A recent talk on free speech turned into a temper tantrum of political correctness — and the speakers were having none of it. Our friends at Campus Reform posted video, seen below, of one of the most outrageous hissy fits by progressives we’ve ever seen… as well as the retorts that put these special snowflakes in their place and began to win over the crowd.
(Trigger warning — there’s some naughty language.)
Students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst set a new high for hysteria Monday night at an event featuring Christina Hoff Sommers, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Steven Crowder.
The event was intended to be a forum and discussion about the use of political correctness on campus, but degenerated into a shouting match as protesters sought to drown out the speakers with cries of “hate speech” and, less imaginatively, “fuck you.”
One of the protesters took it upon herself to pass out literature expressing her concern for the “triggering” event, claiming the speakers “all demonstrate either that you don’t give a shit about people’s trauma and pain and think it’s funny to thrust people into states of panic and distress OR that you fundamentally do not understand what a trigger is, what it means to be triggered, and what a trigger warning is meant to prevent.”
When Campus Reform asked the activist to elaborate on the flyers, she refused to provide her name or comment because, as she put it, “Campus Reform causes death and death threats due to its extreme language.”
As the speakers walked onto the stage they were greeted with boos and middle fingers from many audience members, to which Steven Crowder graciously responded with a middle finger of his own.
The speakers were constantly interrupted throughout the event by shouts from the audience to “go home” or that “we don’t want you here,” with some of the most enthusiastic hollering coming from the very protester Campus Reform had attempted to speak with before the event.
When the protester attempts to interrupt Yiannopoulos at the beginning of the video, Hoff Sommers tells her to “calm down, young lady.” Paying no heed, the protester responds with an impassioned “Fuck you! Fuck you!”
Later on, the young lady begins loudly asserting that “hate speech is not welcome here” and demanding that the speakers “keep your hate speech off this campus,” all while insisting that she is the true embodiment of free speech.
“Stop talking to us like children!” she demands at another point.
“Then stop acting like a child,” Hoff Sommers responds coolly.
Crowder also evoked the rage of the protesters, in his case by discussing the Qur’an, which inspired a female student wearing Islamic garb to demand, “Don’t speak on my behalf!”
“I didn’t speak on your behalf … I talked about the Qur’an,” Crowder states incredulously. “I wasn’t there for the French Revolution, but I can talk about it.”
This story first appeared on Campus Reform.
Many of these morons are in college courtesy of government loans/grants. Our taxes are paying for these loonies. Congress should slash the funds available to these programs. Obviously the money is being wasted. These crybabies will never have a worthwhile job. They’ll never amount to anything. Quit paying for them.
U-Mass was a very good college. Between political hacks in control of administration and political correctness, U-Mass is another college graduating folks with skills that wouldn’t equal 7th grade in 1980.
Amimalhurst was the #1 party school in the 80’s and 90’s now it is an expensive warehouse for morons. I just received a resume from one of these “students” with spelling errors and poor grammar, needless to say it went into the circular file cabinet.
The spelling errors and poor grammar came from the poorly trained teachers and college teachers who were more interested in indoctrinating them. I first saw this when I returned to college from military service in 1966. The liberals had taken over the faculty in, seemingly, just three years. A non-student Communist organizer was openly working on campus. The Dean of the Liberal Arts Department was, also, the figurehead union representative who had no problem with promoting an anti-government agenda in class. Then by 1980, along came President Carter who created the Department of De-education and it had gone down hill ever since. All you good school teachers along with those of you who think you are good teachers can whine and cry at me, but my two grown daughters and my eight grown grandchildren had teachers who could use the proper verb tense in a sentence or get a correct answer to a math problem. Of course, they told me of some of their favorite teachers, too. The best method to determine the difference between a truly good teacher or one that thinks he/she is a good teacher is easy. The truly good teacher is not a Democrat. Truly good teachers think for themselves.
They have a lack of brain power and probably shouldn’t be on campus to start with. So go to school or get the hell out and make room for someone who is interested in an education
If these morons don’t like what is being said why are they there? They are free to leave and didn’t have to be there in the first place!
