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KNOWLES: Here’s What Happened When I Visited George Washington University

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Students in Kogan Plaza, George Washington University campus, Washington, DC.
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On Thursday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about his recent George Washington University speech, which was interrupted by left-wing protestors. Video and partial transcript below: 

You figure, if you choose to go to a university called George Washington University, you probably at least don’t hate George Washington. I was so wrong, how wrong I was. 

I’m giving this speech, and about 10 minutes in some alarm goes off. And as I’m just describing some of George Washington’s historical feats, some pretty basic aspect of Washington’s life, these students leapt to their feet and start shrieking profanities vulgarities, “F-you, F-you, you’re a fascist,” and I ask: What did I say that you objected to? What did I say that is making you call me all these things and making you have this hysterical emotional breakdown in a classroom? None of them could give any sort of answer. …

So it’s hard to hear over the shrieks and the “shame” and “fascist” and all this, but what I mentioned is that a lot of the reason why left-wingers at colleges get upset by George Washington where they get upset by Christopher Columbus, they get upset by America itself is because of ignorance. They’re uneducated and obviously, students are uneducated — they’re getting educated, that’s why they’re students. But they’re particularly uneducated these days because they have not been taught the history of their own country. And, in many ways, they’ve been taught an anti-history of their country written by left-wing polemicist like Howard Zinn, for instance, who wrote “People’s History of the United States.”

So I made this point and then right on cue, these kids jump up and start shrieking nonsense and I said, “You know, you’re really not disproving my point here, kids. If the point you’re trying to make is that you’re really not uneducated, you’re really not emotionally volatile and whacky, then this is not the sort of behavior you should engage in.” So the kids finally storm out and we go on with the rest of the lecture. 

This has happened to me a few times on campuses. Ironically, it always happens when I’m discussing the bland U.S. topics, but I notice in this culture, it’s the most basic truths that are the truths that the Left wants to deny. 

They have to force you to not believe your own lying eyes, so they have to force you not to believe that men are different than women. They have to force you to believe that men are the same as women, and if you challenge this then they’ll shriek at you. They have to force you to believe that your country, America, is just absolutely rotten to the core, and nobody’s more rotten than the founder of the country. And if you say no, that that really isn’t backed up by any historical evidence, they’ll shriek and they’ll scream and they’ll shout.

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