A Michigan State professor who serves on Donald Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Committee is facing the wrath of his liberal students at the Lansing university.
Joseph Guzman is a trusted Trump adviser, helping to shape the Republican candidate’s immigration policy and Trump’s messaging for Hispanic voters. He also serves as the Trump campaign co-chair in Michigan, and was given the honor of sitting behind the candidate at a recent Trump rally.
When MSU’s left-leaning students saw him on television, they decided to wage a war to embarrass and discredit the professor, who leads the school’s Latino Studies Program. They pasted fliers across campus calling Guzman a traitor, accusing him of “cheering a fascist oligarch,” and of supporting “unfair and unequal” treatment of Hispanics.
The “student testimony” at the bottom claims that Guzman “talks about nonsense” in his classes, and that students will “learn nothing” from his class.
Trump has, of course, made some controversial proclamations about immigration, and champions not just building a wall on the Mexican-American border, but also, occasionally, the en masse deportation of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America.
Guzman told a western Michigan political blog that he’s also faced bullying from students online and in social media. “The First Amendment protects freedom of expression and association, particularly in the civic realm,” Guzman said in an interview with West Michigan Politics. “It’s unfortunate some think that civic activity involves suppressing other individuals right to free speech with lies, smears and disruption.”
“Social justice” activism is nothing new to Michigan State. The school was the site of an anti-Gamergate-style conference designed to address issues of “racism and sexism” in gaming. The personal bullying of a professor, however, is new.