Advisers to Bernie Sanders are launching a new group to reach out to and recruit left-leaning students on college campuses. This might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
Are there not enough opportunities for American college students to be exposed to the left’s ideas on American college campuses? This is like trying to recruit people to do drugs on the streets of San Francisco.
The one interesting aspect of this story is that it is being done as a response to Turning Point USA, which means it is an admission of TPUSA’s success. I like the fact that this has the left concerned.
The Washington Post reports:
Liberals launch college project to counter Turning Point USAA liberal media outlet founded by advisers to Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a project Monday to counter Turning Point USA’s growing conservative influence and presence on college campuses.More Perfect University, created by the advocacy journalism nonprofit More Perfect Union, will focus on recruiting and training liberal content creators on campuses across the country, organizers said.“We’ve seen the success of the right, and we aim to rival it by being a thought leader on campuses,” Faiz Shakir, founder and executive director of More Perfect Union, said in a statement.The group runs one of the fastest-growing, left-wing channels on YouTube and has attracted attention across the political spectrum.The new effort will have three main components: on-campus events, including live interviews, debates and podcast tapings; a national digital community on email and Discord; and students trained to produce a pipeline of stories for the organization’s online platforms. The organization said it plans to prioritize public and working-class campuses.Instead of creating local chapters with members and dues, More Perfect Union said the college students will film short videos, make podcasts and report stories in their local communities.“We can’t cover every town. We can’t be at every campus. We can’t be everywhere. We need you,” the group’s new director, Elise Joshi, told viewers in an inaugural live stream Monday evening. “That is why we are opening up our newsroom and launching More Perfect University.”
This is utterly pointless. The whole reason for the success of Turning Point USA is that it offers an alternative to the leftist monoculture that already dominates college campuses. There is no need for a left-wing version.
Does this mean that conservative students will be allowed to harass members of this liberal group when they table on campus? How about shouting down liberal speakers and destroying campus displays? Is this new group going to have to deal with all of the things TPUSA constantly has to put up with?
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