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TexasTowelie

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Sat Oct 21, 2017, 03:25 AM Oct 2017

'You're a racist,' Williams College students tell author Christina Hoff Sommers during talk on femin

'You're a racist,' Williams College students tell author Christina Hoff Sommers during talk on feminism

A "standard liberal" feminist author Williams College hosted this week ran afoul of some students in her audience, who ended up branding her "racist" and "white supremacist."

Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, shared her views on feminism and identity politics at the Western Massachusetts institution.

Some of the attendees, including several students in the gender and women's studies department, took issue with her talk.

Video was shot of the tense question and answer section featuring several students' profanity peppered rants, insults on the Brandeis University alum's scholarship and disruptive, derisive snickers.

Read more: http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/10/liberal_feminist_known_for_war.html

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'You're a racist,' Williams College students tell author Christina Hoff Sommers during talk on femin (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2017 OP
Hard to make this one out.. whathehell Oct 2017 #1

whathehell

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1. Hard to make this one out..
Sat Oct 21, 2017, 06:38 AM
Oct 2017

since the tape doesn't covers the content of the author's remarks, only accusations by a student, and even those don't include any quotes from the author. It's not clear.

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