It was not enough, it seems, for liberal Georgetown students to guard their ears from Christina Hoff Sommers with “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings,” lest they hear something about rape statistics and the gender wage gap with which they—gasp!—disagree.
Now they want the recordings of her remarks edited, presumably because they are now embarrassed by how petulant their protests appeared on tape after attracting national attention.
Sommers, a feminist scholar who objects to several of the left’s most popular theories about the prevalence of rape and sexism in the workplace, spoke at the university two weeks ago. She was greeted by a wave of protesters ushering people to “safe spaces” and declaring her speech “anti-feminism.”
Georgetown University has now requested that the College Republicans ensure that the video is edited, supposedly because the students did not consent to being recorded. Laurel Conrad of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, which sponsored and recorded Sommers’ speech, writes that the assistant director for Georgetown’s Center for Student Engagement has warned them that if they are “unwilling or unresponsive to the request, Georgetown will need to step in.”
Conrad objects that “it stretches credulity that Georgetown and its students would not understand that the lecture was a public event,” noting that the camera was in plain view.
While many Universities are accustomed to bullying students until they bend to a left wing point of view, a conservative women’s organization named after the courageous Clare Boothe Luce is not impressed or moved by such bullying.
