take for granted. and as always thank you for being with us. hope you will join us. we will always be fair and balanced. we are not the destroy-trump media. set your dvr, have a great nigh night. ♪ >> laura: thanks for joining us this memorial day. i'm laura ingraham. welcome to the special edition of "the ingraham angle." tonight we are going to look at our best of our defending the first segments were we expose the enemies of the first amendment, free expression and free thought. we will show you an outrageous example of a california high school teacher suspended for merely questioning whether students could protest abortion just as they had protested gun control. ben shapiro tells us how the left tries to shut him down on campus with everything from threats and safety to calling him a terrorist. and then michelle malkin exposes the dark forces in the big bank rolls behind the efforts to

silence conservatives. brett bozell will reveal the high-tech techniques that silicon valley uses to make conservative thought just disappear altogether from the internet. and professors from across the country will tell us how universities force them to toe the pc line to restrict students from thinking for themselves. we begin with my take on bullies on the left him into silence conservatives. when we kicked off the series back in early april. >> nearly 30 years ago dinesh desousa wrote a book called a liberal education. it described in lurid detail how on college campuses the american left had gone from championing free speech to stifling it. conservatism under reagan had become a potent force of liberating optimistic and patriotic alternatives to the malaise and pessimism of the

1970s. the faculty in the administration of campuses became dominated by liberals who were desperate to turn young minds away from reaganism in the america he represented. which these activists maintain, let's face it, as inherently racist and sexist because it's founders were privileged white men. conservative challenging the liberal orthodoxy on campus or suited, maligned and they were maligned by students and professors alike. they were subject to disciplinary action and even physically threatened. the ultimate goal was to bully them into silence. of course that effort failed. conservatives probably now see how naive it was to believe that this squelching of free speech would end once they left campus. instead, the left's propaganda shaped a new generation of young adults who then parroted all that malarkey about the

patriarchy and then they came up with their own new phrases like micro aggressions and safe spaces and white privilege. today, left-wing activists use these terms as bludgeons to intimidate those who disagree with them from entering the dialogue at all. so for all their talk of inclusion, the left doesn't invite more voices to enter the public discussion. instead they drive out any dissenting voice and the police the dogma of their own creation. generations later the chilling effect on free speech in the workplace, in the media, and in society at large is palpable. we all feel it in the situation may be worsening. a brookings institution survey was released last fall of college students attitudes towards free speech on campus was really depressing. the researchers asked do you agree with shouting down a controversial speaker who comes

to campus? 51% of respondents said yes. and democrats are far more likely than republicans to agree with stifling free speech on campus. 62-38%. by the way, women or were more likely than men to believe that so-called hate speech is not constitutionally protected. the numbers were 49 to 38%. if by the way, other data indicates that hostility to free expression is starting even earlier than college. meaning these kids are picking it up either at home or in high school, junior high or in both places. this too is super disheartening. it is critical that all of us regardless of where we fall on the ideological spectrum recognize the perilous road that we are on. think about it. if 40-50% of the country feels

like their right to free expression is less worthy of protection than that of any garden-variety leftist, where does that leave our first amendment? as a shell of its former self is the answer. there is a contraction of free speech all around us. and few seem to even notice. many of you have become accustomed to editing yourself, let's face it. expressing views that just five or ten years ago were considered mainstream can now get you fired. it can cause you to lose a promotion or you could be branded a hater or yes, you could get boycotted. sadly, with people like christopher hitchens and hentoff gone there are only a handful of true liberals left on the scene to defend the vigorous exchange of ideas. >> i have been the victim of a boycott. i lost a job once. it is wrong.

