The original post claimed this, with no substantiation:
> University lecturers have been protested or cancelled for decades for reasons unrelated to their topic ... Back in the day it was "edgy" to protest or cancel a speaker due to their support of the Vietnam war.
I don't think I'm obligated to do anything before asking OP for evidence, but sure, I'll show my work, so to speak.
I've been following free speech issues for about thirty years, which a close interest in academia. Obviously, that doesn't overlap with the period under discussion (I'm too young), but in the course of reading deeply about the issue, I've come across a lot of history covering the 60s and 70s (in the US & Europe, in particular). So I was surprised to learn that cancelations I'd never heard of were common.
It's not easy to figure out the search terms for this - it's not like looking for the ten most popular NPM packages. So I tried searching for a few things.
I tweaked the terms - "1960s"/"1970s" seemed to produce slightly more relevant content, but no examples. Substituting "lecture" for "speaker" and "university" for "campus" didn't improve things either. I dug a couple pages deep in the results and clicked on a few seemingly relevant links, but was always disappointed.
I thought that maybe the ACLU's "Speech on Campus" page might reference an episode, but no. [1] I thought, perhaps FIRE has something on this, but they appear to be more concerned with recent history.
If these events were "extremely googable", I'd expect to have seen something promising by that point, but it wasn't happening. After your second response I thought "Oh, maybe krainboltgreene said googlable but meant duckduckgo or bing", so I tried those, and guess what?
Nothing.
I've got huge gaps in my knowledge. It's possible that OP is right and this is neither new nor different. But I'm not going to take their word for it, and it's ridiculous to expect me or anyone else to spend more than ten minutes searching for (even just) a lead on something that might not even exist, particularly given the confounding ambiguity of the possible search terms and the lack of indexed web resources for the historical era in question.
> University lecturers have been protested or cancelled for decades for reasons unrelated to their topic ... Back in the day it was "edgy" to protest or cancel a speaker due to their support of the Vietnam war.
I don't think I'm obligated to do anything before asking OP for evidence, but sure, I'll show my work, so to speak.
I've been following free speech issues for about thirty years, which a close interest in academia. Obviously, that doesn't overlap with the period under discussion (I'm too young), but in the course of reading deeply about the issue, I've come across a lot of history covering the 60s and 70s (in the US & Europe, in particular). So I was surprised to learn that cancelations I'd never heard of were common.
It's not easy to figure out the search terms for this - it's not like looking for the ten most popular NPM packages. So I tried searching for a few things.
"campus speaker canceled 60s" "campus speaker canceled 70s"
I tweaked the terms - "1960s"/"1970s" seemed to produce slightly more relevant content, but no examples. Substituting "lecture" for "speaker" and "university" for "campus" didn't improve things either. I dug a couple pages deep in the results and clicked on a few seemingly relevant links, but was always disappointed.
I thought that maybe the ACLU's "Speech on Campus" page might reference an episode, but no. [1] I thought, perhaps FIRE has something on this, but they appear to be more concerned with recent history.
If these events were "extremely googable", I'd expect to have seen something promising by that point, but it wasn't happening. After your second response I thought "Oh, maybe krainboltgreene said googlable but meant duckduckgo or bing", so I tried those, and guess what?
Nothing.
I've got huge gaps in my knowledge. It's possible that OP is right and this is neither new nor different. But I'm not going to take their word for it, and it's ridiculous to expect me or anyone else to spend more than ten minutes searching for (even just) a lead on something that might not even exist, particularly given the confounding ambiguity of the possible search terms and the lack of indexed web resources for the historical era in question.
[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/speech-campus