Professors Slam New College Over Plans for Campus Statue of Charlie Kirk
“For them to do this whole thing about a statue and talk about free speech and civility discourse, it’s just complete bulls—, right?”
It’s just stunning the way some people on the left keep doubling down in their smears of Kirk.
The College Fix reports:
‘Odious,’ ‘white supremacy’: Professors bash Florida college’s plans for Charlie Kirk statue
Two professors recently criticized New College of Florida’s plans to honor the late conservative leader Charlie Kirk with a statue on campus, speaking on a “radical” left podcast.
One, Arizona State University Professor Alexander Avina, described the statue as part of the right’s “odious” takeover of the college campus. Another scholar suggested the move is an instance of “white supremacy.”
“For them to do this whole thing about a statue and talk about free speech and civility discourse, it’s just complete bulls—, right? But they know what they’re doing. They enjoy this, I think,” Avina said on an episode of Millennials are Killing Capitalism, published Monday. The podcast bills itself as a platform for “radical” leftist ideologies.
Last week, the Florida public college announced plans to commission a statue of Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA who was killed earlier this month at Utah Valley University.
According to an X post by the college, the statue will serve as a reminder of its commitment “to defend and fight for free speech and civil discourse in American life.”
Avina suggested the move is hypocritical. He said New College was “essentially the victim of a hostile takeover” by “right-wing” “ilk” like Chris Rufo, a conservative researcher and member of the college’s board.
“They completely destroyed and undermined and radically transformed what that university used to be in Florida,” the Latin American history professor said.
Avina said New College used to be a “very liberal, accepting space in the deep south for people who didn’t quite fit in or were ostracized or attacked for who they were.”
Also on the podcast was Lara Sheehi, a former George Washington University professor of clinical psychology who left in 2024 after being accused of discriminating against Jewish and Israeli students, according to The GW Hatchet student newspaper. Now, she is a research fellow at the University of South Africa.
Sheehi said this “return of the statues” by the right is “symbolic,” and recalled a few years ago when statues were being “ripped down” by leftist protesters.
Today, we announced that we will commission a statue of Charlie Kirk to honor his legacy and incredible work after his tragic assassination last week. The statue, privately funded by community leaders, will stand on campus as a commitment by New College to defend and fight for… pic.twitter.com/uCPAlACq7S
— New College of Florida (@NewCollegeofFL) September 16, 2025
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Comments
What’s your problem? Once it’s erected, you can always pull it down, as you damn Visigoths love to do.
How many Floyd tributes are there to take down?
He’s correct. That is indeed what happened. The university is the property of the State of Florida, and yet it had been run in complete defiance of that state’s wishes, so the owner took control of its property and set its affairs in order.
hero of the left: george floyd
hero of the maga: charlie kirk
create the honest list of characteristics and you know we’re at war with a left that knows once again
take no prisoners
they are sick
we are praying for peace
Avina said “… people who didn’t quite fit in or were ostracized or attacked for who they were …”
This describes Charlie Kirk, you fool.
Avina said “… people who didn’t quite fit in or were ostracized or attacked for who they were …”
Of course, what he meant was blacks, muslims, gays and trannies, because the Victimhood Narrative™ must be supported.
Today is National Punctuation Day.
Today, I will be protesting the oppression of ¿ by racist white nationalists.
We will be meeting at Rhode Island School of Design to pull down a grammatically fascist statue.
Hi, grammar Nazi here.
Remove the comma from the second “Today” an place it behind “racist”.
My comma, my choice!!1!
Why do outside Professors think Florida should give a darn what they think?
Many academics are nothing more than opportunistic parasites, feeding off of a bloated decaying shell of what was once a respectable body of knowledge. Once so infested, institutions rot from within, so it is not that apparent to outside observers until this process reaches the latter stages. We are witnessing this now because the hosts are no longer able to maintain the semblance of normality, and are becoming overtly dysfunctional. Eventually some of these schools will succumb, but not before the drama intensifies quite a bit in some quarters. The students and parents caught in the middle will get burned, but the chances are most of the agents of this destruction will be well-burrowed elsewhere by then.
Isn’t this the school that spent half a million dollars hiring a lobbyist named Piccolo who was exposing himself at Dillard’s? Statue is great, but I’m not sure this is who we want carrying our flag….