They are not just interested in shutting down conservative speech. They want to shut down all speech they don’t agree with.
“First they came for the Jews …” Via DW:
William & Mary students, claiming to be affilaited with the Black Lives Matter movement, crashed an American Civil Liberties Union campus event this week and shouted down a speaker with chants of “Shame! Shame! Shame!”
At first, students organizing the ACLU event, titled, “Students and the First Amendment,” thought the protest was a demonstration of how to conduct campus civil disobedience. But imagine their surprise when it suddenly turned out that Black Lives Matterwas there to protest campus leftists.
The ACLU’s Claire Gastañaga, a William & Mary alum speaking at the event, said, immediately, “Good, I like this,” as protesters streamed into the auditorium. “I’m going to talk to you about knowing your rights, and protests and demonstrations, which this illustrates very well. Then I’m going to respond to questions from the moderators, and then questions from the audience.”
Unfortunately, the BLM students weren’t interested in simply providing living examples for Gastañaga’s speech. According to the William & Mary event live-stream, those were the last words anyone got out before the protesters began chanting loudly in an attempt to drown out the speakers.