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Liberals' twisted views on Charlie Kirk assassination, censorship captured by a damning poll
It has long been abundantly clear that there is a strong appetite for political violence and ideological uniformity on the left. A new Young America's Foundation poll released on Tuesday indicated that this is indeed an intergenerational problem.
Shortly after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Echelon Insights conducted a YAF survey of 1,021 registered voters ages 18-29 nationwide.
On the topic of Kirk's murder on Sept. 10, respondents were asked which of the following two statements they agreed with more: "There is absolutely no justification for murdering someone over their viewpoints" or "Kirk's viewpoints mean he brought this violence upon himself to an extent."
Seventy percent of respondents answered that there was no justification for murdering a person over his views. While 90% of conservatives and 75% of moderates answered that there was no justification, 42% of self-described liberal respondents suggested that Kirk had it coming.
'Three in ten young voters, however, say violence might be justified in some instances to shut those types of speech down.'
Young liberals' responses to a follow-up question helped clarify that a great many just don't want conservatives to be able to articulate their views in public.
When asked whether they believed "we are better off when strongly conservative viewpoints are able to be voiced and shared in the public square," 53% of liberals said conservative viewpoints should be "shut down or kept out of the public square."
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Only 49% of all respondents supported expressions of conservative viewpoints in public. The statement lacked majority support in part because only 75% of conservatives indicated that society was better off when their viewpoints were not shut down in public.
Although young liberals majoritively favor censorship, YAF noted that a significant percentage of all respondents are far from absolute in their support for free speech.
"Fewer than half of young voters think that negative statements toward racial or ethnic groups or celebrating acts of violence should be protected as free speech — 42% and 48% respectively — and roughly 60% believe such expression should be reportable to employers," noted YAF spokesman Spencer Brown. "Three in ten young voters, however, say violence might be justified in some instances to shut those types of speech down."
Other polls in recent months and years have similarly highlighted the violent and censorious mentality that possesses so many on the left.
A Marist Poll conducted in late September found that 10% of Democrats strongly agreed and another 18% agreed with the statement that "Americans may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track."
A survey conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University's Social Perception Lab revealed in April that 55% of respondents who identified as left of center said that assassinating Trump would be at least somewhat justified.
RMG Research asked American adults in the wake of the September 2024 attempt on President Donald Trump's life whether the country would "be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?" While 69% of respondents said no, 28% of Democrats answered "yes."
The desire on the left to see consequence visited upon those who refuse to ideologically fall in line was also manifested during the pandemic, when a poll found that 45% of Democrats strongly or somewhat favored "having federal or state governments require that citizens temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine."
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"Achieving equity" among students may "require unequal distribution of resources and services," according to a Milwaukee Public Schools memo Young America's Foundation obtained.
What are the details?
The overarching theme of the 33-page memo is student discipline "disproportionality," and the document also includes directives on anti-racism, equity, and "whiteness."
One section on page 25 of the memo reads: “Whiteness is everywhere around us. Educational practices have been rooted in whiteness and coming from a lens of whiteness for years. Educators should reflect on which elements of whiteness they see in education, which they participate in, and which elements they can work to dismantle."
That same page suggests staff ask themselves, "How is your world view and practices within education centered in whiteness? What racists [sic] beliefs have you internalized? What are specific steps we can take to de-center whiteness in our educational practices?"
A section on "equity" on page 7 makes sure to distinguish between "equality" and "equity," noting the former means "uniform distribution of district resources, supports, and opportunities" and the latter means "allocation of district resources, supports, and opportunities that is based on the needs of students and staff."
The section goes on to say that "achieving equity may require an unequal distribution of resources and services in order to ensure that all children have an equal opportunity to a free and appropriate public education."
A list of resources on page 26 links to a nearly 27-minute video titled “Whiteness: WTF? White Privilege and the Invisible Race."
YAF said it's unclear how widely the memo was distributed and that it reached out to Milwaukee Public Schools in regard to the memo.
"What Milwaukee Public Schools are promoting is yet another example of a concentrated effort to eliminate a merit-based system and replace it with one that is focused on race," Jasmyn Jordan, national chairwoman of YAF, told Fox News. "DEI is fundamentally against everything the left claims to stand for — it is the opposite of racial equality and inclusion."
