{"id":1905254,"date":"2023-03-27T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-mob-shows-how-speech-restrictions-reinforce-social-isolation\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T04:58:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:58:40","slug":"stanford-mob-shows-how-speech-restrictions-reinforce-social-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-mob-shows-how-speech-restrictions-reinforce-social-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Mob Shows How Speech Restrictions Reinforce Social Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fstanford-mob-shows-how-speech-restrictions-reinforce-social-isolation%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=1905254&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Stanford University has again proved itself to be a cesspit of hostility toward the First Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>In the most <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1634426288260743168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent attack on free speech<\/a> at its law school, a mob of students \u2014 egged on by Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach \u2014 shouted down Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan who had been invited to speak by the Stanford chapter of the Federalist Society.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-946135295\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b11b95d7e228dfa968ae6059a9d016c5 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b11b95d7e228dfa968ae6059a9d016c5\"><\/div>\n<p>If we are ever to combat such mob rule, we must first try to analyze exactly what it represents, beyond its appalling spectacle. It illustrates how political censorship and demonization are standard political tools used to socially isolate people. Tyrants have always strived for such isolation to establish regimes of ironclad social control. Understanding this pattern is key for successful pushback.<\/p>\n<p>Every American should take note of the Stanford incident. The mob rule displayed there is a small sample of what everyone will experience if we do not push back hard against mounting assaults on free speech.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"bK3DUqCPjpGzo8uvn0XcMRELwBA2yg4xt1TsF5N9I7r\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stanford Law students shouted down Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan while he was trying to speak. <\/p>\n<p>When he asked for an administrator to control the situation, Stanford\u2019s \u201cassociate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d got up and lectured him for nearly 10 minutes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tjlUPOIMmQ\">pic.twitter.com\/tjlUPOIMmQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeBeacon\/status\/1634426288260743168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The situation worsened after the dean of the law school, Jenny Martinez, and Stanford President Marc Tessier-Levigne <a href=\"https:\/\/law.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/letter-from-Stanford.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued a tepid letter of apology<\/a> to Duncan, stating that the disruption was \u201cinconsistent with our policies on free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The psychotic mob grew as hundreds of activists quickly mobilized to punish Martinez by lining the hallways outside her classroom. The 10 or so students (out of some 60) in Martinez\u2019s class who did not join the mob were also harassed by the masked protesters all clad in Antifa-black. Such folks are the sort to whom Stanford\u2019s administrators suggested the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/stanford-tells-federalist-society-students-to-reach-out-to-diversity-dean-who-encouraged-disruption-of-their-event-and-to-shut-up-on-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">school\u2019s Federalist Society should \u201creach out.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5be85b537fda913ab2c7bb60979a0454 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5be85b537fda913ab2c7bb60979a0454\"><\/div>\n<h2>War on Speech or War on Thought?<\/h2>\n<p>But we should expect no less from the institution that served as ground zero for the elimination of free inquiry in universities across America.<\/p>\n<p>Gag orders against any form of real conversation have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/04\/05\/stanford-students-fight-campus-groupthink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accelerated at American colleges<\/a> at least since 1987 when Jesse Jackson led a mob through Stanford\u2019s campus chanting \u201cHey Hey! Ho Ho! Western Civ has got to go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what aspect of the canon of Western Civilization do you think most bothered the academic mafia behind that attack? They may have raised concerns about too many \u201cdead white males\u201d in Western literature or about the possibility of finding bigotry and the acceptance of slavery in those writings. But they were rallying primarily against inquiry itself.<\/p>\n<p>What they have always hated most about the Western canon is that it cultivates independent thought. Nothing irritates aspiring tyrants more than the true cross-pollination of ideas. They hate free speech precisely because free speech is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/06\/06\/todays-two-main-political-camps-pro-thought-versus-anti-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pro-thought<\/a>. They have decided they alone possess the \u201cright answer,\u201d and free speech threatens it.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-254653c13ff3efcf8e4c79d0530e5a8e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-254653c13ff3efcf8e4c79d0530e5a8e\"><\/div>\n<p>Hence, they lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/06\/06\/todays-two-main-political-camps-pro-thought-versus-anti-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-thought camp<\/a> eager to abolish the exploration of ideas, the Socratic method, respect for the individual, and civil discourse \u2014 all of which are inherent in Western civilization. Free speech serves as the foundation for any vibrant civilization, Western or otherwise.<\/p>\n<h2>Lip Service to Free Speech<\/h2>\n<p>I suppose we should see it as a sign of hope that the enemies of free speech still give it some lip service. But Stanford\u2019s official apology feels like just another <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/18\/why-ruling-class-minions-are-so-suddenly-doing-damage-control-on-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">limited hangout<\/a>, a partial concession used as a stopgap measure to preserve the anti-speech agenda. Even Steinbach punctuated her defamatory attacks against Duncan with the false claim that she somehow believes in free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The mob agitation that followed the official apology proved that there is a very organized effort to shut down speech at Stanford, particularly speech in defense of free speech. The activist mob of hundreds, who gathered to intimidate Martinez and the students who refused to join them, wore masks upon which was written the absurd slogan \u201ccounter speech is free speech.\u201d In other words, mob rule that shuts down the speech of others through intimidation bordering on violence is, in some Orwellian fashion, free speech.<\/p>\n<p>But I do not think members of such mobs really believe all of the wokeness stuff about victimhood, etc. They merely join to avoid the ostracism that tyrants always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Weaponization-Loneliness-Tyrants-Isolation-Silence\/dp\/1637582021\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=weaponization+of+loneliness&#038;s=books&#038;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">use as a political weapon against dissidents<\/a>. The irony is that any relief is short-lived because mass compliance with this anti-speech and anti-thought agenda promises to be suicidal for society at large.