Charles Murray: ‘This was a repudiation of what the university is all about’

‘It’s been unreal,’ Murray says of the aftermath of Middlebury riot.

Nearly five months ago, Charles Murray was at the center of a firestorm controversy when a group of students and activists protested and shouted down his presentation at Middlebury College, with some protestors eventually turning violent and sending a professor to the hospital.

“It’s been unreal,” Murray claims of the last few months. People, he says, are “making assertions about what [he’s] said that bear no relationship to what [he’s] said.”

In a recent interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Murray reflects on the chaotic night in which he appeared at Middlebury for a presentation. “I expected the protests would occur,” Murray says. “What we didn’t know was whether they would keep it up forever.

“My initial thought was, hell, I’ll stand up here all night if I have to.”

Murray notes that many of the protestors were accusing him of white supremacist and white nationalist leanings, as well as eugenicist beliefs, accusations which he denied on Tucker Carlson’s television show.

Some of the faculty members, Murray says, determined he was a “bad guy” yet still bragged about not having read any of his work.

“They didn’t know what I was going to say,” Murray said of the protestors. “It wasn’t as if they were contesting that message.”

Watch the interview below: