On September 24, flyers were discovered on a bulletin board on the campus of Georgetown University celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. A group calling itself the Georgetown John Brown Gun Club, a far-left group, is linked to the flyers. It is unclear whether this is a registered club at Georgetown University.
The university has condemned the flyers and is investigating, along with appropriate law enforcement officials.
Here is how the campus newspaper, The Hoya, is reporting the incident. In addition, this article in The Hoya is reporting threatening notes against "lefties" and referencing the KKK that were discovered on campus around midnight on September 27.
Obviously, both messages are to be condemned. Like far too many universities, Georgetown University has not been immune to discord and extremist thinking. The Kirk assassination has brought the problem of political violence on our college campuses to a whole new level, and these sick messages only underline that fact.
This is a cancer in our universities that has been growing and festering for decades and has now reached its nadir with the assassination of Kirk at Utah Valley University. Tolerated by weak-kneed administrators and egged on by radical professors, far too many of our institutions of higher learning, predominantly our most prestigious, have been infected by this sick counterculture. Somehow, it has to be reversed, and now more than ever, it is a time for everyone concerned in academia, including students, to do some self-reflection and reevaluate what a university is supposed to be. Is it supposed to be a center of resistance to the "establishment", a place to protest against all the ills of the world, a place to train the next generation of activists, or a place to educate as opposed to indoctrinate?
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