it is the modern way of cutting off free speech. >> laura: on the goalpost, by the way are forever moving. every day more issues are taken off the table altogether and may no longer be debated at all. so in other words if you are against affirmative action you are a racist. and if you where they make america great again hat to a gun-control rally and get beaten up, don't expect a lot of sympathy from the attendees. and if you praise the military skill of robert e. lee you are liable to be branded a defender of slavery in "the new york times" ." remember what happened during the campaign when some left wing nut cases in san jose got their hands on a firm supporter? this is the intolerant left in action. whether it's striking voices from social media or driving certain viewpoints from the airwaves, beating people up,

organizing boycotts for perceived unforgivable offenses or preventing speakers from being heard on a college campus, it's all coming from the same place, a desperate desire to stop debate by branding your opponents unacceptable and driving him or her from the public square. in just the past week while i was on my easter break we saw more examples of the totalitarian agenda and action. popular black conservatives diamond and silk noticed that there facebook fans weren't receiving notifications of the new content that they were posting. for months they backed facebook for answers. while, on thursday facebook officially informed them "the policy team has come to the conclusion that your content and your brand has been determined unsafe to the community. "while they say they were never informed about how their videos

or brand were unsafe or the community or even what the community is, but their fans are still not receiving notifications and facebook says there is no appeal. it feels like we are all, again in college. that the speech police demands that you change your focus, change your tone, change the subject or else. then there was conservative writer kevin williamson, formally a never-trumper at national review. that all changed last wednesday when the media matters dug up an old podcast work williams described an abortion as homicide and he suggested that it should be treated like any other crime up to and including hanging. that's pretty rough stuff, but so is abortion. the atlantic editor jeffrey goldberg announced that they

were parting ways with williamson because "the language used in the podcast was callous and violent. this runs contrary to the atlantic's tradition of respectable, well reasoned debate and to the values of our workplace. of course millions of americans believe that abortion itself is callous and violent, most obviously to the innocent life it destroys. nevertheless, another nonliberal voice was snuffed out at yet another esteemed publication. my friends, something alarming is taking place. the free speech clause of our constitution doesn't just apply to speech that the elite deem acceptable. it exists to support speech that is by its nature offensive. offensive to people in power, offensive at times to lawmakers. offensive to facebook and even offensive to the cool crowd that

thinks abortion is just a sacred right and that trump himself is a dangerous dictator. we indeed are reaching a crisis point. cultural walls are now being erected to conscript and still free speech in america. but we cannot let this continue. at the end of tonight's show, i'm going to be announcing my response to this dangerous epidemic and what this show will do in the coming weeks to expose the perpetrators, their tactics, their major players and their funders. their efforts are stalinist, pure and simple. their objective is a total transformation of american society not through rational discourse and open debate, but through personal demonization and silencing. true liberals and conservatives should defend the freedom of speech anywhere and everywhere

because the tables can turn very quickly. today it's conservatives being targeted, but tomorrow it could be left of center voices as wel well. i say let the debate continue. what the speech czars don't seem to appreciate is that there are as many if not more of us than there are of them. and we will never relent and we will never give in. never. and that's the "angle" ." >> laura: here with my interview with a california high school teacher who was placed on leave for having the gall to ask whether students could protest abortion in the same manner that they had protested gun-control. check this out. last month rock one high school in california placed history teacher julia on paid administrative leave after she

had the gall to question whether the school would let its students walk out to do what? to protest abortion in the same way it did to promote gun control. now one of her students is putting her question to the task by organizing a pro-life walkout set for 10:00 a.m. local time tomorrow. joining us now for more is juliann herself. this is good because this is like -- you are a hero of the first amendment in my view because the students and all the organizations who organize and they did it really well, the march for our lives and the various walkouts that have occurred over the last month or so, they got huge participation. they got huge media coverage and most of it was overwhelmingly positive and glowing. what have you found with your effort at your school? >> well, basically the only

large entity that i know of that has taken up this pro-life walkout because it is tony perkins of the family research council. i was thinking, into your point there that there perhaps would be other, maybe a clint eastwood or a brave movie star from hollywood because they had george clooney funding the gun protest walkout. i was hoping maybe for a few other people to join, but it's all about grassroots and what we are feeling, the pulse of the nation right now particularly among young people is extremely exciting. >> laura: i think it's interesting that we are talking about saving lives, which we all want to do. we all want to have sensible regulations that don't run afoul of the constitution and in this case the dominant culture does not promote the cause of life. in fact they call the cause of life antiabortion rights

