Left at Columbia

This article is several months old, but still worth reading:

The protesters do not have an "equal right" to shout down a speaker, much less to assault him or his entourage. The right answer...the only answer acceptable in our country...is to let him speak and then set up your own event to tell everyone why he was wrong.

It is a remarkable thing about liberals (or, at Columbia, outright leftists) in free societies: They are far more intolerant than conservatives. The protesters hate people who oppose illegal immigration. They accept the use of intimidation and violence to keep such people from speaking, then blame the victim for having been controversial.

In browsing various political and pseudo-political sites on the web, you'll find a curious phenomena: nearly all the sites that practice ad hominem attacks and censorship of their reader comments lean far to the Left. That's because the difference between the radical American leftists which populate academia and a brutal tyrant like Josef Stalin is only about one degree of the political circle. They, of course, immediately cry foul and deny any such accusation.

So did Stalin.