"...In a move that surprised no one who has paid attention to college campuses for the past few years, last night’s speech by “Catholic nationalist” Faith Goldy at Wilfrid Laurier University was shut down before it even started.
Laurier Students for Open Inquiry, led by the academic-freedom martyr Lindsay Shepherd, had invited Goldy precisely so her critics could engage her in debate on her scheduled topic: “Ethnocide: Multiculturalism and European Canadian Identity.”
Because debate is so, like, fascist or something, some moron pulled a fire alarm instead, depriving the 175 people waiting in line for the event their right to hear Goldy and perhaps even challenge her.
(Shepherd said she had to turn away another hundred for capacity reasons.)
The fire alarm is the last refuge of the idiot Left, which exults in lawbreaking in defense of squelching views that diverge even slightly from its own.
It’s been deployed to shut down an anti-PC documentary screening at the University of California-Irvine, disrupt journalist Cathy Young’s critical talk on radical feminism at Canada’s Saint Paul University, and perhaps just add to the mayhem when a violent mob tried to shut down Ben Shapiro’s speech at California State University-Los Angeles..."
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