they faced repeated and intense backlash from some professors and students <\/p>\n
So many progressives dont even seem to understand what Libertarians believe. If they did, more college students would probably be Libertarians. <\/p>\n
The College Fix reports: <\/p>\n
Students launch libertarian club at small Oregon college and get harassed, investigated, condemned <\/p>\n
All they wanted to do was promote free speech and intellectual diversity. Instead their activities were condemned and shut down by professors and students. <\/p>\n
So say members of the Young Americans for Liberty campus club at Linfield College, who tell The College Fix their efforts were stifled and stymied through fear and intimidation, administrative power, and student hysteria at their small school in McMinnville, Ore. <\/p>\n
The liberty-loving students say they faced repeated and intense backlash from some professors and students after launching their club this past spring mostly notably their event with controversial Professor Jordan Peterson was canceled by campus leaders. Peterson is the University of Toronto psychologist recently famous for his opposition to the requirement of made-up gender pronouns. <\/p>\n
The student group was also investigated for circulating a free speech ball on which someone drew Pepe the Frog, the unofficial alt-right mascot. After an investigation, during which YAL leaders were called in and interrogated, the student who drew the image was forced to write a conciliatory essay. <\/p>\n
Another of their events, a screening of The Red Pill, a documentary on mens rights activists and critical of the contemporary feminist movement, drew even more ire from campus leaders, with one even likening the libertarian students events to terrorism recruitment. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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