Do you support Donald Trump? Student activists at the University of Kansas claim that if you do, then you’re susceptible to becoming a neo-Nazi.
Terms like “Make America Great Again” and “Men’s Rights Activist” are inoffensive to anyone but the most hypersensitive.
In true form, fliers have appeared at the campus declaring that such terms are coded neo-Nazi language, and must be cut down and called out wherever they’re spotted.
The posters urge students on campus to remove any offending materials, declaring them fascist propaganda in the form of “coded language”.
The fliers, obtained by Campus Reform, were found in a learning hall with the header “Resist”, a term used by anti-government activists to challenge the presidency of Donald Trump.
Yesterday protesters in Washington, D.C., hung a huge banner bearing the term from a crane near the White House.
The Kansas document alleges that neo-Nazis and far-right hate groups have been recruiting at the university.
“Given the violent and dangerous nature of groups such as this, it is imperative that we do not allow their presence to become normative,” it says. “In order to prevent the assimilation of hate groups into our communities we must be cognizant of their presence and of their tactics.”
The flier goes on to state that far-right hate groups “will use coded language to avoid being called what they are”, and lists the innocuous terms as well as “dissident right”, and “alternative truth/facts” as examples of coded language.
Curiously, the flier also includes the term “anarcho-capitalist”. Anarcho-capitalism, or ancap, is a political philosophy that deems the State an unnecessary evil that needs to be abolished.
Students at the University of Kansas who’ve expressed skepticism or opposition to the “safe spaces” of the progressive left are also mentioned in the fliers as enemies of mankind.
“Opponents of safe-spaces, inclusivity, social justice, intersectional activism, and multiculturalism are opponents of liberation and equality for all people,” the flier states. “Furthermore, they are most susceptible to being recruited by neo-Nazi and other hate groups.”
“In order to protect those who are at risk you must speak up against, report, and hold people accountable for discriminatory acts, hateful rhetoric, supremacist propaganda, harassment, and exclusionary practices.”
Meritocracy is, per ideologues on the far-left, an exclusionary practice.
The back of the flier goes on to criticize Donald Trump administration and provides advice on how to “help stop dangerous and unqualified cabinet picks from being confirmed”, and concludes with a quote from Desmond Tutu to say that political inaction is the same as choosing the side of the oppressor.
As with all opinions on campus, the fliers can and should be protected under free speech, but it’s clear that its creators do not feel the same way about any dissenting voices. After all, they’re advocating for the suppression of speech.
Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter and on Facebook.
