Campus Activism in the Wake of Charlie Kirk's Murder

Dr. Wolf von Laer and Sean Themea join Nick Gillespie to discuss how Kirk’s murder is reshaping student activism and where libertarian ideas fit in today’s campus climate.

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Campus Activism in the Wake of Charlie Kirk's Murder

Nick Gillespie speaks with Dr. Wolf von Laer of Students for Liberty, and Sean Themea of Young Americans for Liberty about how campus activism may change after the murder of Charlie Kirk. They discuss how the tragedy has affected their organizations, what it means for the future of student organizing, and how libertarian ideas about free expression and individual rights fit in today's campus climates.

• Producer: Paul Alexander
• Audio Mixer: Ian Keyser

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[Rick James]

where libertarian ideas fit in today’s campus climate.

*thinks*

1. Sex work is work.
b) Taxing cars for crossing an internal border, aka "congestion pricing"
III: Not being able to or wanting to define what a woman is.
o Open borders
> The right to camp on the street
Lab Grown meat
tik tok is a human right

I'm sure there are a few others I haven't thought of that would play well on campus... aka "modern audiences".

[Chumby]

Like with Kirk, the pomod trantifa types would rifle through the list of possible responses.

[Rick James]

They'd be right on target with a few of them.

[mad.casual]

where libertarian ideas fit in today’s campus climate.

At the bottom of the women's division, just below akitas.

[Rick James]

Oh, yeah, I forgot... although this kind of is a sub category of 'sex work is work':

The Prostitariat seizing the means of production.

[damikesc]

Conservative students have not been free to speak on campuses for decades now.

Where have you been?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Purposeful ignorance.

[Chumby]

He’s been masturbating to it, wearing only his jacket.

[mad.casual]

Wait, you mean the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education didn't purify the education system of blatant and systemic (anti-)Constitutional bias, and then rebrand as the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression to carry the fight onward? That they more or less left the education system as it was and simply widened their customer base to chase a larger pool of ambulances? I can't believe such a principled group of activist lawyers would do such a thing.

[Uncle Jay]

True, but what did you expect from professors who are cheerleaders for failed Marxist ideas, free speech?

[Riva]

It wasn’t just a “murder.” It was a political assassination.