advocates. they don't refer to pro-life on cbs or msnbc. i know because i used to work at both places. they say you are anti-something. but i'm finding students across the united states and you see this at the march for life every year are much more open to the idea of this really is -- this is a human being. why are we doing this to the new generation of americans? we are just snuffing them out a million at a time every year, another million whether it by chemical abortion or by surgical abortion. and yet the media -- they act like this viewpoint, this pro-life viewpoint doesn't even exist. >> correct. that's precisely why my very brave student brendan gillespie chose to stage this as a pro-life walkout. not antiabortion. we are for all life. we are for all students who have lost life by guns on campuses

but this is a pro-life, every life matters. you are precisely right. i forgot her name right now but the outgoing president of planned parenthood who said that her goal -- >> laura: cecil richards. >> corporation book. her goal was to destigmatize abortion in the united states and i'm sorry, but that has not taken place. two recent articles that i just read gave very specific statistics that the majority of americans and the majority of women are pro-life, not for abortion. >> laura: thanks so much. we will be following what happens with this brave bush to advance life in a different type of walkout. up next, ben shapiro, who has triggered leftists into hysterical friends ate primarily calling for free speech on campus. he explains the real reason the left is so terrified of free speech.

>> laura: radio talk show host and daily wire editor in chief ben shapiro has emerged as one of the top defenders of free speech, particularly on campus. in a series of speeches over the last few years shapiro has debunked safe its ohmic safe spaces, micro aggressions and the quest for multiculturalism and diversity and not without risks to his own personal safet safety. >> and there it is. guess what? you know what mike they are not going stop us.

>> as i attempt to enter that hall right there or if i attempt to ask a question or engage in free speech you will have me arrested. >> yes, sir, . >> laura: the tolerant one joining us now, ben shapiro himself. what we thought of immediately when we launched a series. you don't look too threatening. you're kind of a guy with some interesting ideas and thought-provoking conversations and you freak them all out. you've got the head gear on. they've got the riot police out. this is -- it is funny because it's so pathetic, but it's also very dangerous because you do have the guts to go on college campuses, but there are a lot of conservatives i know who are invited to speak. you know what they say? i have better things to do with my time. in a way you can't blame them,

but that is itself chilling free speech. >> no question. so many universities are using to shut down free speech on college campuses by saying the left is going to get violet is pretty astonishing. i don't blame conservatives who want to take their life in their hands by going on some of these -- i don't want to pretend like it's happening at every campus. it is happening to a lot of conservatives. i'm talking to people who range from jordan peterson to jason riley to heather macdonald, charles murray. there are a lot of people being really rioted against, in some cases on campus and the administration has in some cases really not done enough to prevent that from happening and when they do attempt to stop the riots from happening that, the way they typically do it is by bringing a lot of cops onto campus and then by suggesting that we have to restrict the number of people who can actually attend the lectures. they end up restricting free speech when they are attempting to protect it in some cases. >> laura: irony, the free speech movement, it all started at berkeley in berkeley's

ground zero of the anti-free speech movement in the united states today. the last couple of days, an interesting development that fits with our series at penn state. the penn state student power network along with other students and community members gathered outside old main on monday to present a list of demands to the president. i love it when they have a list of demands. these demands included denouncing and defunding hate groups on campus. i think to myself oh, my god, are they on campus? who was on campus? u.s. communist party? no. it's a groups with anti-immigrant rhetoric. i guess that's someone who is in favor of enforcing the border. what does that mean? >> everything has been deemed hate speech on campus, up to and including there was a point during the election cycle where people were barred from writing his name because it made people feel bad that some people actually supported him as a candidate. i can only imagine the anti-immigrant rhetoric would be

