singing song against @CHSommers: “No platform for fascists”pic.twitter.com/nr3d62DiKe – at Lewis & Clark Law School
Protesters try to disrupt @CHSommers lecture. They demand that she take questions now.pic.twitter.com/CadwW1Nkcg
Protesters start singing again about no-platforming fascists. @CHSommers looks at audience in dismay.pic.twitter.com/STw1DhYFqi – at Lewis & Clark Law School
Activists brought in speaker to try and drown out @CHSommers with music.pic.twitter.com/27EVTFOpdg – at Lewis & Clark Law School
In addition to protesters in the room, a crowd of demonstrators chanted outside at various points.pic.twitter.com/c1M9h3gmGk – at Lewis & Clark Law School
Emotional exchange when protester accuses @CHSommers of approving sexual assault. “That’s what you just said!”pic.twitter.com/KlQxcuSpKm – at Lewis & Clark Law School
Some signs from yesterday’s “anti-fascist” protest and shut-down attempt of @CHSommers at Lewis & Clark Law School:pic.twitter.com/5V2hBby04Q
Update to @CHSommers Lewis & Clark incident. NLG chapter released a new statement in support of disrupters, cites SPLC & says they are opposed to platforming “white supremacists, male supremacists”pic.twitter.com/rbsYPGNqfw
And here is @CHSommers brilliant & funny @WSJ column: “When I arrived at Lewis & Clark Law School to give a talk, a security officer asked if I had a gun...I didn’t, but my friend Andy Ngo, a Portland State grad student, was armed with an iPhone.”https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gender-gage-rap-is-real-1521068265 …
Both the mindset and rhetoric of "which side are you on?" is ultimately polarizing. It is the most oppressive of ideas, for it cuts out anything outside a binary of us vs. them. Evil moves through over-simplification.
Totally agree. It’s become impossible to have nuanced discussions about complex subjects now- mouths are open but ears and minds are closed. Why have the closed minded disrupters been given so much power?
They have taken it, because they see it as their right.
Yet all of their aggrieved energy serves to distract from any real discussion of problems and solutions. The polarization grows, the problems fester, solutions are stillborn.
am I the only one who finds chanting creepy and vaguely reminiscing of fascist propaganda?
It's like the Two Minutes' Hate from 1984!
Exactly like my pinned tweet
Eh. Not a huge fan of the modern Right either, if we're being honest with one another.
Wow I live in west hills too well hi neighbor
I actually moved. Perhaps I should update that...
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