Penn State is about to host the Proud Boys founder, and its students are protesting
Posted on AllSides October 12th, 2022
From The Left
Penn State University says Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes spouts "hateful and discriminatory" rhetoric — but the school also says a student group has the right to bring McInnes to speak on campus this month, at an event paid for with thousands of dollars in student fees.
Students have launched a petition and plan to protest the Oct. 24 event, seeking to block McInnes and another controversial far-right figure, Alex Stein, from speaking in State College, Pa.
Free-speech guarantees, warns the Student Committee for Defense and Solidarity, should not entail...