April 11, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Slightly Offens*ve INFILTRATES A Protest Against Slightly Offens*ve
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XADXjItlcGk
Uploader: Slightly Offens*ve
And as one of the speakers for tonight, I want to say...
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Grab a sign.
Grab a sign.
We are going there, come on, so.
So, alright, we're going to start with a good simple one that y'all can do.
So just follow along and join along with the people united will never be divided.
People united will never be divided.
The people united will never be divided.
The people united will never be divided.
We are here because we do not agree with their hateful rhetoric.
We do not agree with the fact that they have people in their leadership at the national level who have basically supported neo-Nazi policies and rhetoric, and that does not belong on our campus.
That does not belong in our state.
That does not belong in our country.
And so we're here exercising our free speech.
We are exercising our right to say we do not agree with that.
And we are exercising our rights to say that they should not have gotten that $3,000 of student-dollar money in order to bring free people here that does not add to the educational benefit of us, our student body.
Say it loud, say it clear.
Immigrants are welcome here.
Say it loud, say it clear.
Immigrants are welcome here.
Say it loud, say it clear.
Immigrants are welcome here.
We want to make sure they hear us up in that room.
They have just that thin level of glass right there, and we want them to hear it the whole dang time.
That's what we're here for.
You know, I came here because I thought that, you know, if they didn't have somebody saying that they didn't or they shouldn't have been here, then a lot of people and a lot of students on this campus who don't feel comfortable here would not feel like they can actually walk around on this campus from day to day and feel like they are supported.
We have campus carry policies, which allow students to have guns on this campus.
And when we have hateful rhetoric coming from certain students, then students of color, women, we have students from the LGT community.
All of these students who are feeling the hate of this rhetoric do not feel comfortable walking day to day on this campus because students are able to have a gun on campus in our classrooms and places where they go on a daily basis and that is not okay.
And so we're here to say enough is enough and that we are here to support those students.
And so show me what democracy looks like.
This is what democracy looks like.
One, two, three, four.
Quality is what we're fighting for.
Five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four.
Quality is what we're fighting for.
Five, six, seven, eight.
The bigotry and the hate.
One, two, three, four, equality is what we're fighting for.
Five, six, seven, eight.
I have the bigotry and the hate.
We'll get better as the night goes on.
We'll get better at this.
What?
Those are the guys speaking tonight behind us.
Yeah, they don't look.
They don't look harmful.
They're on camera, we're good, we're on camera.
They're not going to.
And he's got a yellow vest on, so he can't get fired.
Alright.
I'd be remiss if I didn't give a platform to at least people from the administration who came here to support us, came here to observe what we are doing.
I support you.
I appreciate your efforts.
I appreciate your words.
Does anybody else want to share some thoughts with the group?
Maybe talk about why they came here today?
I have a question.
What is the message that they are delivering?
I'm just not informed about all this.
So basically, if you want more information on what they are doing, you can go there.
What we are here is to talk about a more positive, supportive message for students in our community here.
I was hearing that was, you know, I was roped into it by hearing it's about mostly free speech, but that's why I plan on going myself.
But, you know, seeing how the talk itself goes, I might end up joining you guys.
Or if it's more focused on the actual aspect of free speech.
Because the way that I see it, people who, when ideas are allowed to be expressed freely and openly, the bad ideas are just going to be not taken seriously at the end of the day.
But when it does appeal to that more emotional side of things, to where people get real wild up over their opinions that might be based on bigotry and hate, that's where I start to disagree.
But if it's mostly just about expressing opinions, survival of the fitness, the best opinion will eventually win.
One thing that we stand against here is when groups like Turning Point USA talk about free speech, what they're really talking about is they want to be able to say hate speech.
They want to be able to say whatever they want on college campuses.
And no matter if that affects our students of color, our students from the LGBT community, whatnot.
And so what we're doing is saying that that speech does not belong on our campus.
That speech makes students feel uncomfortable because of their identities, because of their race, because of where they are from.
And it makes them feel unsafe.
Then it gets to a point where that does not belong on our campus.
First of all, honestly, f ⁇ white supremacy and f ⁇ fascism, honestly.
And I gotta say there's no room for hate speech on this campus.
And I want to let you guys all know that we got a lot of people staring at us around here.
And I want to say, I'm going to give you a chance.
Everybody standing here, do you denounce bigotry?
Do you actually, with that Keep America Great again hat, with, you can wear that in public, and you can just say that.
Can you say that?
Can you say f ⁇ white supremacy?
