2
Watched a speaker get shouted down at my college, then saw the same thing happen online a week later
It was a visiting professor talking about election security at our student union. A group just kept yelling over him until he left. Then I saw a video from a different school where protestors did the exact same thing to a student group tabling. Feels like the playbook for shutting down speech is getting copied everywhere now, you know?
4 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In4 Comments
samk772mo agoTop Commenter
It's not just a playbook, it's a tactic that works. They've learned that disruption gets more attention than debate ever could.
8
bennett.harper2mo ago
Yeah because nothing says "winning the argument" like throwing a tantrum when you don't get your way. It's the political version of a toddler screaming in the cereal aisle. They don't want a discussion, they want a spotlight, and any reaction, good or bad, just gives them more camera time. It's a cheap trick that works on people who only read headlines.
6
adams.uma1mo ago
Watching that play out in real time is rough, but then you see the same crowd doing it online and it just feels like they're following a script. My cousin's roommate got into a debate on Twitter about housing costs and three people jumped in with copy-paste talking points, no actual conversation, just noise. It's like they're trying to win by making sure nobody else can even finish a sentence, which is a weird way to prove your ideas are good.
2