Chico State Professor: College Republicans’ First Amendment Rights ‘Intensely Hurtful’ to Students

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A professor at Chico State (CSU, Chico) referred to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as “poison,” and suggested that she and other professors use the “immense privilege” they have as “tenured faculty” to protect students who are offended by their classmates exercising their First Amendment rights. The instructor told Breitbart News that the First Amendment allowing the school’s College Republicans to “voice their support for Trump and — the Republican Party” is “intensely hurtful” to many students on campus.

“The First Amendment protects our Republican Club students to voice their support for Trump and their support of the Republican Party. That is intensely hurtful to many of our students on campus,” CSU, Chico instructor Lindsay Briggs told Breitbart News.

The instructor had been responding to Breitbart News’ request for comment regarding a recent tweet in which Briggs referred to President Trump and Republicans as “poison,” urging her colleagues to “protect” students who become offended after hearing conservative students vocalize their support for President ahead of the 2020 Election due to the First Amendment.

“You and I have every right to stand by marginalized students and call out Trump and the Republican Party for being poison,” tweeted Briggs on Saturday.

“It is our time to be fearless leaders on campus and I expect more of you to stand up and do so. Particularly tenured faculty. We enjoy immense privilege so we better start using it,” she added, calling on her colleagues at CSU, Chico to “do an honest personal inventory and decide where you will stand as things escalate” ahead of the 2020 Election.

Briggs, who is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Public Health & Health Services Administration at CSU, Chico, had been reacting to “the recent ruckus on campus,” which she says is only “going to get bigger with the looming election.”

The “ruckus” appears to be in reference to recent clashes between leftist students and the school’s College Republicans group, whose chapter president was seen on video being attacked by an outraged student protester who took his sign and struck him in the face with it.

Following the incident, Briggs declared that “it is possible to uphold 1st Amendment Speech rights AND condemn, scold, and disagree with messages that you don’t agree with,” in an apparent defense of censuring conservative students for their so-called poisonous views.

full story at https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/12/17/chico-state-professor-college-republicans-first-amendment-rights-intensely-hurtful-to-students/

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