President Obama weighed in on the disinvitation issue by saying “I think it’s a healthy thing for young people to be engaged and to question authority and to ask why this instead of that, to ask tough questions about social justice. . . . Feel free to disagree with somebody, but don’t try to just shut them up . . . What I don’t want is a situation in which particular points of view that are presented respectfully and reasonably are shut down.” In other words, protest, but let the other side speak, too.
