{"id":1904944,"date":"2023-03-25T21:11:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T01:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-is-not-free-speech-to-silence-others-judge-kyle-duncan-speaks-out-about-mob-crashing-his-stanford-law-school-talk\/"},"modified":"2023-03-25T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T01:12:49","slug":"it-is-not-free-speech-to-silence-others-judge-kyle-duncan-speaks-out-about-mob-crashing-his-stanford-law-school-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-is-not-free-speech-to-silence-others-judge-kyle-duncan-speaks-out-about-mob-crashing-his-stanford-law-school-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Is Not Free Speech To Silence Others\u2019: Judge Kyle Duncan Speaks Out About Mob Crashing His Stanford Law School Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-is-not-free-speech-to-silence-others-judge-kyle-duncan-speaks-out-about-mob-crashing-his-stanford-law-school-talk%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1904944&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Federal judge Kyle Duncan spoke about the recent debacle he suffered during a talk at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/notre-dame-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Notre Dame<\/a>\u2018s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5A7W4OiN4Rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lecture<\/a> from Duncan Friday. The speech was about his lecture at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stanford-president-law-school-dean-apologize-to-judge-after-verbal-assault-on-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford Law School<\/a> earlier this month, when he was shouted down by students and an administrator. Duncan spoke about the consequences and ramifications of free speech that the Stanford debacle highlighted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe importance of today\u2019s event I think really needs no explanation,\u201d Notre Dame professor Philip Munoz said while introducing Duncan. \u201cWhat happened two weeks ago at Stanford Law School raises fundamental questions about free speech and our liberal democracy and how healthy our free speech culture is \u2026 especially at our nation\u2019s elite schools.\u201d Munoz also noted that members of the Stanford Federalist Society were watching the lecture virtually.<\/p>\n<p>Duncan began his talk by praising the enduring tradition of free speech, including student protests. \u201c[America is] a great country, where you can harshly criticize federal judges and nothing bad will happen to you,\u201d he said. \u201cYou might even get praised or promoted. \u2026 The students at Stanford and other elite law schools swim in an ocean of free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut make no mistake, what went on in that classroom on March the ninth had nothing to do with our proud American tradition of free speech,\u201d Duncan noted. \u201cIt was rather a parody of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not free speech to silence others because you hate them,\u201d Duncan continued. \u201cIt is not free speech to jeer and heckle a speaker who has been invited to your school so that he can\u2019t deliver a talk. It is not free speech to form a mob and hurl taunts and threats that aren\u2019t worthy of being written on the wall of a public toilet. It is not free speech to pretend to be harmed by words or ideas you disagree with, and then use that feigned harm as a license to deny a speaker the most rudimentary forms of civility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duncan rebuked the idea that the hecklers were engaging in \u201ccounter speech,\u201d or participating in the \u201cmarketplace of ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCounter speech means offering a reasoned response to an argument,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean screaming \u2018Shut up, you scum we hate you,\u2019 at a distance of 12 feet. \u2026 The marketplace of ideas describes a free and fair competition among opposing arguments, with the most compelling one, we hope, emerging on the top. What transpired at Stanford was no marketplace. It was more like a flash mob on a shoplifting spree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-441512\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Duncan said the mob had no intention of engaging with his ideas. \u201c[T]he mob had no interest in my talk at all,\u201d the judge remarked. \u201cThey were there to heckle and to cheer and to shame. Let\u2019s say the quiet part out loud: The mob came to target me because they hate my work and my ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protest had nothing to do with free speech, he concluded. \u201cIt had everything to do with intimidation. And to be clear, not intimidating me. I\u2019m not intimidated by this. I\u2019m a life-tenured judge. I\u2019m going to go back to my court and keep writing opinions. No, the target of the intimidation was the protesters\u2019 fellow students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge Kyle Duncan spoke about the recent debacle he suffered during a talk at Stanford University. The University of Notre Dame\u2018s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government hosted a lecture from Duncan Friday. The speech was about his lecture at Stanford Law School earlier this month, when he was shouted down by students and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1904945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9528,22782,7454,5387,5172,6547,15146,5431,3924,5796,3625,4554,10594,5852],"class_list":["post-1904944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-crashing","tag-duncan","tag-it","tag-judge","tag-kyle","tag-law","tag-mob","tag-others","tag-school","tag-silence","tag-speaks","tag-speech","tag-stanford","tag-talk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}