So what was so offensive about Charles Murrays speech? Last month the conservative scholar tried to give a talk at Middlebury College in Vermont. Over 400 students and faculty members shouted him down. They chanted Racist sexist anti-gay Charles Murray go away!"
Later after Murray and faculty member Alison Stanger had livestreamed the debate from somewhere else on campus they were attacked as they went to their car. Masked protesters twisted the moderators neck giving her a concussion and sending her to the hospital. The irony? Political scientist Alison Stanger does not even share Murrays views. She just wanted an open discussion.
So what was so controversial about his speech? It couldnt have been his recent book Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010. That made only a few people mad. The New York Times included it on its list of 100 Notable Books of 2012. Not that book then.
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So what was so offensive about Charles Murrays speech? Last month the conservative scholar tried to give a talk at Middlebury College in Vermont. Over 400 students and faculty members shouted him down. They chanted Racist sexist anti-gay Charles Murray go away!"
Later after Murray and faculty member Alison Stanger had livestreamed the debate from somewhere else on campus they were attacked as they went to their car. Masked protesters twisted the moderators neck giving her a concussion and sending her to the hospital. The irony? Political scientist Alison Stanger does not even share Murrays views. She just wanted an open discussion.
So what was so controversial about his speech? It couldnt have been his recent book Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010. That made only a few people mad. The New York Times included it on its list of 100 Notable Books of 2012. Not that book then.
Read the rest of the article at The Stream