Free speech banned: More Orwellian tactics at DePaul University

First DePaul university silenced conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos, whose speech caused such an uproar among Black Lives Matter protesters, it had to be shut down. Now, in an effort to ensure the same thing doesn’t happen again, administration has canceled an upcoming speech by another conservative speaker, Ben Shapiro.

Shapiro was invited to the DePaul campus by its Young Americans for Freedom chapter only to be stonewalled by Vice President Bob Janis who announced, “Given the experiences and security concerns that some other schools have had with Ben Shapiro speaking on their campuses, DePaul cannot agree to allow him to speak on our campus at this time.”

So, because Shapiro’s previous speeches were taken over by protesters who purposely blocked exits and prevented people from attending the event, Janis is kowtowing and silencing the First Amendment rights of its students and guest speakers.

“They can’t keep their own students from assaulting people, so therefore they can’t bring in speakers who disagree with the students,” Shapiro said in response on The Kelly File.

“If this is how things are going to be from now on, free speech doesn’t exist because it really creates an incentive for people to get violent at protests and get violent when speakers come to make sure the people they disagree with don’t get to show up on campus anymore ,” he added.

Shapiro is right when he says this is DePaul submitting itself to “rioter’s veto.” And remember, this isn’t happening with liberal speakers, only conservatives. In fact, on Fox News, Shapiro noted that a convicted terrorist has spoken at DePaul without protest.

It’s amazing to see what’s happening at so-called places of higher learning. American universities can no longer be described as bastions of free ideas; not when the inmate snowflakes are running the asylum. They aren’t looking for a marketplace of ideas, they’re looking for only one idea: theirs.

H/T Instapundit