{"id":1030,"date":"2016-08-17T08:05:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2016-08-17T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T14:05:39","slug":"free-speech-banned-more-orwellian-tactics-at-depaul-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/08\/free-speech-banned-more-orwellian-tactics-at-depaul-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Free speech banned: More Orwellian tactics at DePaul University"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 475px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/543288620\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 125.052632% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/543288620?et=R1s4N67ITO9lCAA7GrKalA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=eePI7aQgbsL9vlfyoKoIWiLnL9C7ZuUPgMypzRca9bg=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"475\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>First DePaul university silenced conservative firebrand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/07\/why-i-love-the-self-described-dangerous-faggot-and-you-should-support-him-too\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Milo Yiannopoulos<\/a>, whose speech caused such an uproar among Black Lives Matter protesters, it had to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2016\/05\/depaul-black-lives-matter-activists-waging-war-against-free-speech\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">shut down<\/a>. Now, in an effort to ensure the same thing doesn\u2019t happen again, administration has canceled an upcoming speech by another conservative speaker, Ben Shapiro.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cGiven 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, because Shapiro\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can\u2019t keep their own students from assaulting people, so therefore they can\u2019t bring in speakers who disagree with the students,\u201d Shapiro said in response on <em>The Kelly File<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this is how things are going to be from now on, free speech doesn\u2019t 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\u2019t get to show up on campus anymore ,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro is right when he says this is DePaul submitting itself to \u201crioter\u2019s veto.\u201d And remember, this isn\u2019t happening with liberal speakers, only conservatives. In fact, on Fox News, Shapiro noted that a convicted terrorist has spoken at DePaul without protest.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing to see what\u2019s 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\u2019t looking for a marketplace of ideas, they\u2019re looking for only one idea: theirs.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/240451\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instapundit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to keep the snowflakes from melting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Free speech banned: More Orwellian tactics at DePaul University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s hard to keep the 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