Arrogance and Double Standards

My last post was about UCLA, let's move north a little bit to Stanford.

Recently an invited Trump-appointed federal judge was shouted down by law students, who were supported by a member of the Stanford administration.  No, shouting down a speaker is not legitimate protest or an exercise of the First Amendment, and Stanford Law students should be old enough and smart enough to know better.  Their previous and subsequent behavior verifies that they don't know better:

The Stanford students who shouted down Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan last week have found something new to be outraged about. They don’t want their names or photos to appear in any news reports about the incident.

Isn’t it a little late for that...

The names and photos of these students should be made available to the public for future reference. You know, if one of them decides to run for office or gets nominated to sit on a bench someday.  link

Let's get to a few facts: 

Stanford Law School protesters faced criticism after heckling Trump-appointed U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan during an event on campus and for plastering the names and faces of campus Federalist Society members all over the school last week.

Now they are demanding their names be redacted from a Washington Free Beacon report covering the incident, arguing that keeping their names public could invite "abuse and harassment."

Aaron Sibarium, a reporter for the Free Beacon, said not so fast...

"The other thing too is that they didn't just shout down a sitting federal judge, they also posted the names and faces of every member of the Stanford Federalist Society, every board member who helped invite him," he said. "They posted those names and faces around the school in a concerted effort to shame their peers and pressure them out of hosting the event."

I'm reminded of what I quoted in a previous post about the Red Guards: 

Using students to pressure other students into “group-think” is right out of the Commie playbook.

Too many previously-respected institutions of higher learning are taking the respect it took them decades to earn and are flushing it down the drain in a few short years.  And I agree with the author at the first link above:  the students should pay a price for their unconscionable actions, later if not now.