So this speaker got shouted down at my school's event last Thursday

I was at a talk on our campus about media bias, and this guy from a local paper was maybe two minutes into his opening when a group of students in the back just started yelling over him. They had a megaphone and everything. The whole room froze for a second. The speaker tried to keep going, but the shouts about 'platforming harmful views' just got louder. The event organizers, who were just a student club, looked totally lost. It ended with the speaker leaving the stage and the whole thing being called off after maybe ten minutes total. I get wanting to protest, but shutting down the talk before anyone even heard the arguments felt wrong. Has anyone else seen a protest go that way, where the point gets lost in just stopping the speech?

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nguyen.angela25d ago

That's just creating the echo chamber they claim to fight against.

diana_kim6625d ago

They brought a megaphone? @nguyen.angela is totally right.

logan_wells25d ago

Yeah, the "echo chamber" line is spot on. I saw a whole article about how that backfires.