Commentary
Many years ago, as an undergraduate member of our Union board, it fell to me to chair a meeting at my university.
After all those years, I can’t honestly recall what the meeting was about, but the “Rads” (radicals, as we used to call them in those days) evidently decided to break it up.
The verb “no-platform” wasn’t in use then, but the effect was the same. They filed into the front seats carrying red flags and simply shouted me down, so that nobody sitting behind them could hear a word from the platform. The meeting, naturally, was a washout….