Well I would like to hold the Middlebury students who disrupted the event to that same standard.
@HarvestMoon1 - the protestors or whoever it was that pulled the professor’s hair? Because the first sounds a lot like free speech to me, and the latter, well, nobody here has argued that the assailant should not be punished.
I am happy to have someone who opposes Murray and has actually read his work. But your lack of reasons why are disappointing. You attribute it to his work being so widely discredited that it is simply not worth your time.
Because if Charles Murray’s work is so thoroughly discredited in academia, why do you think that he was defended by 52 academics for the work in The Bell Curve? And long after The Bell Curve, why was he still getting articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including more articles on race and IQ?
Is it instead possible that you find his position so distasteful that you take the positions of people that criticize his work and accept that to mean his work is widely discredited, when in fact everyone’s work is criticized?
I’m sure Middlebury is dealing with its student policy violations as it sees fit. This site enforces its ToS as it sees fit as well. If the two have different policies or different enforcement methods, well, that doesn’t indicate any contradiction or (gasp!) hypocrisy, though.