PJ Media’s Toni Airaksinen relates her College enlightened journalistic experience writing non PC articles at the Columbia Daily Spectator – Why Conservative College Kids Should Be a Protected Class
But instead of focusing on social justice in the traditional way, I focused on something else — the dangers of feminism, misleading sexual assault statistics, and the lack of due process for men in campus rape trials. I wrote columns arguing that Columbia should offer a course in men’s studies, and that students shouldn’t report microaggressions. Sure, women face problems in society, but men do too. Shouldn’t we care about them?
Hell no! Laughing out loud on that one Toni. No doubt Toni has shared experiences with kindred soul Helen Smith who blogs at PJ media and is a big men’s rights supporter.
Toni continues her story, admitting she was somewhat naive…
The backlash was swift. Perhaps I went into it too naively. After all, I was a student at a women’s college, a hotbed of militant feminism. I should have expected it. But after a while, the angry comments and diatribes students emailed me gave way into something more pernicious — being targeted on campus.
Students started yelling, quite literally, when they saw me on campus. One student followed me around twice in the local grocery store, trying to accost me. They’d come up to me at my campus desk job, demanding an apology for what I’d written. One student would take pictures of me when she saw me at the library. Then, the death threats came in. Not from strangers on the internet, but from fellow students.
She thought she was alone…
Needless to say, my experiences aren’t unique, at least for outspoken conservative and libertarian students on campus. As the rates of targeted harassment of gay and transgender students has fallen, students who don’t conform to left-liberal ideology face harassment at rising rates. When I first started getting death threats, I thought I was alone. It wasn’t until I started meeting other outspoken conservative students that I realized that the experience was de rigueur.
Ashley Rae Goldenberg, a popular libertarian journalist, faced death threats from peers when she was a student at George Mason University. Kassy Dillon, a student at Mount Holyoke, was tracked down by peers on election night and was verbally assaulted. Marisa Ricchey, a student at UT-Knoxville, saw her service dog get kicked after someone on campus saw her pro-Trump pin. These are just a few cases. There are dozens more that have been covered by the media, and even more that don’t break news
Likewise, as websites like Campus Reform and The College Fix report — harassment that students face has rise precipitously since the election. One pro-Trump student, 18-year-old Andi Moritz, was forced to flee Boston University after facing relentless harassment from her peers. Her only crime? Asking for a ride to a Trump rally so she wouldn’t have to carpool with a guy she didn’t know well.
Got that, forced to flee Boston University from peer harassment. Shame, absolute shame on both Boston University and the snowflake pieces of scum students that are supposedly her peers.
She has some recommended solutions, to which I recommend you read the whole thing.
And why is it important to implement these solutions? Toni explains in her concluding paragraph…
The cultural values learned in college colonize all other aspects of American life. That’s why colleges should step up to the plate. If people don’t learn that harassing conservatives isn’t OK while in college, will they ever learn?
It is beyond a travesty what is happening on our college campuses. If you as an administrator don’t feel shame, you should resign or better yet, you should be fired.
