Cowardice and Hypocrisy at a University

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American higher education really is a hive of hypocrisy and cowardice.

I have been invited by a student group to give a talk at Colorado Mesa University. This has caused a big fuss on campus, and a performance by the university president, John Marshall, that is as comical as it is contemptible.

He started out with an 800-word message to the entire campus in which he said my views are “abhorrent” and that my “speaking engagement could be the most difficult and important test Colorado Mesa University has faced when it comes to free speech.” However, his campus is “a place where all ideas can be expressed, bad ideas can be peacefully challenged, and in the end, defeated.”

“Our task is to empower you to pursue truth,” he added. And the way to do that is “to allow space for all opinions across the political and ideological spectrum.”

Sounds like a fine sentiment. President Marshall even called free speech “sacred.” He told students, “it’s the opportunity of your life . . . to carefully deconstruct his [meaning my] dehumanizing ideas.”

Too bad he’s already decided they’re “dehumanizing,” but I could forgive him for that if he really wants students to “pursue truth” by coming to my talk and grappling with unfamiliar ideas.

He said he would show up “to peacefully and respectfully demonstrate.”

He sure likes to split infinitives. I was glad to know he wouldn’t be rioting, but he said he wouldn’t attend my talk. That’s odd. He said it’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance for students to challenge and defeat bad ideas, but all he’s going to do is stand outside?

I wrote to suggest that he do the challenging and defeating: “I invite you to take the stage after my talk and explain why I am wrong.”

I perhaps tactlessly reminded him that one of the defining values he claims for his campus is “courage.”

This university president wasn’t man enough to reply. Instead, I heard back from the student president, who began her letter with “Dear Jared.” She explained that President Marshall wouldn’t answer me because “he has already accepted a better invitation to attend a better event focused on love, dignity, and TRUE courage.” She has scheduled this lovefest for the same time as my talk, so no one can attend both, and that’s how the university will “defeat [my] ignorant, hateful ideas.” She ended with “love and peace.”

If this event were right after my speech, students could listen to me first, but it’s timed to make sure students won’t hear what I say. I guess President Marshall doesn’t want students to “pursue truth” by challenging and defeating bad ideas after all. He’ll be the star of a self-styled “counter-narrative” deliberately set up to keep students even from hearing those ideas—to keep them ignorant. His board of trustees should think seriously about his fitness for the job.

Just yesterday, the student president sent out a campus-wide message: Jared Taylor “runs and founded the American Renaissance Conference alongside neo-Nazis, racists, and Klansmen.”

My “presence makes many of us if not all of us feel unsafe, unheard, and unwelcome.”

Golly. The whole campus is cowering. She invites students to attend the “multiple events” that will apparently be required to counteract my terrifying presence. Will there be milk and cookies? Stuffed animals to comfort traumatized students

I’m sure all the campus toadies will have a wonderful time raging against ideas of which they are deliberately ignorant and congratulating each other on their “TRUE courage.” Nothing could be more conformist and submissive.

The Colorado Mesa University mascot is the maverick.

What’s a maverick? “An unorthodox or independent-minded person.” Synonyms are “nonconformist,” “rebel,” “dissenter,” and a maverick is the opposite of a conformist.

I don’t know what the campus was like before President Marshall, but I propose a new mascot: the herd-animal moo-cow.