The Silencing of Heather Mac Donald
No one who knows her could ever describe Heather Mac Donald as a victim.
Still, last Thursday night the Manhattan Institute scholar became the latest target of the latter-day Red Guards bringing chaos to so many American campuses. Ms. Mac Donald had been invited to talk about her book “The War on Cops” at Claremont McKenna College’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum. Among her arguments is that if you truly believe black lives matter, maybe you should recognize “there is no government agency more dedicated to the proposition” than the police who protect the law-abiding minority residents of high-crime neighborhoods.
.. But no one asks whether this might have something to do with a generation of students indulged in the view that they should never have to hear an opinion different from their own.