One can only wonder what the media spin would be if this were Biola or Liberty University. Here is a short noting by NEWSBUSTERS:
CBS This Morning stood out as the sole Big Three network morning newscast on Tuesday to cover a University of Missouri academic shouting down a reporter, briefly physically attacking him, and then calling people over to “get this reporter out of here…I need some muscle over here.” Norah O’Donnell spotlighted Melissa Click, “an assistant professor of mass media,” who along with “students, were telling the media — including a photography who confronted her — to back off.” ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today didn’t mention Click during their coverage of the racial controversy at Missouri.
GAY PATRIOT likewise comments on the babies in university:
People used to think I was being hyperbolic when I spoke of ‘the Fascist Left.’ I was not. The bullies at the University of Missouri have not only succeeded in removing the President and the Chancellor for being insufficiently radical, they have also blocked the press from speaking to the protesters. The reason for this should be fairly obvious; every time the public is exposed to the real hatred and radicalism that underlies the #BlackLivesMatter movement, they lose support. They cannot control their members, so they attempt to control access to them.
HOTAIR goes a bit further:
…I bet you could find a dozen Social Justice Warriors on the scene at yesterday’s protest to say that the photographer who wouldn’t leave is guilty of “hurtful speech.” Needless to say, if he or any other student is disciplined for dissent from the prevailing PC wisdom at a public university, especially dissent in defense of their First Amendment rights, they should sue this garbage, fascist school for millions. FIRE has been helping college students sue the left-wing totalitarians who run their campuses for ages. If you know a student at MU, make sure they’re aware.
Jonathan Chait, a man of the left himself but one who’s fretted before about political correctness run wild, responds to today’s liberal spin that the Mizzou students and faculty who physically removed that reporter from a protest were just kids being kids so whaddaya gonna do, right?
But to imagine p.c. as simply a thing college kids do relieves us of taking it seriously as a coherent set of beliefs, which it very much is. Political correctness is a system of thought that denies the legitimacy of political pluralism on issues of race and gender. It manifests itself most prominently in campus settings not because it’s a passing phase, like acne, but because the academy is one of the few bastions of American life where the p.c. left can muster the strength to impose its political hegemony upon others. The phenomenon also exists in other nonacademic left-wing communities, many of them virtual ones centered on social media, and its defenders include professional left-wing intellectuals.
The upsurge of political correctness is not just greasy-kid stuff, and it’s not just a bunch of weird, unfortunate events that somehow keep happening over and over. It’s the expression of a political culture with consistent norms, and philosophical premises that happen to be incompatible with liberalism. The reason every Marxist government in the history of the world turned massively repressive is not because they all had the misfortune of being hijacked by murderous thugs. It’s that the ideology itself prioritizes class justice over individual rights and makes no allowance for legitimate disagreement…
That these activists have been able to prevail, even in the face of frequently harsh national publicity highlighting the blunt illiberalism of their methods, confirms that these incidents reflect something deeper than a series of one-off episodes. They are carrying out the ideals of a movement that regards the delegitimization of dissent as a first-order goal.
Precisely. The reason these incidents happen on campuses isn’t because “college shenanigans!” or whatever, it’s because this is where they have the numbers. When that scumbag professor calls for “muscle” to remove a reporter from the public square, she can get it. They’re accountable to no one, partly because of tenure and partly because they can and will mau-mau any state official as racist/sexist etc who comes down on them. What you’re seeing here, per Chait’s apt analogy, is progressivism unchecked. How do you like it? How will you like it when they have the numbers to pass a “hate speech” law and they’ve got five miserable lockstep left-wing hacks on the Supreme Court to uphold it?….
