{"id":14516,"date":"2009-03-12T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=14516"},"modified":"2009-03-12T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:34:57","slug":"hug-me-or-else-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=14516","title":{"rendered":"Hug Me, Or Else [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Thompson has up another one of his excellent posts, but before I get to that, I&#8217;d like to show a snippet from an article to which I was directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/03\/12\/unhinged-at-umass\/\">La Malkin<\/a>, regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycollegian.com\/news\/feder_s_hate_crime_speech_cut_short_by_protests-1.1604850\">the shouting down of a speech at the University of Massachusetts:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We intended for the event to be a forum for the expression of a conservative perspective on hate crime legislation, but also to provide a give and take with the audience, who we expected would disagree with his perspective,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Republican Club vice president Brad DeFlumeri.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153With that being said,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Deflumeri added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the leftists who did attend made it quite clear quite early that they intended for the event to be shut down, that they intended to infringe upon Don Feder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first amendment free speech rights.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How do these young intellectuals justify their anti-intellectual, unconstitutional and boorish behavior?  Why, on grounds of open-mindedness and <em>civility<\/em>, of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absolutely no room for hate speech on this campus,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said winter 2008 graduate Natalia Tylim. Her friend, senior Katie Perry, concurred, adding \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think campuses are places for open-mindedness, and this is the opposite of that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2009\/03\/defined-by-whining-.html\">So David&#8217;s piece on the apparatus that Yale University has put in place to encourage more of this sense of victimage and its attendant entitlement to outrage will certainly not shock you at all,<\/a> since it is <em>designed<\/em> to censor dissident opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/13\/us\/politics\/13waters.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Oh, look!  Entitlement!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Thompson has up another one of his excellent posts, but before I get to that, I&#8217;d like to show a snippet from an article to which I was directed by La Malkin, regarding the shouting down of a speech at the University of Massachusetts: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We intended for the event to be a forum for the expression of a conservative perspective on hate crime legislation, but also to provide a<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=14516\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}