By Jasu Diaz —
A conservative Colorado State University student was harassed by a visibly agitated and potentially violent protester when he was trying to chalk Bible verses on the plaza before Thanksgiving.
Blake Jones, of the campus Turning Point USA chapter, wished to engage in dialogue anti-ICE protesters — including Students for Justice in Palestine and Young Democratic Socialists of America — when a still-unidentified protester exploded at him.
“What the f— did you just say to me?” Jones recalled him screaming. “He immediately raised his hands, stiffened his body, his face contorted. This is when he charged at me with his fists raised. I do not have a doubt in my mind that he was planning on striking me.”
The incident is under investigation by campus police, who took 25 minutes to show up after being called, Jones said.
In the 1960s, leftist demanded free speech to challenge conservative notions. Now they have effectively taken over academia, and many universities give the aura that they don’t want free speech for conservatives. The incident with Blake Jones is illustrative; a leftist tried to intimidate him and silence him.
“He repeatedly told me to ‘go away, back to my weirdo loser racist friends,’” Jones said. “And he kept telling me to ‘stick that hat right up your a–.’”
Turning Point USA has faced particular difficulty getting authorized and helped with security at some colleges, spokesman Andrew Kolvet: all of the Universities of California, USC and the Ivy League universities. Officials seem to be complicit or cooperative with rioters, he says.
“They’d rather just keep you out than having to deal with the headache of bringing in people that challenge the orthodoxies on those campuses,” Kolvet says.
Things weren’t any better at Colorado State. Jones chalked several Christians messages, but later they were overwritten, from “abortion is murder” to “abortion is awesome,” from “God loves you” to “God loves trans people.”
He chalked a cross on the plaza, and that got changed to transgender Jesus Christ. A Bible verse was changed to a transgender message.
“On our campus Christianity seems to be the only religion people feel comfortable openly mocking,” he said. “I see anti-Christian messages in the plaza every single day, but never anything close to that level directed toward other faiths.”
After being detained by another student, the hostile agitator finally spat on Jones. “I found the blob of spit on the back of my pants, and subsequently went to wash it off and report the incident to authorities,” he said.
Jones reported the assault to police and then returned to his chalk messaging.
“Backing down to these people and giving up is the absolute worst thing you can do,” he said. “They try to intimidate you to force you to back down, to force you to give up, and if we as Christians continue to persevere and spread the message of Christ, that is the only way we will be able to stand up to and beat this offensive, seemingly violent, and seemingly anti-Christian culture.”
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