Dominican U. Students Claim Turning Point USA on Campus Could Make Students ‘Feel Unsafe’
“I kind of find the institutional response from the student body’s reaction to feeling unsafe or feeling unheard to be a little bleak”
They have the nerve to say this after TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Insulting and stupid.
The College Fix reports:
Dominican U. students oppose Turning Point USA – could make students ‘feel unsafe’
A new Turning Point USA group could make students “feel unsafe,” according to a pro-Palestinian activist at Dominican University.
Marwa Abdullah said her own activism plans faced problems getting approval from the Catholic university in the western suburb of Chicago. However, she has no problem trying to put up the same obstacles for a nascent TPUSA chapter.
Abdullah (pictured) said it took a lot of “work” to “get approval” “to protest the genocide of Palestine,” during a recent student government meeting.
“I kind of find the institutional response from the student body’s reaction to feeling unsafe or feeling unheard to be a little bleak, in the sense that there were a lot more regulations that I had to go through for my work, versus, well there’s just nothing we can do because [it’s] free speech,” Abdullah said, according to the Dominican Star.
She said further:
I think what the root of the problem is that when a harmful legacy exists, and says ‘that this is what we’re trying to do,’ against the backdrop of everything that’s been done by an organization, that is what causes students to feel unsafe, that is what causes students to feel unheard, and that is where the disruption becomes.
Others express concerns for the safety of illegal immigrant students on campus.
“I’m concerned about students’ safety, I’m concerned about my professor’s safety, and I’m really concerned with the fact that this could put a target on undocumented students’ backs,” Leah Knobbe, a student, said at the meeting. “I’m really worried about my fellow students, about my fellow professors, and I would like somebody to be able to advocate for me.”
Sometimes TPUSA “brings in those booths to debate students,” she said, in likely reference to the popular “Prove Me Wrong” events. “I’m concerned about potential violence happening on campus because of that.”
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“I kind of find the institutional response from the student body’s reaction to feeling unsafe or feeling unheard to be a little bleak.”
Because you’re an aging joke. Read the room.
You have neither the right to “feel safe” nor the right to “be heard.”
Meanwhile, other people DO have the right to “speak.” You just don’t like that.
If the right to feel safe is the measure by which a student group’s right to exist is determined, then Abdullah’s group and any other pro-Hamas groups, plus many other Leftist groups will need to be banned – they make others feel unsafe.
Or is it her view that only the privileged Left have a right to feel safe, and only the privileged Left have a right to decide which student group’s may exist? In that case the right to feel safe is not the measure being used, merely the pretext for the Left to prohibit non-Left groups. Tyranny much?
These are the children of a generation of “play dates” vs spontaneous friendships (and instincts to reject the bad kids), helicopter parents ever at the ready with Purell ad bottled water.
“I’m concerned about potential violence happening on campus because of that.”
The violence is always from your side. I’ve never heard of a case of the reverse.