"Violence can work wonders, making colleges afraid to allow controversial speakers on campus, lest they suffer the fates of the University of California-Berkeley and Middlebury.
So why would “intersectional” anti-Trump activists at George Washington University want to give it up?
The GW Hatchet obtained the minutes from the first meeting of a group calling itself the GW Coalition for Intersectional Justice:On Nov. 10, members of at least 25 student organizations came to the first meeting for the group …
But the group fractured in their second meeting Nov. 20 when some student leaders opposed mandating nonviolence, which kept protesting students from burning flags and practicing self-defense in potential altercations with President Donald Trump’s supporters.
An official with the Mexican Students Association said it was his group’s idea to renounce violence in the meetings to form the coalition, which drew about 50 student organization leaders:
...At a second meeting attended by “at least” 38 students, the groups agreed on the “intersectional” name and condemned “violence in all forms against marginalized people” – but not those they didn’t consider marginalized..."
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