The Columbia University student government recently voted to report the school's College Republicans chapter to the Student Conduct Office for hosting conservative speakers such as Tommy Robinson and Mike Cernovich.
CR President Ari Boosalis called the move an effort to prosecute "thought crime," saying, “They want to silence the speech of anyone who's Christian, conservative, who believes in free market values.”
“They want to silence the speech of anyone who's Christian, conservative, who believes in free market values.”
The Columbia University College Republicans are under investigation after student government officials voted Sunday to report the group to the Student Conduct Office.
In a resolution passed Sunday night, the Columbia College Student Council voted to file a discrimination and harassment report against CUCR, citing the group’s invitation of conservative speakers such as Tommy Robinson and Mike Cernovich.
The resolution was made after Columbia student Braxton Gutner, leader of the school’s Black Students Organization, came to the meeting to call for CUCR to be defunded.
Gutner urged students to support a petition demanding that Columbia “deem CUCR ineligible to receive [funding],” and to “redistribute” their funding to “self-identified Muslim groups,” and “people of color focused groups.” -- More...
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