{"id":353275,"date":"2018-03-22T01:43:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T00:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/speech-by-controversial-commentator-at-canadian-university-interrupted-by-cultural-marxists\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T01:43:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T00:43:46","slug":"speech-by-controversial-commentator-at-canadian-university-interrupted-by-cultural-marxists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/speech-by-controversial-commentator-at-canadian-university-interrupted-by-cultural-marxists\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech by \u201cControversial Commentator\u201d at Canadian University Interrupted by Cultural Marxists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Right-wing commentator Faith Goldy was invited to speak at a free speech event at Wilfrid Laurier University on Tuesday evening when the event took an unexpected turn.<\/p>\n<p>Before the speech got underway someone pulled the fire alarm forcing the building to be evacuated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Live at Laurier \u2014 MARXISTS PULL ALARM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/svTpjVY51c\">https:\/\/t.co\/svTpjVY51c<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 \u2629 Faith J Goldy \u2629 ???????? (@FaithGoldy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaithGoldy\/status\/976242059660099584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Goldy was supposed to be the first guest speaker in The Unpopular Opinions Speaker Series launched by a student-run club called Laurier Society for Open Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Shepherd, the club\u2019s president, gained international attention last year when she was unjustly reprimanded by university officials for showing a public debate to her class about the use of gender neutral pronouns.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>News coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0OnHzIdAnT\">https:\/\/t.co\/0OnHzIdAnT<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Lindsay Shepherd (@NewWorldHominin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewWorldHominin\/status\/976481654574387201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hundreds of students gathered in protest and called for the event to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Goldy is known for her \u201ccontroversial views\u201d and was at the event to argue for closed borders. The group, however, wasn\u2019t able to find an academic that wanted to participate alongside Goldy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>The Laurier Society for Open Inquiry is pleased to announce the first speaker in our new Unpopular Opinions Speaker Series: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaithGoldy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FaithGoldy<\/a>. Tuesday March 20! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d4P9fMztcc\">pic.twitter.com\/d4P9fMztcc<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Lindsay Shepherd (@NewWorldHominin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewWorldHominin\/status\/974664205298290689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a statement, Wilfrid Laurier University says it does not limit the peaceful and lawful&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/speech-by-controversial-commentator-at-canadian-university-interrupted-by-cultural-marxists\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right-wing commentator Faith Goldy was invited to speak at a free speech event at Wilfrid Laurier University on Tuesday evening when the event took an unexpected turn. Before the speech got underway someone pulled the fire alarm forcing the building to be evacuated. Live at Laurier \u2014 MARXISTS PULL ALARM https:\/\/t.co\/svTpjVY51c \u2014 \u2629 Faith J [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}