Actually, it was just 9 to 17 years ago that Hinderaker was decrying what he wholly imagined were government “campus speech codes”.
He felt they were Unconstitutional – and UNAMERICAN, back then. But that was because Mr. Obama was the one advocating for clearer federal definitions of “hate crimes”.
Tonight, ironically, when Tangerine 2.0 ACTUALlY forces Columbia University to self-censor certain words, ideas and philosophical views on campus (by cutting off $400 million in federal funds) Hinderaker cheers the effort.
Charming. This all stems from student protests surrounding the way Israel’s policies are brutalizing innocent civilians in Gaza. Hinderaker and the other Powerline boys have repeatedly called for harsh criminal penalties against the student protesters.
But when at Dartmouth — during the Vietnam war — John Hinderaker took over a campus administrative building and held it for three days to protest against US policies in Vietnam. He and his cohorts saw their records cleared, their paths opened to Harvard Law School (another clever way to avoid being drafted into the Army to fight Vietnam before the conflict was over) — and made fortunes practicing law that embedded those very same freedoms he used at Dartmouth the protest.
So it is all… a rather puzzling scene, here (now in his 70s) to see him cheering Donald Trump, for officially suppressing campus speech.
I guess I’m just getting old, because it sure seems like as Hinderaker gets older… he becomes more and more… an autocrat’s apologist. He wants less… freedom, for every kid on campus who enrolled at any time after he graduated.
Cra-cra. Out.
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