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 statueTwo 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.
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