Posted on 12/16/2016 8:19:44 AM PST by NRx
Edited on 12/16/2016 9:11:40 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
The president of the Cornell University College Republicans was shoved to the ground and called a “racist bitch” the night after the election, and campus officials are currently investigating the incident.
“I was actually assaulted on campus for being a Republican,” Olivia Corn told The Tab. “I had someone throw me to the ground and say: ‘[bleep] you, racist bitch, you support a racist party.”
Corn gave the same account to The Ithaca Voice.
“Out of nowhere I was on my phone and looking at my email and out of nowhere I felt two hands grab my shoulders and just sort of threw me to the ground, and they were yelling ‘Fuck you racist bitch, you support a racist party,'” Corn said.
She has reported the incident to Cornell police and the university’s Title IX office.
“I now walk with an alarm at all times. That’s pretty much my new normal. I don’t walk by myself after a certain time, once it gets dark. And that’s not something I should have to be concerned with,” Corn told The Tab. “I’m a college student, I’m just trying to get good grades, get to law school, keep my head down – besides being the head of an organization.
“It weighs in the back of my mind when I walk places now.”
She said it happened late at night and she never saw her attacker’s face, but that “I think the person knew who I was,” citing her position as president of the College Republicans, The Tab reports.
This incident also does not mark the first time she has been harassed for her Republican identity.
“People yell in my face all the time. I get random messages telling me what I should and should not be doing on Facebook, in my email,” Corn told the Voice. “I’ve had a history of people not liking me so much.”
She added that after she was quoted in a Cornell Daily Sun article in May saying she would vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, she received death threats.
She can ASSUME any thing she wants; but facts PROVE that there is a chance; however small; that she is NOT 'safe'.
Therefore; a well 'educated' person would take some kind of tangible step(s) to increase her odds of being 'safe'!
Judged by twelve or carried by 6.
Her choice.
“...herefore; a well ‘educated’ person would take some kind of tangible step(s) to increase her odds of being ‘safe’! ...”
Indeed.
Carry a concealed sidearm. Always, everywhere. REGARDLESS.
Your life and well being matter more than anything else.
The Sun is done for the semester I think.
And in one story about this case the victim said she waited till she got home from Ithaca to speak to the media because she was afraid of being harassed further by the tolerant liberals in the city of evil
Let’s assume her story is true ... seems most of these are hoaxes lately, tho usually from the other side. In that case, this woman was targeted and targeted, one assumes, by another student. Who else but other students know she’s head of College Repubs?
I don’t know if you’ve been on the Cornell campus, or any college campus lately. Yes, as I noted, there ARE incidents, but they are rare, and nowhere near as common as on the streets of our major cities, and less common on a remote campus like Cornell. Typically there are students walking safely across campus every hour of the night and day. They have their own police force, and they have ‘blue lights’ but no place is ever safe. That situation alone makes me curious about how this incident would have taken place. I hope it’s not a hoax. Let that be the purview of the left.
The alternative is to give in to fear and never to go out or only to go out in large groups.
Good reason to HAVE A CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT.....Oh,wait...it’s New York State...victim’s need not apply!!!!
Demonrats will be demonrats.
Does she actually think that the Cornell Administration and the campus police are going to do a serious investigation into this? Cornell when to the Marxist left decades ago and never came back.
They have a bunch of lunatics on their staffs and they run the asylum.
Thanks for the clarification.
My daughter attended Ithaca College. Never been the same.
10 posts before a FReeper blames the victim.
Well I guess that’s progress.
She should get her carry license.
Tell that to about half this forum
I’d love to know why the Supreme Court does not take up issues of what constitutes “infringement” of the right to bear arms.
Should we allow states or local governments to redefine everything else, like the definition of murder. “Its not murder if it is performed on a Tuesday in Buffalo with a straight razor”.
Why then, the definition of “infringement”?
You don’t read very well. I’ve said TWICE now that the assault is very different from being yelled at.
You need to work on your reading comprehension.
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