Here's the speech students at Williams College were too outraged and offended to hear - The College Fix:
Conservative female author and cultural critic Suzanne Venker, author of “The War on Men” and “The Flipside of Feminism,” was recently disinvited to speak at Williams College after student feminists there vehemently protested her scheduled appearance, and the student group that had invited her, “Uncomfortable Learning,” yielded to the pressure.
Below, reprinted with permission in its entirety, is the speech Venker had planned to give at Williams College.
"Good evening. I’d like to begin by talking about what it means to be truly educated.
An education rests upon an exchange of ideas.
It requires a free mind, one that is not swayed by groupthink.
Groupthink, or being told what to think rather than how to think, undermines the purpose of an education.
Another term for groupthink is “political correctness...”
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