I hate to repeat your message a lot.
You're saying quite frankly, but we're trying to not.
I'm going to positive.
We're just saying this.
So I'm saying this is that you guys, in the end, I stand against all this.
And as one of the speakers for tonight, I want to say that there's a misconception because sometimes people put a beanie on their face and they walk out and you read things and you think people are a certain way.
And I applaud you guys for protesting.
But I think that the conversations that we need to have are not based off of taking Twitter feeds out of context.
It's not based off of me looking at your feed, you looking at my feed.
Okay, you just said that right now, too, so I could take you out of context and just say, well, you just said the same thing.
You just said the thing about Hitler.
So one thing is when we heard that student dollars pointed to this, a bunch of students on Twitter decided to speak out against this.
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They decided to say that we do not agree with this, we do not approve of this, and that we believe that a hateful organization such as Turning Point USA shouldn't have gotten that money.
In response, several students here at this university were quote-tweeted by at least one of the speakers here today.
So I do believe that if we are going to have peaceful conversations and very respectful conversations, we have to first call out the people amongst our own communities who are not following up to the values that we want ourselves to follow.
So if Turning Point is serious about respecting our right to free speech, then they should be serious about making sure that at these events, all students feel comfortable coming to speak out.
Because if students are not comfortable and don't feel safe coming here, then that's not free speech.
Because if they can't exercise their free speech because they feel afraid of coming, then that is not right.
You guys could have let this happen with no issues, but you come to make us feel unsafe.
You set a line of people up out here who oppose the views to say, we're going to yell at you guys, and we're going to say that we know who you are, which is stereotyping.
It's profiling.
It's very bad to assume that.
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I'm not going to be able to see here.
And no one's done anything to make anyone feel uncomfortable.
If someone's uncomfortable because of that or before that, I can understand, I can sympathize.
We're not here to be aggressive and make people feel sad or excluded.
This is your guys' event outside of our event.
No one here is pushing any sort of hate or nothing but love from our end that I can see.
If somebody harassed, if you openly posted something online criticizing someone, and then you're calling it harassment of people coming back and rebuttaling you, that just makes you kind of a weak person.
You didn't just sit there and they came and harassed you.
You open on an open platform, let your free speech be known, and free speech doesn't come at no cost.
It comes to allow people to come back against you.
Now, I would never ever, if anybody said anything that is extremely hurtful or mean or out of context, yes, I condemn that.
But if you're going to come out and condemn a group and start talking about that, you know, insinuating through chance, like immigrants are welcome here, is if we don't allow immigrants when one of the speakers' wife is literally an immigrant and it's like, well, that's not the same thing.
Yes, it literally is the same thing.
So it's like you looking at this from a bigoted perspective, and I believe you're all good people, and I think that you mean good, but I don't think we're your enemies.
I don't think that we're the people you should be going up against.
We're not hiding anything.
We're open about this.
And yeah, if anyone's a jerk on Twitter, sorry, I even got someone's gender wrong.
One of your leaders, that was you.
Yeah, I got someone's gender wrong because Riley George.
It's like, but I realize, oh, shoot, I said it was a guy because it's two guy names.
Well, I didn't read your bio.
I just responded to your tweet.
So the thing is, is that that's fine.
And we have misunderstandings and we mess up.
But look, we're here.
Nobody here is causing any issues.
I don't even own a gun.
It's like, what do you think?
I'm violent.
I don't even own a knife.
I don't even own pepper spray.
So it's like, I'm just standing here with my words.
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Students weren't, they didn't feel safe coming to this.
I'm not talking about you three.
They should not bring three people here that does not add to the educational benefit of us, our student body.
Name and name of who is making them feel unsafe apart at Turning Point?
Because you can't monolith it and go, that's the same thing as going, oh, well, it's the same thing that white people did to black people during slavery.
It's bad.
It's stereotyping.
When I was reaching out to students and trying to get them to come to this, I heard from multiple people that they felt anecdotal stories aren't evidence, man.
You're in college.
You should know this.
Give me some proof, some evidence.
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Guys, I'm looking around at every sign I'm seeing.
I don't disagree with any of them except for the ones that say turning point shouldn't be here.
Did you even know that we were a thing before the history of this?
Yeah, because we've been on campus for about six months.
What have we done?
That's so clearly.
See, we're not protesting specific chapters.
We're protesting Turning Point USA as a whole.
And the rhetoric that has come out of the leaders of Turning Point USA and the rhetoric that has come out of people who have been emboldened by Turning Point USA.
