At American colleges today,
are conservative ideas
allowed?
Shut it down!
Shut it down!
These students at Claremont College are angry because
Heather Mac Donald was invited to speak.
Mac Donald is a Manhattan Institute scholar who
wrote the book “The War on Cops”.
She argues that Americans are less safe
because police,
for fear of being called racist,
back off.
Thank you for your listening.
At UCLA, she was allowed to give her
“Blue Lives matter” speech,
and many in the audience
applauded.
They did let you finish your speech.
And then they stormed the stage.
Black lives, they matter here!
Black lives, they matter here!
First they just shouted,
drowning out any possible questions.
Black lives, they matter here!
Black lives, they matter here!
It has a party atmosphere.
Some kids are smiling as they're
turning the camera around and taping each other.
Black lives, they matter here!
Now it's almost an expectation
that if you're a minority student on campus,
you're there to protest.
Eventually the protesters took over the stage.
From UCLA, Mac Donald went to Claremont College.
There, she was met with posters saying:
Shut Down Anti-Black Fascist Heather Mac Donald!
This is preposterous.
I have spent enormous amount of time in high crime,
minority neighborhoods talking to the
good people there who are desperate for more police,
who have a right to expect the same
freedom from fear
as people in safer neighborhoods take for granted.
My agenda is to try to give voice to these people.
To say that I'm Anti-Black is ridiculous.
Nevertheless, activists formed a blockade
in front of the lecture hall.
Black lives matter!
They prevented anybody that had planned to hear me
from entering.
Joining us tonight is Heather Mac Donald,
Strangely, Mac Donald’s student host
proceeded as if the hall were full of students.
But it's just the two of you in the room.
It was quite odd.
Mac Donald’s speech to the empty room
was recorded for the internet, but no students
could ask questions
because they couldn’t get past this protest.
Shut it down, shut it down, shut it down!
There's a school newspaper reporter
going around with a camera
trying to get opinions
from people
and
instead of expressing their viewpoint,
they put their hand in front of
his camera.
I’m with the Claremont Independent,
and I’m wondering if you might be willing to just
tell me anything at all.
I’m with the.. ok, alright.
The people exercising what is clearly
historically fascist behavior, which is in the case of
the Berkeley riots,
vandalizing, breaking glass, setting fires,
beating people up,
that they go under the moniker anti-fascist.
Yeah, they call you a fascist.
They called me a fascist.
I have not tried to silence anybody.
The atmosphere is one of academic freedom.
Ronald Reagan once called Claremont a place that
fostered discussion and debate.
Learn to deal with controversy in both politics
and economics.
No more, says Mac Donald in this City Journal article
titled From Culture to Cupcakes.
College once promoted an understanding
of Western culture.
Today, there is an enormous bureaucratic infrastructure
dedicated to teaching students that they're victims.
She calls that the Diversity Bureaucracy.
What do you mean Diversity Bureaucracy?
UCLA has a Vice Chancellor
for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
That Vice Chancellor makes
$445,000 dollars a year.
The Berkeley Division of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
has a $20 million dollar budget.
Our biases disproportionately benefit certain groups
and harm others.
There's a co-dependency between
the exploding diversity bureaucracy
and these narcissistic, delusional students
who act out little psycho dramas of oppression
before an appreciative
audience of diversity bureaucrats.
Psycho dramas of oppression?
Absolutely, these students...
They think they're oppressed.
They think they're oppressed.
Do we believe in objective reality?
Is anybody allowed to say that they are not oppressed?
Shut it down!
Shut it down!
Shut it down!
They sincerely, I think, believe
this is a racist society,
there's the history of racism in America,
that it's stacked against them by us white people.
But I take issue
with the unthinking charge that we remain racist today.
But we white people run Western society.
We have a head start.
We have the most money.
It's not fair.
Develop some sense of perspective.
You have at your fingertips,
every book that has ever been written,
you're surrounded by a beautiful campus.
These students,
who are among the most privileged human beings
in human history,
to be at an American college with educational resources
available to them, that the Renaissance Humanists
would have killed for,
actually think of themselves as victims.
And that, to me, is a very sad state of delusion.