things like let's enforce our border or let's deport some of these immigrants. but that's not a shock. again, penn state is one of the campuses i visited and there was a near riot when i was at penn state. i'm sure that some of the people who were protesting against the conservatives on campus, it was some conservative groups they were protesting are the same people who a couple of years ago nearly try to break through the doors where i was speaking to disrupt the lecture that i was getting. what's amazing about all of this is that it is perfectly easy to have a nice event where people come and listen to me or listen to any of the other people i mentioned at all of us are willing to have q&a, all of us are willing to have discussions. we had one last night over at pepperdine where a lot of the student groups who were on the left, i'm talking about the same sort of minority groups decided that instead of boycotting they would show up and ask questions and we had a perfectly nice conversation but unfortunately there is a part of the left as distinguished from i think liberals at large. there's a big part of the left and it's growing that says that it is incumbent to protect the campus from ideas that are dissenting and everyone who dissents must be thrown off. >> laura: and the reason that they want to stifle speech is

because your speech actually grows conservatism. it spreads the ideology and it draws people in. they have no ideas. they are out of ideas. they are out of solutions. they are into demonization. you go to college campuses. you could be going to corporations and speaking, but you go to college campuses and i think the groups that are trying to make your life miserable or going after charlie kirk and turning point usa, go through the list of who is behind this effort to really tamp down on free speech. we know some of the big funded groups by george soros. but go through that briefly for us. >> there's certainly a lot of student groups that coordinate that are associated with the women's march or very much associated with this movement. a lot of the groups that were originally associated with black lives matter were very active in his campus movement. antifa was the far edge wing.

but the generalized attempt to shut down speeches by pressuring administrations, that's a lot of student groups that have been on campus since the time that i was on college campuses as a student myself and they continue to push for the idea these campuses should be conservative free and should be complete safe spaces for people on the left. not only because they think conservatives are going to convince a lot of people but also because they think conservatives are evil. they really think that people like me are there to do them harm. and when i show up and in terms out that i'm a relatively nonthreatening character and i never really beat anybody up in my life for several reasons that you can imagine, that's the impact. >> laura: again, you don't look too threatening but ideas are threatening to these people. thanks so much. >> laura: in my part two he will reveal the left's latest tactic to shut him up accusing him of, wait for it, terrorism. i kid you not, stay right there.

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>> laura: this is a campaign now to blame ben shapiro for inciting a deadly terror attack on a canadian mosque last year? we welcome back to the "angle" ben shapiro, editor in chief of the daily wire. he looks so unassuming. i don't know what do you weigh, 150 pounds? >> about a hundred 55. i bulking up. >> laura: you don't look all that intimidating. the right stuff and you go on tv. but explain how you are allegedly uninspiring this horrible attack on a mosque. you make comments about islamic terror in the past and it was all stitched together. >> there's this evil piece of human crap who shot up a mosque and his evil piece of human crap had seen some of my tweets. he seen tweets from bret baier, he's seen tweets from a bunch of different people.

i guess my account was the one he had viewed the most. i have 1.4 million twitter followers so i guess the idea from the left is if somebody vetoes enough of my tweets they will inevitably become a terrorist. it's usually weird -- none of this is real. in bernie sanders, bernie sanders supporters shot of a congressional baseball game people did not say this is bernie sanders' fault. >> laura: we played fair. we played fair and they don't care about those rules. so what their goal is and this is why we bring you on for the series, their goal is to intimidate other conservatives using you as an abject lesson. we will use you as an example. don't speak out on these issues because if you do -- it doesn't matter if it's in canada or australia or anywhere else, we are going to brand you a hater. we are going to try and stop your livelihood, stop you from making money, stop you from getting speeches. that's what this is about, is it not?

