Stanford promptly apologized to U.S. District Judge Kyle Duncan after he was shouted down by a student mob, but Riley Gaines is still waiting for anything resembling an apology from San Francisco State University.
Instead, SFSU President Lynn Mahoney congratulated the university for letting Ms. Gaines deliver her remarks last week, even though the former collegiate swimmer was swarmed afterward by screaming protesters and barricaded in a room for hours by campus police as the hostile crowd lay in wait outside.
“Unlike previous events on this campus and other campuses, I am proud to say that the First Amendment was honored,” she said. As for the mob scene, Ms. Mahoney added: “Unfortunately, a disturbance after the event concluded delayed the speaker’s departure. We are reviewing the incident and, as always, will learn from the experience.”Instead, the school president commiserated with those offended by her call for barring male-born athletes from girls’ and women’s competitive sports.
Ms. Gaines said last weekend she plans to take legal action after being “ambushed and physically hit twice by a man,” causing her to miss her flight as she sat trapped in the room as protesters outside talked about charging ransom in exchange for letting her leave.PEN America called the event a “disaster” that “makes a mockery of the principles of free speech that allow higher education to function.
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