Raskin Lecture on Democracy Shut Down by Hecklers at Maryland University
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Hecklers disrupted Rep. Jamie Raskin's lecture on democracy at the University of Maryland until it was ended by the university president.
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The president said it showed "democracy and free speech," but others criticized allowing hecklers to shut down speakers.
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Raskin said he's "not opposed to heckling" but nowadays hecklers try to "drown out the speaker."
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Some on social media said the president was wrong to approve of the hecklers shutting down speech.
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A professor called the disruption an "actual exercise of democracy rather than a story about democracy."