Imagine this: redneck shotgun toting nationalists going toe to toe with trust fund poster carrying Ivy League students.
Well, it happened.
On October 4th, Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen Project spoke at Columbia University. Columbia’s College Republicans invited Gilchrist to the school. Tensions began to mount when Gilchrist performed a mock phone call to his wife while he was on stage.
“I’m amongst the largest eclectic collection of social maladroits that I’ve ever seen in my life, you won’t believe it,” Gilchrist said on the phone over whistles and boos from the crowd.
Shortly after this “call” and during his speech, student protestors flooded the stage and started yelling indignantly, or I mean, started protesting. They held a sign that said, “No one is illegal.”
The minutemen then took the next logical step–physically attacking the protestors. Brilliant.
The end result was a decent scuffle mixed in with some poster tug of war, until security went onstage and cleared things up. In the end, the students ousted the minutemen, who are unable to secure their own stage against Ivy League students, much less the border against illegal immigrants.
Gilchrist then left shortly after the incident, and after advice from his legal consultant. In the aftermath, Kevin Hahulski, a supporter of the minutemen, has now been identified as kicking a protestor walking below him on the floor of the auditorium.
Moreover, the Minutemen Project plans to file a lawsuit for “discrimination and defamation of character,” according to the Columbia Spectator. Protestors have also had letters sent to them by the university discussing possible charges against them.
What an incident. You would think that Ivy League students would have more sense than this, but apparently not. The elite scholars in the nation apparently don’t have enough common sense or maturity to conduct themselves in an orderly fashion.
If you oppose someone else’s viewpoints, it is standard procedure to let them talk, and then answer with your own rebuttal.
It’s called being civilized.
The protestors at Columbia acted like children covering their ears and yelling at the top of their lungs.