Here are the closing paragraphs of yesterday’s NBC News article, “Columbia University protesters resume demonstrations after mass arrests“:
Is this really a fair and objective summary of what happened at the Chemerinsky dinner? “Confronted a Muslim student,” with no further explanation, strongly implies that the student was confronted for being a Muslim, rather than that for trying to give a speech in the middle of a social occasion. I know of no evidence that Dean Chemerinsky or Professor Fisk (they are married) targeted the student for her religion, as opposed to her disruptive conduct.
If you want an analogy, imagine there was a controversy about the police arresting someone who happened to be Catholic for blocking an abortion clinic entrance, and the incident was characterized (with no mention of the person’s misconduct) as “Last week, Berkeley officials confronted a Catholic on a city sidewalk.” Would that be a fair…
