On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) acknowledged that Choose Kyle Duncan was “a little bit of a fragile flower” in how he dealt with his speech at Stanford College being disrupted and will “push through” the disruption, however faculties must be a spot the place persons are allowed to come back and communicate.
Slotkin stated, “I represent a couple of universities now, including Michigan State University. It should be a place of free speech. It should be a place where all people, conservative, liberal are allowed to come and speak. I also have to say, as someone who is heckled all the time in public speeches, including this week when we were talking about gun safety on the steps of the Michigan Capitol and we had a Second Amendment group with bullhorns while you’re trying to speak, the speaker is being a little bit of a fragile flower here. Push through man, just keep going.”
Host Invoice Maher then reduce in to reply, “From what I saw, it was kind of impossible.”
Slotkin responded, “Okay, but — and the students, no one should ever be threatening violence, that’s never allowed, that’s not part of your First Amendment rights. But I don’t have a problem if someone comes and speaks and I don’t have a problem if people, in a civil and decent way, protest that speech.”
Maher then requested, “And you don’t have a problem if the officer of the university gets up there and defends the hecklers and not the speaker? Because that’s what she did. She defended the hecklers, not the speaker.”
Slotkin responded, “I don’t know the circumstances here, but –.”
Maher reduce in to say, “You just saw it, that’s exactly what you saw.”
Slotkin then acknowledged, “If the university invited this person or allowed this person to come and speak, then they’re hosting them.”
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