The Double Standard Conservative Students Say They Face on Campus
Showing 5 Conservative Activists videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.
Charlie Kirk warns college conservatives that they're held to a standard their opponents aren't, arguing that a joke or an offhand text message can be weaponized against a conservative student in ways it wouldn't be against a liberal one, and that the goal of some activists is to find any pretext to end a conservative's reputation rather than to debate ideas. A compilation of documented cases shows the opposite dynamic playing out with real legal consequences: an Illinois State University teaching assistant who flipped Turning Point USA tables and threatened Donald Trump, and a state senator who keyed a car over a bumper sticker, both faced arrests and felony charges after video evidence surfaced. Kirk separately discusses an assault on a Turning Point USA activist at UC Berkeley by someone not affiliated with the university, noting that a campus staff member publicly praised the attack on social media, and recalls being run out of a Philadelphia cafe alongside Candace Owens by Antifa protesters as an earlier example of the same pattern of hostility toward conservative organizers.