It’s easy to write off student protesters, but is it really their fault for inheriting a campus culture of safe spaces and micro-aggressions? During Wednesday’s The Five, Greg Gutfeld delivered one of his epic commentaries on the subject.
A student had interrupted an event at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst featuring Christina Hoff Summers, Milo Yiannopolous, and Steven Crowder on Monday by screaming “rape apologist” and “hate speech is not welcome here.” As others tried to get the young woman to contain herself, she screamed that her interruptions were free speech, and continued to yell inaudibly and shook her fists.
While Gutfeld admitted “it’s easy to mock her,” he highlighted a larger concern:
Gutfeld had strong words for the media as well. It is now racist to correct grammar, Mona Chalabi, an editor for The Guardian, claims in a video. Chalabi may be “the actual bigot,” Gutfeld suggested, if it’s too much to expect minorities to have proper grammar.
Chalabi “is guilty of activist privilege, an arrogance that allows you to decide who can or can’t handle standards, or objective truths,” Gutfeld said. Co-host Eric Bolling later suggested that the publication’s copy editor shouldn’t edit any pieces to avoid racism.
“The virus is spreading … the campus, once an exchange of ideas, is now a daycare center for outraged merchants gurgling vitriol donning full diapers of non-thinking hate,” Gutfeld said. For that, they’d be “excellent candidates for positions at The Guardian.”
The students “should be lucky to have people come to their school and speak and get up there in front of them,” co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle mentioned. “But ew, Kimberley, new ideas, new ideas are scary” Gutfeld said as he imitated students.
Guilfoyle called the student behavior “so rude” and suggested bringing back manners, but Gutfeld remindered her “that’s the point,” that manners and grammar are racist.