<\/p>\n<h2>Censorship Is Meant to Separate<\/h2>\n<p>The war on the First Amendment seems to have reached a tipping point that bodes ill for everyone in America, not just on campuses. As Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger pointed out so clearly, there is indeed a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1633830035336601603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Censorship-Industrial Complex<\/a>\u201d that involves the government, Big Tech, the media, and numerous other institutions. <\/p>\n<p>And the assaults have become more blatant \u2014 from the government\u2019s push for a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/09\/the-biden-administrations-new-disinformation-board-is-a-tool-straight-from-soviet-russias-kgb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disinformation Governance Board<\/a>,\u201d to MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough\u2019s recent claim that the First Amendment is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/alex-christy\/2023\/02\/22\/morning-joe-declares-free-speech-be-out-date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">out of date<\/a>,\u201d to Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2023\/03\/03\/schumer_fox_news_has_hurt_our_democracy_more_than_anyone_else_except_maybe_trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chuck Schumer\u2019s insistence on shutting down Fox News<\/a>, the only sizable cable media outlet not entirely captured by the Censorship-Industrial Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Few people seem to understand that constraints on political speech have the cruel effect of atomizing people. At Stanford, we saw how it results in mind-rape that turns otherwise bright people into flying monkeys for their woke masters. The same thing happened at Yale Law School when a mob shouted down an open panel on the issue of free speech. Afterward, the mob got some 60 percent of Yale law students to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Open-Letter-to-YLS-Administrators-on-Police-Presence-in-SLB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sign a letter condemning the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Think of it this way: When you can\u2019t speak openly to people, you are in effect isolated from them. So the tragedy of political censorship is that it cuts us off from one another, dividing us and cultivating hostilities. The First Amendment <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/02\/how-ending-freedom-of-expression-gives-up-your-right-to-a-private-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protects the private sphere of life<\/a>, including our families, our faith, and all of the relationships that give us inner strength.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a guess. Look at any society in which a regime shuts down speech through threats and punishments. The outcome is a society of fear, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/gen-z-less-tolerant-than-previous-generations-uk-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social distrust<\/a>, and high anxiety wherever a one-party state enforces its narrative. Hardcore political censorship induces the isolation and terror that has always been essential for propping up totalitarian regimes, including Jacobin France, Stalin\u2019s Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and Mao\u2019s murderous Cultural Revolution in China.<\/p>\n<p>Those who stray from the narrative are, at the very least, canceled as \u201cnon-persons\u201d and punished severely. The narratives to describe dissidents \u2014 \u201ccounterrevolutionaries!\u201d \u201cconspiracy theorists!\u201d \u201canti-vaxxers!\u201d \u201ctransphobes!\u201d \u201cbigots!\u201d \u201cfascists!\u201d \u2014 are designed to foment mobs and cultivate widespread hostility. How far down this road we have come in America is suggested by the ongoing loneliness epidemic and the rampant growth of cancel culture.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen these anti-speech tactics transpire a thousand times before. Political censorship is a dead end for any functioning society. It poisons our relationships.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, watch what happens when a door opens to real conversation:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"aNAx0HgQzJwhEudst5U7IHmlcC2LOI4yEfzYw0YK6j9PikpncQyoSWBgUeDZdKj89FqZR\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A college student began explaining his \u201cwhite privilege\u201d to me, so I decided to take the opportunity to deprogram him in live time: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CZGHtZancj\">pic.twitter.com\/CZGHtZancj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sav_says_\/status\/1634290136979501060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>We end up in a virtual state of isolation when we self-censor out of the fear of being ostracized. Free speech, on the other hand, acts as a beam of light that leads us to know others \u2014 and to know we are not alone.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7b8c122bda0350f71fd0385e351a24dd fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7b8c122bda0350f71fd0385e351a24dd\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Stella Morabito is a senior contributor at The Federalist. She is author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Weaponization-Loneliness-Tyrants-Isolation-Silence\/dp\/1637582021\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N5PGDDDUYGO4&#038;keywords=weaponization+of+loneliness&#038;qid=1666811187&#038;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&#038;sprefix=weaponization%2Caps%2C104&#038;sr=8-1\">The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer<\/a>.&#8221;    Her essays have appeared in various publications, including the Washington Examiner, American Greatness, Townhall, Public Discourse, and The Human Life Review. In her previous work as an intelligence analyst, Morabito focused on various aspects of Russian and Soviet politics, including communist media and propaganda.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stella_morabito\">Follow Stella on Twitter.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/censorship\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">censorship<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/first-amendment\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">First Amendment<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/free-speech\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">free speech<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/isolation\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">isolation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/social-isolation\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">social isolation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/speech\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">speech<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/stanford\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Stanford<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford University has again proved itself to be a cesspit of hostility toward the First Amendment. In the most recent attack on free speech at its law school, a mob of students \u2014 egged on by Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach \u2014 shouted down Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan who had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":1905255,"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":[546],"tags":[6454,15146,22818,3775,5127,4554,10594],"class_list":["post-1905254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-isolation","tag-mob","tag-reinforce","tag-restrictions","tag-social","tag-speech","tag-stanford"],"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\/1905254","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\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}