This was apparently supposed to be a joke. Somehow it’s not that funny.
Campus Reform reports:
Socialist group suggests conservative peer belongs in GulagA socialist student group at Kent State University recently suggested that a conservative student belongs in a Soviet prison camp for her stance on free speech.The comment was made after Leandra Westbrook, vice president of the school’s Turning Point USA chapter, defended her organization from a petition designed to stifle free speech.“Silencing speech is fascism,” she tweeted. “The petition is useless. We aren’t going anywhere.”The Kent State Socialist Collective (KSSC), a student organization that was formed in 2013, responded to Westbrook by tweeting a map of the Soviet Gulag system and telling her that “there’s one place you might be going…”According to the group’s Facebook page, the organization “exists to facilitate a sense of understanding and community between those who are interested in socialism and those who are socialists.”“We stand on the side of the working class, the oppressed, the exploited, and anyone who wishes to create a better world based upon equality, justice, and peace,” the group’s mission statement reads. “The KSSC is a coalition of ideologically diverse students and community members united by a desire to advance the idea of a world beyond capitalism.”
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