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Video: Mizzou Protest Shuts Down First Amendment
A young photojournalist tried to do his job today and take pictures of a protest movement roiling the University of Missouri. The protest, named #ConcernedStudent1950, complains of institutionalized racism at the Mizzou campus and society at large. Their disruption has gotten so bad, the university president decided to resign earlier today. Since this is obviously news, sympathetic reporters are there to spread the protesters’ progressive message. Unfortunately for the journalists, Mizzou doesn’t seem to teach its students about the First Amendment.
Published in Education
The thing is, it’s not an option. It’s not something we can do by legislation or otherwise. I don’t even live in Missouri. However, as a taxpayer concerned about our educational system, I oppose using tax dollars to subsidize or otherwise support activities that are destroying our universities and our educational system, and there comes a point where we can do more to save it by cutting off those funds for which we are responsible.
But you are making it difficult for us to point out how they are destroying our university system when your first call is to shut it down. I don’t want us to be them.