F*** Y** , what do you mean your taking Tater Tots off the School Lunch Menu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
Amherst and U Mass is considered to be one of the worst places to live or go to college unless you are liberal communist socialist with zero brain cells. This part of the state only attracts the weirdos of weird people and if you ever spent any time there you can realize why this country is so messed up and divided. The town and U Mass is the biggest embarrassment to the state of Massachusetts.
The people will stoop to extreme lows and lies with threats to anyone who does not do what they want or does not agree with them 100%. The video above proves what I just said and believe me it is the truth. Maybe 1% who live there might be sane but they stay to themselves if they know whats good for them.
That lard bucket that used profanity if I was betting I’d say she’s getting some kind of government assistance compliance of the tax payer!
That’s the trouble with all these progressive, politically correct wackos; they think they are the only ones entitled to perform hate speeches and anyone who disagrees with them should be censored. Well, they can’t have it both ways. And it sounds to me like it was the protestors who were screaming out “hate speech” with all their name calling and curse words. Free speech is just that- it is free for everyone, not just the politically correct liberals. And those protestors did not have to attend or to listen. If I don’t agree with someone, I just walk away, or turn off the listening device. I don’t infringe on his or her right to say it, I just practice my right to not listen. That’s what this country is all about. Everyone is equal and everyone has the right to say whatever they want whether it is right or not, or whether I agree with it or not. It is their constitutional right to say it, as it is my constitutional right to disagree with whatever they say. But these protestors should have been put in jail for disturbing the peace. There is such a thing a breaking the law when people go to the lengths these people did to stop free speech.
And turn away is what I do WHENEVER Barack Obama OR Hillary Clinton appear on my TV screen.
Fortunately, I have a remote control and whenever either of their faces grace the screen, I simply change the channel.
I WILL NOT allow either of them to ‘trigger’ me.
Regarding the vast waddle of womanhood who obviously cannot keep her piehole shut, she only demonstrates her immaturity and ignorance. Typical liberal/progressive.
Regarding the Muslim woman, I don’t consider Islam a ‘Religion’, I prefer to call it what it is, ‘A Cult’. She is free to go back to the shit hole from which she came. (and don’t let the door hit you in the a$$.) This country DOES NOT need you!!!
Your “Islam is not a religion” comment exposes your very deep ignorance. How is it less a religion than Judaism? If you want to rant about ‘religion’, use Scientology as your target. And I have the same reaction to the GOP candidates when they appear on my television – the power button is faster than the channel changer. Fortunately, we will be not be seeing them much longer after Trump is trounced by the woman you all seem to hate – Hillary.
Notice that we progressives don’t hate you – we pity your ignorance and dedication to your own self interest. Since you are so pitiful, it easier to feel sorry than to hate, which the Bible says is wrong anyway.
Really?? That bia-ch KILLED three American service men. You want her as President?? That’s Awesome???? After you bitch about how and what the person ahead of you said. It
My, my, my Oracle Guy.. You again? Amazing you so eloquently described the very thing conservatives feel about Hillary and her supporters; pure pity… the day you supported that murdering liar you sealed your fate just like hers is sealed. Hell is where all people who murder will go, yes even more so for innocent babies being murdered because God’s Holy Word states the fate of those who harm one hair on a child. Eternal separation from God and eternal damnation in Hell.
Progressive=Thief, trash, ect…..you get the picture.
Just plain insanity, These people need padded Hospitals,and medication not College
And a swift kick in the derrière! Offer bars of soap to the foul mouthed ones to wash out the filth from they big mouths!
What is that female drinking? Spiked sugar-water with bacon fat? It’s not helping her find her “common sense.”
How did farm animals get in there?
Farm animals are well behaved compared to these degenerates.
I like your comment, it was funny but true about those idiots.
OINK OINK!! to the one drinking the bacon grease!!!!
