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This is not a grand battle against institutionalised injustice. This is an addiction to indignation.

Below is a short film by Rob Montz on the vanities, hysteria and clown-shoe politics of campus protest culture:



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Documentary blames Brown for hostility to speech on campus

While many attribute the origin of the current campus climate to last fall’s student uprising at Mizzou, Montz shows that the trouble actually began to appear long before at Brown, where a 2013 lecture sent the school down a path of partisan divide.

Indeed, when Montz’s alma mater invited then-NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly to speak on campus, student protesters repeatedly interrupted his lecture, eventually leaving Kelly no choice but to leave—a victory for campus leftists that would set a precedent for the years ahead.

When Wendy McElroy, for instance, was invited to campus a couple years later to deliver a lecture that challenged the notion that America has a “rape culture,” students called it “mind violence” and pleaded with administrators to cancel the event.

McElroy, notably, is a rape survivor herself and called America’s obsession with claiming the title of “rape culture” “an insult to women who live in one.”

“The main thing they want is conformity—just fall into line,” she tells Montz in the film. “Some things cannot be said. Some ideas cannot be spoken.”

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Documentary blames Brown for hostility to speech on campus