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Sunday, 15 October 2006
L.A. Times Columnist: Hooray for Violence!

L.A. Times Columnist:
Hooray for Violence! At Least They’re Doing Something!
Patterico

A controversial figure speaks at Columbia University, and students rush the stage, start a brawl, and shut down the speech.

And L.A. Times columnist Meghan Daum applauds:

THE EVENTS at Columbia University on Oct. 4, in which about a dozen students stormed a stage where the founder of an anti-illegal immigration group was speaking, didn’t exactly resemble those of April 1968. There were no arrests, no soundtrack by the Grateful Dead, no occupation of the president’s office. But considering that most young people are considered to be politically apathetic, you have to credit the Chicano Caucus and the International Socialist Organization for trying.

Is Daum unaware of the violence accompanying this thuggish display? No, she is fully aware of it:

Protesters later said Gilchrist was knocked backward and his glasses were broken. The student newspaper, the Columbia Spectator, reported that “one student was kicked in the head and bleeding.”

Yet she repeats her approval later in the column:

Still, I’ll give them an A (OK, maybe a B+) for trying.

It’s qualified approval; she seems to understand somewhere in there that the actions at Columbia were not ideal. Or does she? Well, she calls someone to talk about it, and the person she picks is a former terrorist: ...

[Read on. Hat tip: Michelle]

Posted by Bill Faith on October 15, 2006 at 12:40 AM in Immigration | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: NMS

The Los Angeles Time should be ashamed of itself. This editorial was a self-serving piece of liberal garbage. Going anywhere near defending the slugs at Columbia is disgraceful. To do it outright is un-American. And to top it off, she talks to a former terrorist about the state of youth "activism." What a joke!

Posted by: NMS | Oct 15, 2006 6:04:08 PM


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