Opinion

Professor Injured In Middlebury Riot Over Charles Murray Defends Rioters, Blames Trump

Ben Shapiro

On Tuesday, Professor Allison Stanger of Middlebury College wrote in the pages of The New York Times to defend the students of the university for their vile behavior during a visit by American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray. Stanger herself was injured in a scrum by the students; she received a concussion for the privilege of hosting Murray, has to wear a neck brace, and spent a week in a dark room to deal with the symptoms of the injury. The students, you’ll recall, stood there and shouted, “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Charles Murray go away!” before some of them surrounded Murray and Stanger on the way out of the event, attempting to physically harm them.

But Stanger’s now working to justify the students, or at least provide an explanation of their behavior that doesn’t begin and end with “they’re idiot leftist snowflakes”:

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