it's this malcontent in canada kicking up a fuss. we've seen it with the seven poverty law center with their obscene list of islamic folks or whatever. i think i'm on that list. ridiculous. they do it to shut down speech. >> no question. if you're going to talk about them, by their same logic they are responsible for the attack on the family research council a few years ago since the guy was a follower of the splc and use their apparently their map of hate groups as a target. all of this is really dangerous and all of it is leading to an attempt in the united states by people on the far left to imitate what we've seen in places like britain, places like canada to actually shutdown dissenting points of view if they do not meet with the politically correct standards of the left. the fact that i have tweeted out about the evils of radical islam and i cut a video talk about the percentages of muslims worldwide who may believe radical things. this apparently was enough to blame me for a terrorist attack that has nothing to do with me,

that i have obviously denounced, that was as i say was committed by an evil piece of human debris. all of this is nonsense generated by the left specifically in order to shut down free speech. that's their goal. >> laura: kanye west has become a very interesting figure on the cultural scene, no doubt. expressing his love for many people, but among them most controversially is donald trump. and now he's gotten attacked by everybody's, comments he made about slavery being a choice, which is obviously not what he meant. but now it turns out that we are seeing perhaps connected and increase and support among african-americans, especially african-american men. double support to i guess the figure is now it's up to 22%. it was 11% approval. now it's 22%. where the overall approval is also increasing. i believe 16% from 8%. that's interesting. is it just a coincidence here with kanye west?

>> it's impossible to tell obviously whether it's a coincidence in the short period of time. but i will say this, what he did by basically saying think for yourself, if that's a threat to the left, it demonstrates how the left has steve's identity politics to shut down any real debate. i don't think that kanye west ought to be nominated for head of the heritage foundation. i don't think he spending is off hours reading frederick hayek. but what he did say here which is very simple is listen, i'm not just a black eye and i'm not just a hollywood celebrity. i'm an individual with my own thoughts and feelings and i get to formulate my own logic i also get to figure out what i believe and if everybody else thought like this then perhaps we ought to be able to have these conversations that we haven't been able to have so far. good for kanye west for at least beginning the conversation. on some dumb stunned that it's kanye to it but he gets all the credit. it's a pretty amazing stand that he's taking at a time when he doesn't have to take it. >> laura: i just think is trying to say to people you don't have to be imprisoned by our past as hard as it was, as abusive and unfair and unjust as it was, it doesn't have to define your future. a lot of philosophers have said

that over the centuries and frankly over the millennia. you can create your own identity. hillary clinton was out there yesterday or the day before yesterday, a q&a about socialism, america, whatever, let's watch. >> you may be the only presidential candidate since world war ii that actually had to stand up and say i am a capitalist. and you did. did it hurt you? >> probably. it's hard to know, but if you are in the iowa caucuses and 41% of democrats are socialist or self-described socialist dime asked are you a capitalist and i say yes but with appropriate regulation and appropriate accountability, that probably gets lost in the oh, my gosh, she's a capitalist. >> laura: like one sentence. >> she actually told the truth. good for hillary. she finally stumbled across something that is true and she said it. democrats are tending towards socialism.

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>> laura: you all know michelle malkin is a fierce champion of free speech, particularly online where she is a pioneering entrepreneur. tonight she's going to shed light on the dark forces behind organized efforts to silence conservatives. michelle malkin, welcome back to the "angle." great to see you. i think it's so important for the people watching fox tonight to see and understand what this all is really all about and i want to start with george soros. george soros has funded left-wing groups as you pointed

out, the center for american progress. i think we have a graphic, can we see it please? the color of change. people for the american way, media matters action network connected with media matters. here we have all those organizations. telus, michelle, which are the worst offenders and enemies of free thought and free expressio expression? >> media matters has been at the forefront of the speech squelch her's are highly organized, incredibly disciplined and obviously deeply funded. not only by george soros, but a number of left-wing foundations. and i think it's really important to note that so many of these outfits are tax exempt, that they enjoy so much are just as a result of irs laws and that under democratic administration's the definition of 5o1c3s and fours have been stretched so these blatantly partisan political organizations

have passed themselves a somehow educational or social welfare groups. so you have media matters that has gone after every prominent conservative effective voice in the public square and they will use any pretext. these people do this for a full-time living. and as a result it is undeniable and you and i have fought in this arena for so many years now and talk radio, on broadcast and yes on social media where it has been so important for independent conservative voices to get their messages out. and we know that the encroachment of these sensors and the bullies in the public square has left an undeniable cloud over the first amendment and free expression. >> laura: michelle, people will say this is all -- this is all the free marketplace of ideas and everyone else -- if they want to complain about

someone that says something they do that and that's part of the democratic process too. each side has their own opinions and one side wants to -- whatever they are doing, these corporations that just wilt. they get 100 emails from some left-wing activists and they wilt. meanwhile millions of conservatives, are you kidding me? it makes no sense. >> and in some cases the suppose it backlash that elicits this response from corporations that just don't want any bad publicity sometimes constitutes a couple of tweets. and so then you have this media matters and color of changes of the world that exploit their social justice status. they have an absolute immunity shield to go after conservatives for expressing mainstream thought and opinion. that's what people need to know about the agenda. the agenda of these left-wing character assassins is to marginalize mainstream thought.

>> laura: the media research center released a devastating report today documenting the censorship of conservative speech by silicon valley's tolerant tech giants. among the findings, claims from former employees that facebook hides conservative content from the trending section. backed up by a detailed study. google, youtube and twitter partner with leftist groups like the southern poverty law center that hate conservatives. and check this out. of the 25 members on the panel that guides twitters policies 12 are liberals and is only one conservative. i can't believe there is one. shocking, but not surprising, is it? for more details we are joined by brent bozell, founder of the very important, indispensable media research center. the first of all, it's great to have you. first appearance on the show. how have you been? tell us what you found. >> it's a massive study done by my colleagues.

it's 50 pages documenting what conservatives have been suggesting has been happening. this is -- it sounds hyperbolic, but this is true. this is the emerging of the greatest censorship of free speech worldwide in the history of man. let me explain this. the left is on a jihad against conservative thought. it's happening everywhere. everywhere they are suppressing conservative thought. now they are going to the social media giants. the social media giants have audiences in the billions and what we have shown in this massive report is whether it's facebook or twitter or google or youtube, they are all employing different tactics. >> laura: lets go through some of them. we have a full screen on this. censorship of conservative speech. here are some examples. google search aids democrats and

studies found that 2016 campaign searches were biased in favor of hillary clinton. youtube shutting down conservative channels by mistake by removing videos that promote right-wing political views and tech companies facebook and google are relying on anti-conservative fact-checkers like snopes and wikipedia. why is wikipedia, for our viewers out there, why is that a left-wing? >> if you look at so many things wikipedia does, it puts a liberal spin against conservatives on a regular basis. >> laura: we always have to edit my page, i know that. i stopped looking. >> they just insert, insert, insert nasty stuff about you. they have been partnering -- youtube has been partnering with them to unmask conservatives enter go against conservative contact and to uncover what they're doing. >> laura: you say that war is being declared on the conservative movement and conservatives are losing badly. if the right is silenced,

billions of people will be cut off from conservative ideals. it goes on but we will just stop it there. that's really true, isn't it? even though the soviets suppressed speech, china suppresses speech, we are talking about in effect a global effort to suppress or silence conservatives. you have seen the nonsense that has happened to shows like mine. they try to deal with russia and others. they don't want to debate because they are losing on the substance, are they not? they want to silence. but with the power of high tech, what can we, the consumers of information and others watching, what can they do? >> the first thing you have to do is recognize what is going on right now. jack dorsey is the ceo of twitter. he put this in the right perspective. just recently he was promoted. he promoted an article that called for the destruction of the conservative movement, promoted it. >> laura: he retweeted it. >> it's not just happening in the united states. it's all over the world. conservatives have to recognize

this and conservatives have to start looking for new homes. >> laura: our own platform and are groups that hold them accountable? >> if they leave, the business model for the social media giants collapses. >> laura: businesses, high tech. >> your audience is up 20% ever since they went after you. >> laura: always a glass half-full here on "the ingraham angle." thank you. we are going to link this up on my facebook page. everybody needs to read it and support the efforts that you are doing. i don't know what we would do without the media research center. thank you so much. still to come, the tactics universities across the country used to suppress free speech and the plight of professors caught in the pc machine.

