Left-Wing Student Protesters — Rebels Without A Clue

It's known that today's student protesters have of their country's history, (let alone - world history,) preferring ideological cliches to facts. But, as Michael Coren has discovered - they have no knowledge of their own movement.

Last week, I was invited by a student group at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., to speak on the issue of abortion.

What you think of the issue is up to you — we live in a free society where difference of opinion is respected. Or at least is supposed to be.

The organizers of the event were obliged to hire security guards after threats were made.

These were taken seriously as pro-life speakers have been shouted down, meetings broken up and people assaulted several times in recent years.

All that happened this time was a dozen people stood up holding posters, some reading that I was shameful. I could have told them that myself!

What was most apparent, however, was the contrast between the pro-life and the pro-abortion students. The former were attractive, bright-eyed, compassionate. The latter dull, angry, so lacking in humanity and, it has to be said, intelligence.

What surprised me was not opposition — these were, after all, publicly funded middle-class people with a lot of time on their hands — but their incredible ignorance.

They had not heard, for example, of Sinn Fein or the Irish Republican movement, not heard of pogroms, seemed to know nothing even of the left-wing world of which they claimed to be a part.

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No wonder it's common for those guys to resort to violence. If they can't even describe what they stand for, there's no way they could ever win in a civilized debate or at the ballot box. And they know it.