Campus leftists didn’t cut short Ann Coulter’s latest speech at Cornell, but one of them was arrested for disrupting the event.
And it was something of a droll coincidence that “interpersonal communications” Professor Monica Cornejo was the arrestee.
The title of Coulter’s talk was “Immigration: The Conspiracy To End America.” Cornejo is an immigrant — an illegal immigrant.
Coulter’s Talk
Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff invited Coulter “as an effort to allow diverse perspectives on campus during the current freedom of expression theme year,” the Cornell Daily Sun reported.
Two years ago, deranged campus leftists forced an early end to a Coulter appearance. The latest event was meant to right that wrong.
“We’re here really to correct something that happened a year and a half ago when [Coulter] who was invited by Cornell students was prevented from speaking at Cornell, something that I did not attend,” Kotlikoff told the Sun. “I wish to remind all participants that Cornell values free and open inquiry and expression and strives to create a community where diverse opinions can be expressed.”
Anyone who tried to stop Coulter from speaking, Kotlikoff warned, would land in hot water with university officials.
As for Coulter’s speech, she rightly said that “immigration is the number one issue in the country [and] finally, people are paying attention.” The Sun reported:
“Never in human history has a country just decided to turn itself into another country like this,” Coulter said. “No offense to Mexico — love the food — but Japan doesn’t say, ‘Hey, let’s be Australia,’ or Australia say, ‘Let’s be Sweden.’ … We’re not doing them a favor by turning ourselves into the countries [immigrants] fled.” …
“Why does every sad sack in the world have to come to this country?” Coulter questioned. “What’s the trade-off with bringing millions of people from incredibly backward cultures who do not speak the language?”
The Arrest
During question time after Coulter’s talk, Cornejo — wearing a shirt emblazoned with “Keep Migrants, Deport The Racists” — called Coulter what you’d expect, the Sun continued.
“I’m an assistant professor of communication here, and one of those illegals that you mentioned,” the illegal alien said. “I really appreciate you coming in and talking about these issues, that way I get to know how many racist people belong to this University.”
Coulter interrupted her, “cutting her off for not posing a question,” the Sun reported:
When Cornejo responded by saying that she did have a question, Coulter retorted: “You got your chance. We’re moving on to the next question.”
Cornejo continued to shout remarks throughout the questions portion, such as “Racist,” and put up middle fingers in response to many of Coulter’s comments.
Campus cops removed and arrested the angry illegal.
After the event, Kotlikoff told the Sun that he disagreed with Coulter on immigration, but that “it’s important for Cornell to be able to support diverse views — that’s what a University does.”
Sun reporters asked whether the university would allow a “white nationalist or neo-Nazi to speak.”
“Professor” Cornejo
For her part, the tattooed Cornejo teaches at Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
“Cornejo’s status as an undocumented immigrant and DACA recipient has inspired her work as a professor,” a lachrymose profile in the Sun explained.
DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — is the illegal amnesty the Obama administration conferred on illegal-alien kids who crossed the border “through no fault of their own.”
Cornejo’s biography at the website suggests that her field of study isn’t exactly quantum physics:
Dr. Cornejo’s research interests center on understanding: (1) how the structural barriers that undocumented immigrants face result in different economic, educational, social, and health inequities; (2) how such barriers prompt certain communication identity management and advocacy communication strategies, and (3) what those strategies mean for undocumented immigrants’ wellbeing. …
[She] focuses on teaching students about different ways in which interpersonal communication can reduce or create disparities and inequities in the United States (e.g., discrimination towards sexual orientation minorities and immigrant communities), as well as the strategies members of minoritized communities (and allies, co-conspirators, families) utilize to challenge the disparities and inequities that position minoritized group members in a second-class position.
Translated from the gibberish, that means she’s a leftist, illegal-alien agitator masquerading as an academic.
Coulter’s last run-in from someone affiliated with Cornell’s ag school involved perpetually furious leftist commentator Keith Olbermann. He has a “communications” degree from the school.
Noting that “Olbermann savages anyone who didn’t go to an impressive college,” Coulter wrote that Olbermann went “to the school that offers classes in milking and bovine management.” She dubbed the school “Old MacDonald Cornell.”
Continued Coulter:
Olbermann’s incessant lying about having an “Ivy League education” when he went to the non-Ivy League ag school at Cornell would be like a graduate of the Yale locksmithing school boasting about being a “Yale man.”
Cornejo teaches at “Old MacDonald Cornell.”
H/T: Breitbart
