Professors Rip Their Alma Mater For Failing To Defend Free Speech

The war on free speech being waged by Social Justice Warriors on college campuses across the country has been largely met with cowardice by faculty and administrators, who seem to believe the best way to handle fascistic, violence-prone bullies is coddling and retreat. So it's heartening to see those who actually have a spine in higher education take a stand against the mob that is rapidly turning universities into the least free-thinking places in the country.

Six alumni of Middlebury College, who are also college faculty and administrators at other institutions, penned an open letter to their alma mater shaming it for failing to adequately defend free speech and outlining steps it can take to set a much-needed example for other colleges around the U.S.

Middlebury was the scene of one of the more reprehensible literal assaults on free speech in recent months: the leftist mob's shutdown of a discussion featuring widely respected scholar Charles Murray, which devolved into violence and left Middlebury Professor Allison Stanger with a concussion (Stanger, by the way, went on to blame Donald Trump for the students' violence).

The Middlebury alumni say enough is enough. Here's how the letter begins:

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