Manitou Messenger.\u00a0 <\/em>The latter interviewed 12 Trump supporting students, virtually \u201call\u201d of whom admitted to feeling that the campus environment rendered it impossible for them to discuss\u2014civilly, rationally discuss\u2014politics with their peers. But it is even worse than this, given that \u201cseveral\u201d of these students had been \u201cviolently threatened because of their political beliefs [.]\u201d<\/p>\nOn the night of the election, the President of the College Republicans, Emily Schaller, was threatened by another student and called a \u201cf**king moron.\u201d\u00a0 In the days following Trump\u2019s victory, she overheard groups of students promising aloud \u201cto hurt the next conservative or Republican they saw.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Vice President of the College Republicans, another young lady, Kathryn Hinderaker, encountered the same phenomenon.\u00a0 She told her school paper that \u201cone of the hardest things\u201d occurred the day after the presidential election. It was at that time that, upon entering a campus building, she heard someone shout assurances to all Trump voters that they had \u201cbetter be f**king scared!\u201d\u00a0 To this, all who were present \u201cclapped and applauded.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously,\u201d she concludes, \u201cit didn\u2019t feel super safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t take an especially creative intellect to imagine what the reaction of the whole college community would have been had it not been Republican and Trump-supporting students, but, say, immigrant or black students that had been threatened in this manner. Nor does it require much prescience to know that had the female students that were victimized been leftist feminists, the reaction to their victimization would have been far different from what it has been.<\/p>\n
One student\u2014another female\u2014remarked that such was the hostility of the environment in her classes toward \u201cconservatives\u201d that she left school for a time.\u00a0 By the end of the fall semester, the on-line harassment that she endured drove her to transfer to another institution altogether.<\/p>\n
In February, someone \u201cposted an unsolicited photo of a group of students that supposedly included Trump supporters and encouraged fellow students to \u2018remember their faces.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Ironically, St. Olaf College\u2019s chapter of the College Republicans did not <\/em>endorse Trump during the election season.\u00a0 However, its members are still targeted. Conservative students will not express their views in class for fear of being ostracized or injured by their peers and penalized by their instructors.<\/p>\nFor some students, the toxicity of the campus environment has gotten to be too much.\u00a0 For about 20 minutes at the beginning of every class period, said one female pupil, her professor would mock Trump.\u00a0 This student said that she planned on transferring to another institution next year.<\/p>\n
While some of their students were being mocked, intimidated, and threatened for their viewpoints, the administrators and faculty of St. Olaf College extended their collective arms in welcoming the one-time Communist Party USA presidential candidate Angela Davis to speak on campus.<\/p>\n
Time doesn\u2019t permit it, but, tragically, it wouldn\u2019t require much effort to show that St. Olaf College is not anomalous in these respects.\u00a0 Conservative students are threatened, bullied, intimidated, and, on occasion, assaulted at colleges and universities around the country.\u00a0 Worse, it is not always just their fellow students who target them, but professors as well.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, and for all of their hysteria concerning the need for \u201ccry ins,\u201d safe spaces, and the like, radical leftist students and faculty speak and act with impunity.<\/p>\n
Other examples of this educational malpractice, intolerance, and outright oppression will be revisited in this column in the near future. Everyone who cares about protecting the victims of injustice while salvaging what can be salvaged of higher education in America needs to both inform themselves of this crisis and work diligently to resolve it.<\/p>\n
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