St. Thomas Aquinas College student Mairead McArdle recently decried the protest tactics seen in this video, which shows a group of students at Portland State University storming a panel and while chanting “we will not be silenced in the face of your violence” until the event was shut down.

McArdle has first hand experience dealing with thuggish leftist tactics,  as a witness to the antics of University of California – Santa Barbara’s feminist professor, Mireille Miller-Young, who  assaulted a pro-life teen on a college campus and stole her sign and is now facing formal charges.

…When the incident began I was using the sign in the “free-speech zone” to start conversations with people passing by. I began a calm, rational conversation with Professor Young, asking her what her thoughts were on our position and our sign.

She immediately raised her voice and spoke condescendingly, accusing me of using “fear tactics” to coerce women.

“I have a PhD, three degrees more than you do!” she yelled, smiling. At one point, she threw the pamphlet I had handed her at me.

“Do you even go here?” she asked me. “There’s no way you have the right to be here.”

I told Miller-Young that she could ask the administration whether we had the right to promote our cause on campus. She refused, saying she knew we had no right to remain.

After about 10 minutes of Miller-Young talking over me and yelling obscenities, a group of about 15 students gathered around us and watched the spectacle, as the professor continued her rant.

Before Miller-Young had begun, some of the students had been having reasonable discussions with us, but now they joined the professor and, following her example, mocked us and our work.

Professor Young started waving her arms, and walked back and forth between us and the students, insisting to them that we were liars.

Each time I tried to speak to Miller-Young, she would interrupt to yell at me. I also talked to at least three of the students who had gathered around. Because the situation was already hostile, however, and they threw insults me.

Then the professor turned to the students and said, “What are we going to do about this? Should we tear down their sign?” She started a chant with most of the students: “Tear down the sign!” Three or four from my group approached individual people in an attempt to prevent the mob that was forming.

…Professor Young could have calmly discussed the issue or even ignored us, but she chose to be personally insulting and both verbally and physically abusive with a peaceful group of younger women.