>> laura: the latest target of campus censorship and the epidemic there is a renowned history professor bert folsom of hillsdale college. an approval committee at davidson college in north carolina tried to ban him from delivering a lecture on campus. the committee's excuse? they claimed the lecture would not be academic enough. let's bring in a spokesman for the group that invited the professor to speak. we have other stories to get to as well. they ultimately allowed him to speak on campus, but not at that particular venue, which is bigger and they put him off to the side somewhere and they said you can speak over here, the unwashed professor. what's going on? >> that's exactly right. i don't think it's any secret to you or your viewers that there's a real crisis and ideological diversity on college campuses. what surprises us is the excuses liberal administrators used in order to shut the speakers down. here we have davidson college telling us that bert folsom, who at one point had the number one best-selling history book in the country is not academic enough to speak on the main part of

their campus it's ridiculous. >> laura: it's a fraud. another hilarious story. campus reform went out and they decided to interview students about sending troops to the border and immigration and so forth. let's watch. >> and president obama dated i felt that there was i supposed different coverage as to what the intentions were. >> where do you draw the line on who can be here or not? >> at a border i think most people would say. >> laura: the students didn't know that president obama had actually sent troops to the border so they are like well, when he did it. what is your take on the lack of just basic understanding of whether it's the constitution or just recent american history. it is a constant demonization of trump or the propaganda machine on college campuses for like 50 grand a year. >> that's the real tragic part. these are people who are going to school allegedly to get an education and become well-rounded and instead they

are not learning critical thinking skills, they are not learning how to defend their ideas, they are just being fed the leftist ideology. what you see here is the students who don't know why they may support or oppose this policy. all they know is if trump supports it must be bad where if you had asked it the other way around, if obama had supported it they would say it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. >> laura: what you didn't show in this video as before, they didn't know that obama sent the trips to the border. they kind of like had to back into that. when he did it it was necessary. it's classic. this is classic uninformed, god bless them, uninformed college students who learn it for the first time from some radical professor radical history professor. then at gw university right nearby where we are, the democrat, some of the college democrats are not participating in some type of bipartisan discussion summit last week. they don't even want to be bipartisan. >> it looks like basically the leftists are showing their true colors. they don't want to dialogue. they don't want to free in

exchange open ideas. the left ideas will fall off. what you see here is basically their goal is to allow a situation only where leftist ideas are heard because they know conservative policies and solutions offered, those will be the pick. >> laura: they are petrified of a debate. i've never seen anything like it. the pusillanimous. they are petrified and by the way they said some members have hesitations about participating in events with conservative organizations. petrified. that's all i will say. great to see you, thanks for the update. >> laura: conservative speech is under assault on one of the starkest examples is that marquette university. a private catholic school in milwaukee. political science professor john mcadams was suspended and has been since 2014 when he chastised a graduate instructor named cheryl. why? she apparently told a student that she would not tolerate dissent on the topic of same-sex marriage during her class on ethics.

marquette says it has the legal right to suspend mcadams because he opened her up to threats by criticizing her by name. the case is now headed to wisconsin supreme court. joining us now to explain further this profession mcadams himself. professor, you have taught for 30 years at marquette and it's a catholic institution and yet this instructor berated a student who said basically not all of us agree on the review on same-sex marriage. tell us >> that's right. it seemed ironic because marquette claims to be a catholic institution but i think a lot of your viewers know that a lot of institutions claim to be catholic and fundamentally they are secular and politically correct. >> laura: didn't they demand that you prostrate yourself basically and apologize for this supposed wrongdoing in your blog post where you said we are basically hardly university if this is what we're like, if we don't tolerate any dissent and

you refused, is that right, to apologize? >> that's correct. they told me that they would reinstate me if i apologized and promised to conform to marquette's supposed guiding values and promised to do that. of course i think i'm more loyal to marquette's guiding values than the administration of marquette university, but of course this is stalinist stuff. are not going to apologize. >> laura: 130 years have passed. in less our research is wrong not a single professor has lost tenure. 130 years. i guess you are a big threat, professor because you actually decided to post a blog. >> it is ironic. professors -- it had to be for something like stealing money from research funds or raping a student.

