him a supremacist. murray returned after several people were ejected by the. at a nearby drexel university, two days ago he urged the discussed condition of murray s speech. he joins us tonight from mexico city. thank you for coming on. i wonder if you see something inconsistent with someone who teaches at a university dedicated to the idea of the open exchange of ideas, calling for ideas he disagree with to shut be shut down. universities are actually spaces for rational ideas, based in fact and evidence. charles murray has never based his arguments and evidence or fact. he has never passed any kind of progress academic examination of those ideas. he does not publish with academic presses. he s had his research paid for by right wing think tanks. they paid for him to write books like the bell curve.
published the bell curve, it tied the iq of americans to how successful they will be and also published iq averages of americans according to ethnicity and just to go through those that were published, in first place certain sects of jews, east asian americans, white americans such as charles murray himself and in fourth place, african-americans. of course, this drew a lot of controversy at the time and has for years now. will the book of scientific and murray said that the findings of it are largely supported by the american psychological association. he has been branded as a racist by number of people on the left. and he has been protested quite a bit in a very polarized time right now, he has been protested just in the last few weeks of in middlebury college where the protest turned violent and a professor that was with mr. murray ended up in the
murray returned after several people were ejected by the. at a nearby drexel university,er two days ago he urged the disruption of murray s speech. he joins us tonight from mexico city. thank you for coming on. i wonder if you see something inconsistent with someone who teaches at a university dedicated to the idea of the open exchange of ideas, calling for ideas he disagree with to be shut down. we should be clear that universitiesit are actually spas for rational ideas, for arguments based in fact andnd evidence. charles murray has never based his arguments and evidence or fact. he has never passed any kind of rigorous academic examination of those ideas. he does not publish with academic presses. he s had his research paid for by right wing think tanks. they paid for him to write books like the bell curve. they paid for those books to be published and then they actually paid for journalist to read and
mr. murray, we asked what they thought of the lecture and what they thought about such violence and hatred towards this man. i understand why people are protesting and i understand the heights of sensitivities but at the same time, i understand him trying to further the knowledge of his science. 95% left liberal think free speech is the enemy of normalcy at this point. it has to be tamped down. a few of the protesters had to be escorted out. he was able to finish the speech. he clarified the findings of his from his book the bell curve to a young african-american student who went up to protest him. i m not sure that he won her over but he certainly did make an impression on her and really kind of softened the moon in the room. we will send it back tori you. tucker: thank you, rob. i m sure he was not there to talk about the bell curve but no one paid attention to that. russia s role in the 2016 t
the impact that he thinks that had. don t you think, richard, that would ve been a pretty valuable conversation. in fact, the young man who was with the american enterprise club for middlebury and very eloquently at the beginning of this said, look, we have meetings every week, get together with people who disagree on politics and we hear each other out. what a wasted opportunity of these gave themselves that nigh night. well, here s the thing. like i said. i don t think the students are reacting to that book, and it s a stretch to call it neofascist. i haven t seen any evidence of this device are being harmed. if she was harmed, that s awful. she is sent to the hospital. wait a minute. the truth of the matter is they have a right to protest, and that process should be protected just like mr. murray s speech should be protected. but wait a minute! let me finish. what i think you have in the situation is this guy released a book that i would argue is vile, the bell curve, which