The violent communists who now control many American universities will set buildings and cars on fire to prevent even one dissenting voice, whether it is Ann Coulter or just about anyone else.  Conservatives and libertarians were long ago blackballed from polite company in “higher” education, with few exceptions.  The ones who are there exist mostly in silence for fear of being exposed and harassed.  In contrast, as I once told one of my classes, the speakers that are brought to campus and paid huge honoraria are such that “each one is a bigger communist than the last.”  A recent example of the ideal campus speaker in the eyes of the radical leftists in academe is one Donna Hylton, who spoke at ritzy, $56,550/year Manhattanville College in New York City.

Hylton had spent some time in jail, so she was an honored guest at a social justice cupcake seminar on racism, white supremacy, bla, bla bla, etc., etc., etc.  She told the students that she was imprisoned because she was black, and her talk was apparently a string of stories about how awful her 27 years in prison were.

I’ve seen this a million times in my academic career.  The commie faculty invite someone in to tell sob stories that get the teenagers in the audience all emotional and worked up over some alleged “injustice,” and then the faculty work on them to turn them into mindless little robotic “protesters” and “activists” for more communism in American society.  Such was the purpose of this seminar at Manhattanville College.  (I recall a speaker at Loyola College years ago who had just returned from a trip to Cuba.  He was reportedly paid $15,000 to tell his tiny college audience that America should adopt the Cuban model of “education” that emphasizes political indoctrination and “activism” over traditional education.  Most of the academic world seems to have  taken his advice).

But at least one student there smelled a rat when she heard that the speaker had spent 27 years in prison — the same amount of time that Nelson Mandella was imprisoned.  So she looked the speaker up on the internet and discovered that Donna Hylton and six accomplices were convicted of kidnapping a 62-year-old real estate broker who they hoped to hold for ransom.  Things didn’t work out for them, so they sodomized him with a steel pole, squeezed his testicles with pliars, set him on fire, and tortured him to death.  One of the accomplices was asked at trial why they sodomized the man and he said “he was a homo anyway.”

When the young student asked Hylton why she was in prison she was quickly interrupted and chastised by a faculty member who shamed her for “embarrassing” their honored guest.

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