California colleges are seeing a rise of conservative voices. Some classes are tense

CALMATTERS ^ | May 16, 2026 | BY KAHANI MALHOTRA

[artichokegrower]

Turning Point chapters continue to grow on California campuses months after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Campuses are seeing tensions rise as conservative students become more vocal both in and out of the classroom.

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[artichokegrower]

My local college University of California Santa Cruz hired Angela Davis as a full time professor. Huey Newton got a PHD there.

[ComputerGuy]

Huey Newton? PhD?

[Red Badger]

The Left will not stand for their conquered territories to be snatched away ............

[rktman]

Lots of dumbass PhDs out there.

[No.6]

“KAHANI MALHOTRA”

Nuff said. It’s ‘tense’ and ‘controversial’ when people speak of normal things.

[DFG]

Piled Higher and Deeper

[AZJeep]

I guess, Angela Davis, chief of the communist party USA and once most wanted criminal, is mainstream, while Charlie Kirk is controversial.
Where are we?!

[joshua c]

Debate in the classroom?

OMG!!!

All is lost

[muir_redwoods]

PhD= Piled hip Deep

[muir_redwoods]

My Alma mater, Eastern Connecticut State University named Black Panther, Warren Kimbro to be associate Dean. He was convicted of the torture murder of Alex Rackley in 1969 because they thought he was an FBI informant. They poured boiling water on Rackley for several days before shooting him

[IAGeezer912]

In 1969 I was a Soph in engineering at Iowa State Univ. One day in a manditory, worthless as tits on a boar, sociology class everyone was wearing a black arm band supporting Jane Fonda and her support of North Vietnam. The instructor handed me an arm band and I refused to take it. I called Jane a traitor. They yelled at me the entire time and I just sat there smiling at their asinine behavior.

I came out of that classroom that day a solid LIFE LONG conservative and at 76 I am 100% MAGA.