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The student editors of a college newspaper in Nebraska refused to publish a letter to the editor from a conservative student, mocking his request to have the letter published, according to leaked screenshots of their communications.
Wayne State College Student Senate President Blake Aspen wrote a letter to the editor in September criticizing the editorial decisions of the Wayne Stater — a letter that went ignored. On Wednesday, he sent an email to the student editors of the paper inquiring about his letter, which was written in response to statements from the paper's editor-in-chief boasting of leading an all-female editorial board with no conservative opinions.
"Earlier this year, I sent you a letter that was critical, but fair of [The Wayne Stater's] editorial practices. I'm curious as to when that letter will be published," Aspen wrote.
"As you are aware, at Wayne State College, we embrace diversity of all sorts. It's mildly concerning when the Editor-In-Chief publishes statements claiming how proud she is to have an all-female editorial board with no right-of-center opinions shared whatsoever," he said.
"Given my willingness to sit down for multiple interviews with your paper, I am looking forward to hearing back from you with a timeline for publishing the letter to the editor."
After receiving Aspen's email, the editorial team of the Wayne Stater mocked his request, leaked screenshots obtained by Young America's Foundation's Campus Bias Tipline show. The screenshots were given to Aspen, who posted them on Twitter on Wednesday.
Thx 2 a whistleblower, I have possess of the Wayne Stater, WSC’s campus newspaper, refusing to publish any conserva… https://t.co/aFHWz5jJMp
— Blake Aspen (@blakeaspenne) 1633568438.0
"Aww guys he wants his letter published in our paper!" Laura Spieler, the arts and entertainment editor, wrote.
"Still not gonna do it lmao," Editor-in-Chief Kaitlynn Breeden replied. "I'm gonna respond to his email and try to not be a bitch and explain why I'm not publishing it."
Aspen's unpublished letter to the editor was a response to an op-ed piece that Breeden wrote last spring criticizing Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts.
"Hi, it's me again <3 Just want to remind everyone that this is the opinion section, this is not news, will not be news, and I will be making fun of Pete Ricketts again," Breeden wrote. "This is just my opinion, nothing about this needs to be taken to heart. If you're a Ricketts fan, maybe skip this one and just read the news section this week."
In his letter, Aspen criticized Breeden for asking students that support Ricketts to "skip this one," complaining that the tone of her op-ed suggests she has no desire to persuade those that might disagree with her.
"When [The Wayne Stater] editors, and more specifically, the editor-in-chief, openly ask readers who do not align with the writer's perspective to 'sit this editorial out,' it causes grave concern. This shows that you're not even attempting to compel or persuade individuals who might disagree with you," Aspen wrote.
In response, Breeden wrote in a new op-ed that her opinion columns are "satire" and that she considers op-eds "to be different than editorials, which try to persuade."
"The only goal I have when writing my opinion columns is to make the reader laugh. That is honestly it. They are meant to be taken as a joke," Breeden wrote.
"[I]f the letter he sent in wasn't a personal attack on myself and other editors, I would've published it weeks ago," she added.
Breeden also said she was "disappointed" that a member of the editorial team took screenshots of their private chat messages and made them public.
"To be honest, I don't know our staff's political party identifications, and I don't care. But someone may have conservative views, because they sent Aspen a screenshot of our private group messages. This is disappointing to me because this could lead to staff members not expressing what they really think during meetings anymore, due to not wanting someone to leak information about them," she wrote.
Aspen told YAF that conservative thought at college campuses faces a "hostile environment."
"The reckless ideologues at The Wayne Stater discriminate against conservatives in private, but it's up to conservative students across the country to demand transparency in the way these publicly funded newspapers operate. It's time to end the suppression of speech on college campuses," he said.
Responding to a request for comment from YAF, Wayne State College Director of College Relations Jay Collier said: "The student journalists on the editorial board of The Wayne Stater have the right to determine the content of the publication consistent with Board Policy 3350."
She added: "We would encourage the editorial staff of The Wayne Stater to review its editorial policies to ensure accountability and transparency in its decision-making consistent with prevailing journalistic ethical and professional standards."
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