“To many college students—especially in California—diversity is acceptable only as long as a person’s beliefs align with their own…”
Protestors successfully put a stop to a pro-police speech given by scholar and author Heather Mac Donald at Claremont McKenna College in southern California. Not only did the protestors carry on with the highly degrading chant of “F*** the Police,” they also threw “Black lives matter” into the mix. Mac Donald said she was forced to end her speech because the protestors were getting out of hand and posing a serious safety risk, as well as prevented many students of the school from attending her speech. Most of the protestors were middle aged and weren’t even students enrolled at the college.
Organizers of the protest posted a statement to Facebook stating that Heather Mac Donald voiced opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement and further supported police officers therefore, she has got to be a white supremacist. That’s how it works these days in America, isn’t it? All it takes is to disagree with someone to be lumped in with the likes of Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan. Violent protestors have made it increasingly difficult for college campuses to remain truly diverse. To many college students—especially in California—diversity is acceptable only as long as a person’s beliefs align with their own. Never mind the fact that institutions of higher learning are supposed to be exactly that.
Many of these colleges in California have demonstrated that they expect one standard for every student with complete disregard for their religion, beliefs, ideas, or background. Protestors will take to the street to make an embarrassment out of themselves in front of the entire nation to fight a cause that is only seen through their short-sighted vision. They call on everyone in the United States to stand with them as social justice warriors and those who choose otherwise are “part of the problem.” Racists even.
Why not? It’s the trendy thing to do when someone shows support to police officers or law enforcement. More people in the United States have begun to vilify not only local law enforcement personnel, but federal agencies as well. Hostile protestors would rather see police fall than to share dialogue or even try and coexist in a community. For them and all police, I will always show support and solidarity no matter the issue. Not all police are bad or dishonorable. It’s a sad day in the United States when an author and scholar can’t even finish a public speech about being pro-law enforcement without needing a police escort of her own to safely leave the premises.
Angelina Newsom is an OpsLens Contributor and U.S. Army Veteran. She has ten years experience in the military, including a deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She studies Criminal Justice and is still active within the military community.
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