Cornell University stands up against the woke mob

Published November 20, 2022 12:00am ET



The story of conservative speakers visiting college campuses and getting shouted down or disrupted by irate mobs of woke students has become sadly commonplace. But the latest such incident actually has an upside: For once, a top university is standing up for free speech and punishing the protesters.

It all started when the controversial conservative author Ann Coulter came to speak at her alma mater, Cornell University. As shown in the below video, eight college-aged protesters disrupted her speech, shouting, “Your words are violence!” and “We don’t want you to speak here.” Coulter was supposed to speak for an hour but reportedly ended up leaving after 20 minutes because the protests were so disruptive.

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