University of Oregon President: Social Justice Warriors Are Fascists

“[It is] ironic that they would associate fascism with the university during a protest in which they limit discourse.”

by Alex Parker

Leftist college campus protesters fight against free speech, devoting themselves —sometimes with violence and the destruction of property — to the silencing of any opposing views and the shutting down of debate. In other words, they’re fascists. Having had enough of their bigotry, the president of the University of Oregon decided to call a spade a spade, in his recent op-ed for The New York Times.

In his column, Schill was responding to the disruption by social justice warriors of his state of the university address. He wrote:

Armed with a megaphone and raised fists, the protesters shouted about the university’s rising tuition, a perceived corporatization of public higher education and my support for free speech on campus — a stance they said perpetuated “fascism and white supremacy.”

I have nothing against protest. It is a time-honored form of communicating dissent. Often, the concerns students express very much deserve to be addressed. But the tactic of silencing, which has been deployed repeatedly at universities around the country, only hurts these activists’ cause. Rather than helping people who feel they have little power or voice, students who squelch speech alienate those who are most likely to be sympathetic to their message.

It is also ironic that they would associate fascism with the university during a protest in which they limit discourse. One of the students who stormed the stage during my talk told the news media to “expect resistance to anyone who opposes us.” That is awfully close to the language and practices of those the students say they vehemently oppose.

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