LA County for Trump rocked it at UCLA earlier this week.
We took on college students of all backgrounds, including the more militant, radical socialist ones. Some of them were willing to listen, while others just chanted their hollow, hateful chants.
To their credit, the student newspaper "The Daily Bruin" provided a pretty accurate write-up of what happened.
Here are key sections worth looking over for feed-back and insight.
Tala Deloria, an organizer for Refuse Fascism UCLA, said the group held
the protest because its members think Shapiro’s speech hurts marginalized
communities on campus. She said she thinks Shapiro is xenophobic, racist and
sexist, and added she thinks he has made controversial statements in the past,
including saying that transgender individuals have a mental illness.
Transgenderism is a mental illness. That is not hateful or bigoted. It's a biological fact.
How can the statements of one person marginalize one person or an entire group of people? The lacking of thinking is just crazy.
Henry DeGroot, a fourth-year political science student and organizer
with Socialist Students UCLA said the group organized the protest to
demonstrate that most students do not agree with Shapiro’s rhetoric. DeGroot
added he thinks UCLA broke with campus policy in paying for the event’s
security costs after facing pressure from Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative
legal organization.
They don't agree with Shapiro's rhetoric, and therefore they want to shut him down? How does that make any sense? What better way to discredit a series of ideas than to allow someone to speak those ideas, then dismantle them one by one?
“This is not really just about one small chapter of Bruin Republicans.
It’s about the whole right-wing establishment organizing a cultural war on
campuses,” DeGroot said. “We’re here to say that this is coming from the outside,
that most students don’t support this and that most students are calling for
progressive values, not for anti-gay bigotry.”
Attendees also included counter-protesters and individuals observing the
event.
YES!
Carol Cruz, the vice president of College Republicans at Pierce
College, brought her group to the protest to interact with and learn from the
protesters.
YES! This kind of interaction is integral to making America Great Again.
“I think that it’s great that people are exercising their right to
protest. But I do feel a bit concerned that a lot of (Shapiro’s) quotes are
taken out of context,” Cruz said. “As someone who listens to all of Ben
Shapiro’s podcasts, I can tell you there are a few words to those sentences
that would change the meanings.”
Several individuals who said they supported Shapiro and wore “Make
America Great Again” hats got in arguments with the protesters. Some also
filmed protesters on their phones, and began chanting “show your face” when
students said they did not want to appear on camera.
YEP!
One individual asked the crowd of protesters if they did not like him
because he is white after they yelled profanities at him. Some Shapiro
supporters then told students to go back to their parents’ basements as student
protesters began to leave Bruin Walk.
Fun!
I was probably the one who yelled about being targeted for being white. It is true, though, that white people are being attacked ... just for being white. What do we call that, folks? Racism.
Arthur Schaper, a member of Los Angeles County for Trump, said he
protested to stand up for free speech.
“I’m fed up with kids being indoctrinated with everything like cultural
Marxism,” Schaper said. “(Students think) everything is bad, and people don’t
have a right to speak.”
Accurate reporting all the way.
Final Reflection
I love what our movement is doing now.
Instead of just sitting on the sidelines and letting our American culture lapse into nothing, LA County for Trump and other conservatives around the region and throughout the country are rising up and fighting back against this cultural Marxist hatred of our country.
We refuse to be silent, and we refuse to allow a small yet diligent minority of hatemongers tear down our country and force us onto the Road to Serfdom.
We will not quit. We will not relent.
To our wonderful surprise, we have found that more young people are listening to what we have to say, and many of the means as well as the message for communicating, I have learned from conservative speakers and commentators like Ben Shapiro.
But the new challenge is to stop inviting them to meetings in a hall or meeting room.
We need to meet the college students and the public at large to get their viewpoints and then challenge their views.
