http://twitter.com/#!/holtcw/status/519311152850165760

American academia in a nutshell. One school invites a murderer who killed a Philadelphia police officer to address a commencement ceremony and to the left it’s a great victory for freedom of speech. Another invites a well respected conservative columnist but he’s disinvited because of something he wrote in one of his columns.

What’s wrong with this picture? Murder is cool but a challenging idea is unacceptable?

Scripps College invites @georgewillf to speak, rescinds because of one of his columns. http://t.co/quh3hsAyjC

— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) October 7, 2014

@RameshPonnuru @georgewillf Just one? That will probably offend him.

— Jason Riley (@jasonrileywsj) October 7, 2014

@RameshPonnuru @georgewillf Damn George, did you kill a cop?

— UW (@UWedge) October 7, 2014

That would probably get him more invitations.

Shameful “@RameshPonnuru: Scripps College invites @georgewillf to speak, rescinds because of one of his columns. http://t.co/8cUhIOXPiz”

— cousineddie (@cousineddie) October 7, 2014

Via @RameshPonnuru the best lead graf today, and probably all week. http://t.co/0nv94ffqxt

— Just Karl (@justkarl) October 7, 2014

Indeed.

A prominent conservative political pundit was uninvited from speaking at Scripps College, in a program designed to promote conservative views on campus, because of his conservative views.

"Liberals claim … to give a hearing to other views .. then are … offended to discover that there are other views” http://t.co/NIAmhX8cWA

— L (@OrwellForks) October 7, 2014

Crazy.

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