Radical left rhetoric on campus has consequences

Aimed at Trump

I have been documenting the ways that some faculty and schools at ASU talk about conservatives and Christians. ASU continues to require all employees to take DEI training that spends time on the problems of “whiteness” and “heteronormativity.” This rhetoric relies on race blame and although it claims to want inclusion it causes divisions. Whatever its intentions, it promotes a narrative of suspicion and conflict.

I have been in faculty meetings where Trump and Republicans are spoken of in degrading ways. The faculty assume that everyone in the room shares their opinions and that they are free to speak in derogatory manners about politicians they disagree with. They feel free to liken conservatives to fascists.

Below is an example of that kind of rhetoric at an ASU event that vilified President Trump. You will not see similar events about Presidents Obama or Biden. The vitriol is reserved for Trump. I have heard faculty say that Trump represents white supremacy.

What happens when faculty speak this way? Although they claim to want to uphold the values of diversity and inclusion this rhetoric divides people. A large percentage of ASU students are conservatives who voted for Trump. They have the right to a university education free from political discrimination aimed at conservatives.

The radical left has spent years asserting that Trump is a threat to democracy and likening him to Hitler. That kind of hateful rhetoric has consequences. The threat to democracy is when reasoned debate ends and is replaced with the kind of hate we see from such radical professors.

We must return to expecting professors to use reason to form sound arguments. The university is not their personal playground where they can vent fallacious arguments and hate-filled rhetoric. All forms of race blame, religious discrimination, and demonizing conservatives, must end. I will continue to shine a light on this shameful behavior at ASU.