Are Conservative Students Now Targets?
The story coming out of Brown University is disturbing—outright nightmarish.
A gunman assassinates the president of the College Republicans club at Brown, opens fire on others, and kills another student. That alone should stop every university administrator, faculty member, and parent cold.
But what has followed is, in some ways, even more unsettling.
Suddenly, there are no cameras.
No recordings.
No clear public account of what the shooter yelled upon entering the room.
Brown’s web pages are quietly changing.
This bizarre institutional response will—and should—remain under investigation. Transparency should be the bare minimum after a political assassination on campus.
But there is a deeper issue that must be addressed now.
Conservative Christian Students Are Being Targeted
For decades, American universities have allowed—and actively promoted—anti-Christian bigotry as a normal feature of academic life. Hatred for Christianity, the Bible, and Jesus was not hidden. It was front and center in classrooms, departments, and administrative programming.
Under banners like “decolonization,” “liberation,” and “critical theory” “anti-whiteness,” explicitly Marxist frameworks were normalized. Christianity was routinely portrayed as oppressive, violent, regressive, or morally illegitimate. Conservative Christians were not treated as intellectual equals, but as moral problems to be managed. Faculty bragged to each other about deconverting Christians and pushing them into LGBTQ+ sex lifestyles.
For years, universities insisted this was harmless—just “speech,” just “critique,” just “the free exchange of ideas.”
But history teaches us a sobering lesson: dehumanization always comes before violence.
What we are witnessing now is a movement from normalized hate speech to real-world action.
Is It Still Safe to Be a Conservative Christian on Campus?
This is no longer an abstract question.
What are universities doing right now to ensure that conservative Christian students—especially student leaders—are safe?
What safeguards exist when entire academic cultures have trained students to view Christianity as an enemy to be overcome rather than a worldview to be debated?
I would like to hear from my own university (ASU) what concrete steps it is taking to protect conservative Christian students. Will it continue to platform anti-Christian hostility as part of its official curriculum? Will it continue to reward faculty who openly embrace ideologies that define Christianity as inherently unjust or violent?
“Free Speech” Is Not a Blank Check for a State Job
Predictably, Marxist professors will respond: This is our free speech.
But that argument is a category mistake.
Free speech protects the right to speak, argue, publish, debate, and persuade. It does not guarantee anyone a taxpayer-funded job. It does not entitle ideological activism to institutional protection. And it certainly does not override contractual obligations.
Faculty at state universities like ASU sign contracts promising to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Arizona Constitution. Professors who openly embrace Marxism—a worldview explicitly hostile to constitutional government—have violated that promise and broken their contract.
Universities already enforce ideological and ethical standards when it suits them. They remove faculty for speech deemed harmful, unprofessional, or inconsistent with institutional values. The claim that enforcement suddenly becomes impossible when Christianity is the target is simply false. ASU should enforce its bylaws with equity.
How Bad Does It Have to Get?
How many conservative student leaders must be harassed, threatened, or killed before universities enforce their own bylaws?
How much institutional hostility must be normalized before administrators admit that they helped create a climate where violence became thinkable?
Universities like ASU pride themselves on ethics policies, diversity statements, and commitments to student safety. Those commitments must apply to conservative Christian students too—not just on paper, but in practice.
Protect Our Students
This is not about silencing debate. I’ll debate any ASU professor in public on this matter. I’ll let them go first and make sure they get the time to explain their view.
It is about stopping institutionalized hatred.
It is about enforcing contracts, standards, and laws.
It is about protecting students who have been systematically marginalized and dehumanized under the guise of “progress.”
Universities helped create this environment.
Now they have a moral obligation to confront it.
Protect our students.
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