Mob Rule and Cancel Culture at Hastings Law School
Wall Street Journal | Ilya Shapiro
Ilya Shapiro, the Georgetown Law hire under investigation by the school for his tweet criticizing the restriction of SCOTUS nominees by race and sex, recounts the mob shutting down his March 2022 talk at Hastings Law School: “I’ve given more than 1,000 speeches in my career, and I’d never been protested—until March 1, when dozens of students shut down my event…”
“They screamed obscenities and physically confronted me, several times getting in my face or blocking my access to the lectern, and they shouted down a dean. They also castigated their school for allowing me to speak and circulated a letter demanding ‘a committee of diverse student representatives’ to approve speakers as well as mandatory training in critical race theory for students and faculty.”
While Shapiro would like an opportunity to speak at Hastings, he finds it “even more important to have a national reckoning about our inability to discuss controversial issues without canceling our opponents.”
