Heckler's Veto

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If you want a good example of the heckler's veto being used, you can reference recent acts at Yale & Stanford of invited speakers unable to speak because of egregious disruptions

https://davidlat.substack.com/p/yale-law-is-no-longer-1for-f...

https://davidlat.substack.com/p/is-free-speech-in-american-l...

In the first article there's a lot of agonising but if the majority response to Duncan's speech was poor even when he wasn't being heckled is this not just a case of him being deeply unpopular?

He was invited to speak, surely no one promised him the audience would be supportive?

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