Raucous protesters choke entrance at George Will’s Miami University speech

Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2014-10-24 18:06

Article here. Excerpt:

'Hoisting signs such as “Quit giving misogyny a voice Miami” and “Where is my special privilege Mr. Will?” roughly 75 students choked the business school gates where conservative columnist George Will gave a guest lecture Wednesday night at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

As guests headed into the campus area to hear the talk, part of the Anderson Distinguished Lecture Series, protesters handed out rape and sexual assault information sheets to passersbys while repeatedly chanting slogans such as “No means no, whatever we wear, wherever we go, yes means yes” and “nothing less than yes.”

The protest was right in front of the business school gates, so anyone entering through the front gates to attend the event had to walk through the crowd and endure a barrage of chants and information sheets. 

Other signs touted taglines like “Rape is a violent crime, not a partisan opinion” and “survivors of rape deserve love and honor.”

Yet the protest apparently did not deter an enormously varied crowd from packing the 400-seat venue where Will, a Pulitzer-prize winner with The Washington Post, spoke. Students, faculty and Oxford community members were there to listen about the night’s topic, the political argument today.'

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Blocking, threatening, attacking, etc., attendees or speakers and/or being so loud as to force the event to shut down or relocate, however, is not. Fortunately in this case, neither happened, so I think the CF's use of "choke" in the headline is a bit dramatic. If a minor delay in entering a venue is caused by ppl doing the First Amendment thing, it's hardly a cause for a cry of "foul!". After all, if these ppl are denied their right to protest and offer their opinions to others, then MRAs can likewise be so treated, yes? And we don't like it when that happens to us.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-10-25 20:01