Victoria Jackson crashes Vanderbilt event targeting professor for her opinion
Victoria Jackson, “Saturday Night Live” veteran turned tea-party activist, has created a stir by challenging politically correct statements at a Vanderbilt University protest where Muslims were objecting to a professor’s “hate speech” in an op-ed in a Nashville newspaper.
Political science and law professor Carol Swain wrote in the Tennessean newspaper that the Islamic terror attacks in France show that critics of Islam “were right.”
Students immediately organized a demonstration to protest her supposed “hate speech,” and Jackson attended. She tried to counter the two anti-Swain speakers being featured, saying if the Constitution still exists in the United States that Swain should be able to exercise her freedom of speech.
But Jackson was shut down by the university. ...