Posted on 09/11/2025 4:27:21 PM PDT by CFW
College Republicans across the country issued a warning to their universities that enough is enough of trying to silence them following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
After Kirk was murdered on Wednesday by an assassin's bullet while he was speaking with college kids at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, many have said that attempts to silence his message have failed, because now those who embraced Kirk's views and defense of open exchange of ideas with those who disagree are only going to get louder.
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Here's part of what the letter shared:
At BU, conservative students have long been marginalized, silenced by fear of social intimidation, academic penalty, or hostility. Many of our members feel they cannot openly affiliate with the College Republicans, and those who do are often met with slurs and false labels. Rather than fostering intellectual diversity, the university has allowed a single ideological perspective to dominate, leaving students of differing opinions isolated.
The celebration of Mr. Kirk's death on platforms like YikYak and Reddit, including by individuals within the BU community, reveals how dangerous this environment has become. Calls to violence against those with different views are not only hateful but intolerable in a university setting. The lack of institutional response emboldens such rhetoric and erodes trust in BU's commitment to protecting all students.
Next, they want the following:
1. Hold accountable those who incite or glorify violence.
2. Safeguard classrooms as spaces for genuine debate, not indoctrination.
3. Provide appropriate security for College Republicans events.
It closed with a quote from Fox News' Greg Gutfeld, who said after Kirk's murder, "It's really hard to radicalize Republicans. We're not the radical type. But if you thought that you were going to shut a movement down, you're in for a rude awakening."
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
It is time for Republican controlled legislatures to consider fully defunding schools that have staff that promote this kind of stuff and don’t teach actual skills and real knowledge. Institutions who have that kind of staff and curriculum are less than worthless - better to put the money in a pile and burn it than spend it on that stuff.
Do not sit back and take it anymore! If your commie prof wants you to answer certain ways, stand up to them! You are right and they are commies!
GO GET ‘EM!
They’ve been doing it for half a century. Or more.
Charlie Kirk made a point of not engaging in hate, but of engaging in debate and politely disagreeing.
I’d hate to see his legacy turning to hate.
We need to stop being silent, and to stop preemptively surrendering. But we don’t need to get violent or hateful.
Sorry, but these people can’t be reasoned with.
I wonder how involved with the crime the college itself is.
Good, keep it up. Marxists and neo-Marxists have been working to take over our universities for decades. Prove me wrong.
They pay the same tuition as everyone else. Maybe they should leave the left wing universities behind.
Shut down ALL of the Unis for year+.
Make all of the Commie Profs move to Venezuela.
STOP all Fed Gov’t student loans.
Drop the CCP student count in the US to 600 [NOT 600,000].
Let the Unis try to reopen in the Fall of 2027.
They drew first blood.
I just watched Laura Ingle’s monologue and I wanted to scream. “What has happened to us?” she naively asks.
FFS.
It all stems from MARXISM. ALL OF IT.
These violent leftists see literally EVERYTHING as “oppressor and oppressed”. Trans? Oppressed. Everyone else? Oppressor. Same for all of the other alphabet people, same for the Palestinians, same for every other oppressed-people-du-jour.
That’s what they’ve been “marinated” in, Laura. That’s the cause of it all.
This will NOT end until we’ve ripped Marxism out of this country by the roots. If we need additional laws to do so, then we need to enact them. Again, it’s the Marxist poison that is fueling this.
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.”
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Prayers UP that these college-age youngsters grab this opportunity and RUN with it!
They truly ARE our last hope for America aside from President Trump and VP Vance.
YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!!
Another thread on this board regarding a zoo keeper and lions. Interesting parallels. Don’t turn your back on them or drop your guard. They will gleefully eat you alive.
Well said. It would be the best response for friendlt media to replay what he just said, and for someone to make it easy to find on the web.
He recently was on Squawk Box, Gutfeld (iirc), Bret Bair. He was hitting new peak heights of cultural influence. Even on Southpark.
- some may think it was a hit job but they were fairly representing his point of view, and his response was positively Washingtonian: “they even got my hairline right”. He WANTED to be charicatured if it meant his thoughts were brought up.
Proof that Democrats will put Republicans in death camps &they think they will get away with it! I have seen nothing to make me think the GOP would hesitate to get on the train for a 1 way ride that ends in a open mass grave.
Proof that Democrats will put Republicans in death camps &they think they will get away with it! I have seen nothing to make me think the GOP would hesitate to get on the train for a 1 way ride that ends in a open mass grave.
Take away tenure. That’s the fastest way to end this. And, take away favorable loans to administrators for residence.
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