it had to be something like that. no professor than anyone knows about has ever been fired or even suspended for a blog post. >> laura: do you feel bad about i guess in hurting the feelings of this particular student instructor? i guess she got a deal on her tuition. >> i think it's unfortunate that she got some really nasty emails, although she got no threats. marquette has claimed she got threats but she admitted that one of her own blog post that she had gotten no threats. so that wasn't good. on the other hand, anybody who's misconduct is revealed by a journalist might get some unkind responses. >> laura: that's for sure. i've been the receiving end of that. we are going to follow your case. i know the argument is coming up in just about ten days or so and thank you so much for giving us your perspective on this fight at marquette. tonight we talk to former syracuse professor stuart card

who says he was fired for defending free speech on campus. card says he was fired after he privately disagreed with the school's expulsion of students for their crude skits at a fraternity row. let's find out exactly what happened from the professor himself. stuart card, welcome to the "angle." professor, my producer watched the video, the fraternity radio. i guess it was an internal video, it wasn't posted on social media and it was gross. i don't know why people make these videos. it was gross and its profane and so forth. they say it was satire. actually ridiculing a conservative who apparently was a bad person. you wrote a statement, an email to the administration and use of the following. i strongly believe that reinforcing the current myth that individuals are likely to be damaged by exposure to expressions that they find offensive and thus require pampering is a disservice to our students in our profession.

i know my view on this is out of sync with current opinion but i was tough and as a youth, not just by emotional bullying, but by physical beatings by much older and larger students. i survived, i got stronger. you are separated from the university for that? >> i have to say this isn't really about syracuse university. i love syracuse university and the good people there who are doing what they assume and feel is right. this is really about ideas, not specific institutions or individuals. it's about the ideas of free speech and reason versus some dangerous and rational myths that have swept the campuses around the country. i don't know whether i was really fired or quit. we might say that the university and i reached a mutual agreement that the beliefs and values of the university are no longer the beliefs and values -- go >> laura: hold on. you don't know if -- that's cute. you don't know if you quit or

you were fired. was there some kind of release they made you sign? >> no. >> laura: they didn't. >> when i sent that email i concluded it with if my position on this is so objectionable as to render me disqualified from further service to our students, then put me on the list as don't use anymore and the email came back yes indeed. >> laura: you were fired. don't be obtuse. you were fired because you wrote that email saying i'm concerned that we are coddling students, coddling them and trying to protect them from all these offensive ideas is not going to help anyone. it's not going to advance the cause of learning and that was the thing that they ultimately said you are right, we don't want someone like you at our university and i know you are protective of syracuse. that's nice. but the atmosphere on college campuses today on a scale of 1-10, 1 being the most pro-free speech and ten being the least, where do you rate it?

>> i will give it an eight but i'm shooting from the hip because i hadn't thought about that number before. another one of these myths that i'm talking about is the myth that is really prevalent not just on the asu campus but on other campuses that i've been to that all educated and intelligent good people think pretty much the same on certain key issues for the correct answer is obvious. >> laura: we will be right back with some final thoughts.

>> laura: as you've seen in the last hour free speech, especially conservative free speech is under assault on multiple fronts. here on "the ingraham angle" you can always count on us to expose and counter the true villains of free expression and free thought no matter how powerful they may seem. that's it for us tonight. please enjoy what's left of your memorial day holiday but remember please always fly your flag, honor the memories of

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