Dozens of students at Indiana’s Notre Dame University protested against White House policies on Sunday by walking out of a commencement speech by Vice President Mike Pence, who criticized political correctness at American colleges.
The members of the graduating class — dressed in cap and gowns together with some two thousand classmates — stood up and quietly left the school’s football stadium when Pence began delivering his speech, videos posted online showed. Others cheered and some booed.
Notre Dame, in the city of South Bend, is one of the country’s most prominent Catholic universities.
#NotreDame Notre Dame students disrespect @VP Mike Pence by walking out on commencement speech. Cultural Marxism is absolutely disgusting. pic.twitter.com/EEWkrHf9Ay
— Red Pill⏳ (@RedPillDropper) May 21, 2017
Pence, who received an honorary degree from the university, said that “far too many campuses across America have become characterized by speech codes, safe zones, tone policing, administration-sanctioned political correctness — all of which amounts to nothing less than suppression of the freedom of speech.”
“These all-too-common practices are destructive of learning and the pursuit of knowledge, and they are wholly outside the America tradition,” he added.