Lol. True
These hecklers were the face of “tolerance” they try to drown out or shut up any points of view that conflict with their own. The hecklers are probably all losers. It is likely they have never done anything productive. All they seek to do is further incivility. Many of these students will spend their college years partying, acquire not usable skill, and graduate with no job. They will then expect the govern to cancel their college loans while they sit home and watch TV all day.
As far as the Muslim student was concerned, if she doesn’t like America perhaps she should board a plane and go home. There is NO country where Islam is the dominant religion that is an advanced culture. Muslim culture is not an advanced culture.
When I was a college student I worked to pay my own way. That meant I didn’t have time to go to campus lectures and heckle the speaker. The students in this video came across as a bunch of babies who needed a hard spanking.
The article never describes the topic being presented which the audience considered ‘hate speech’ so this article is actually not of much value. It shows that UMass students are not afraid to stand up to people they consider to be bullies and that invited speakers are not afraid to talk down to students. What else is new?
I think the bullies are in the audience
Do you ever read all the article or not? Or do you not have any comprehension of what you read? The article plainly says and I quote. “The event was intended to be a forum and discussion about the use of political correctness on campus, but degenerated into a shouting match as protesters sought to drown out the speakers with cries of “hate speech” and, less imaginatively, “fuck you.” ”
Or maybe you just want to bicker and argue with everyone who doesn’t agree with you…and wouldn’t that be hate speech organized by you?
Damn! 12 years in the Marines protecting I guess their parents to bring up this? When I was in high school I wasn’t such a waste of..let’s see. Parental guidance-MIA Their high school guidance couselor obviously let them slip through the cracks, Amherst used to be a good school, no Hofstra U., now I’d say it’s a preschool. I’ve had my share of triggers, you squeeeze them. These kids have no clue yet. And they welcome a Muslim in? Send them to N. Carolina.
Rob,
Thank you for your service, Sir. It must piss you off when you see this kind of claptrap spouting nonsense.
Rob, even those GOP claptrap spouters are guaranteed the right to say whatever enters their minds.
Well black lives matter groups, give me a break. Those thugs kill off each other faster than they talk. Just look at the numbers of black on black murders in say Chicago. You can tell they all have good up bringing just listen to there foul language.
Think of all the people who have given everything for this great country to have it dismantled by those young communist. Those brain dead pups have no idea the USSR killed over sixty nine million mostly white’s while in power. Eighty six men controlled the USSR of which eighty three were Jew’s using the states money and their power to pay gentile’s to destroy gentile’s and this is what will happen to our once great USA. Those little brainless pups know nothing about the history of our country and could care less. Our schools and university’s have been infiltrated by those 1960 radicals which should be serving prison time for their actions. God help us.
School loans became totally(almost) under written by government, guaranteeing loans… all the School institute needs do is pander to the student for x number of years and take the money. So of course the Institutes allowed anything for that money. Garbage degrees or unlimited pandering, just as long as the cash flow continues.
Now they find themselves backed into the same corner every over indulgent parent finds themselves in when performing the same way with a child. At some point the institutions will realize it is they whom created the monster.. and the monster will eat them if not pushed back.
Lock these lunatics up!! ENOUGH OF THESE IMBECILES!!! Why did you not tell me Magilla Gorilla was in college?? Dang it,I have been looking for him everywhere!! that is all
Hilarious to see these precious snowflakes melted down into puddles of idiocy. Don’t they realize that free speech works both ways? If they don’t like what they hear, they can very easily leave the auditorium. But instead, they preferred to sit on their brains while listening to those who represent free speech turn them into puddling masses of crybabies.
I say we should return the draft. All the healthy people on welfare should be drafted into the military and learn to serve their country with Honor. If they serve their country with Honor then we pay for their college.
If you turn the sound down, it looks like she is screaming, “where the hell are my twinkles and hobos.
Once college is free this will get 100 times worse. You will have the nastiest of the nasy roaming those halls. Drug dealers will go to free college to sell drugs. Evil people will go to free college to rape women. It will make a college education absolutely worthless, which we are almost there anyway with these entitled cry baby punks. Welcome to liberalism.