{"id":386039,"date":"2018-11-22T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fruit-of-college-indoctrination\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T01:26:07","slug":"the-fruit-of-college-indoctrination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fruit-of-college-indoctrination\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fruit of College Indoctrination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Much of today\u2019s incivility and contempt for personal liberty has its roots on college campuses, and most of the uncivil and contemptuous are people with college backgrounds.<\/span>\u00a0Let\u2019s look at a few highly publicized recent examples of incivility and attacks on free speech.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were accosted and harassed by a deranged left-wing mob as they were leaving a dinner at Georgetown University. Sen. McConnell was harassed by protesters at Reagan National Airport, as well as at several venues in Kentucky. Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife were harassed at a Washington, D.C., restaurant. Afterward, a group called Smash Racism DC wrote: \u201cNo \u2014 you can\u2019t eat in peace \u2014 your politics are an attack on all of us. You\u2019re (sic) votes are a death wish. Your votes are hate crimes.\u201d Other members of Congress \u2014 such as Andy Harris, Susan Collins and Rand Paul \u2014 have been physically attacked or harassed by leftists. Most recent is the case of Fox News political commentator Tucker Carlson. A leftist group showed up at his house at night, damaging his front door and chanting, \u201cTucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!\u201d \u201cRacist scumbag, leave town!\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Mayhem against people with different points of view is excused as just deserts for what is seen as hate speech. Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray discovered this when he was shouted down at Middlebury College and the professor escorting him was sent to the hospital with injuries. Students at the University of California, Berkeley shut down a controversial speaker and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Much of today\u2019s incivility and contempt for personal liberty has its roots on college campuses, and most of the uncivil and contemptuous are people with college backgrounds.\u00a0Let\u2019s look at a few highly publicized recent examples of incivility and attacks on free speech. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386039","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\/386039","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}