Ann Coulter, a liberal flame, officially accepted an invitation to talk at Cornell University on April 16. Around 18 months after her most recent speech that ended quickly due to student protests, the speech is scheduled to take place.
The popular, controversial author recently spoke on Nov. 9, 2022, just after that month’s midterm elections. Her chat was supposed to go on for an hour, but regular, angry taunting from protesting pupils disrupted it with violent comments, songs, and loud noises.
After about 20 moments of protests inside the place, a upset Coulter finished the conversation.
Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff sent the proposal right away. According to reports, Nate Strossen, a doctor at New York University Law School and former head of the American Civil Liberties Union, made the original idea to him in January that Coulter may return to college.
The Cornell Daily Sun reported that Strossen told them Kotlikoff responded quickly, saying” Oh, that’s a great idea”. Coulter accepted the invitation for the middle of April, according to Strassen to the Sun.
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In a letter to the editor of the Sun on March 13, Kotlikoff wrote that” I apologise to an invited speaker at Cornell ( any speaker ) being shouted down and unable to present her views,” and that there could be few more powerful demonstrations of Cornell’s commitment to free expression than having Ms. Coulter return to campus and present her views.
But Kotlikoff is no admirer of Coulter’s.
He continued in his speech,” This is certainly not because I agree with what she has to say or because I think the information of her lecture is essential for our society to speak, but because I think Cornell needs to be a place where tips are protected and inviolable.”
The fundamental function of a university is undermined by filtering campus speakers based on the content of their presentations or excluding students or other members of our community from viewpoints with which they disagree.
At least one professor has been prompted by the decision to demand that Coulter’s return be voided.
” Coulter contributes nothing polite or thoughtful to the conversation. She adores causing a fire, burning things down and inflaming tensions. She propagates hate and racism. She is not a free speech test. She engages in hate speech, wrote professor of religious studies Jane Marie Law in a letter to the Cornell Sun’s editor.
“…Publicly reverse course. Do it now. There are choices you can make if you wanted to invite a prominent right-wing speaker. With the high stakes the world is currently facing, she continued,” It is a total waste of our time as an institution trying to figure out how to deal with a person like Coulter”,” she continued.
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The American Council of Trustees and Alumni criticized this assertion, which claimed Cornell faculty never supported Coulter but instead supported a Cornell colleague who described the deadly Hamas attacks as “exhilarating.”
” Ms. Coulter is known for making statements that many find offensive, but if a professor who sympathizes with Hamas still has a job, then surely Cornellians can tolerate having a provocative conservative on campus for an hour or two,” ACTA said.
According to the Sun, it is still unclear what Coulter will talk about or which student organizations will sponsor her presentation.
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