"Wednesday saw a moment without precedent in recent history: A college speaker shot to death on a campus during an event. That fact alone would've escalated growing concerns about the future of free speech and civil discourse at colleges and universities. But this speaker was Charlie Kirk, a prominent ally of a U.S. president who was already crusading against higher ed."
""College is a scam," Kirk, who dropped out of Harper College in Illinois, wrote in a 2022 Fox News op-ed, in which he urged most students not to go. "Universities are indoctrination zones where free speech is crushed," he wrote. "Radical students and faculty coerce and persecute their nonconforming peers through 'cancel culture' and threats ... I firmly believe that most-if not all-the destructive ideas that are now eating away at the foundation of American society originated on college campuses.""
Charlie Kirk, founder and leader of Turning Point USA and a prominent conservative political figure, was shot and killed at an event on the Utah Valley University campus. Kirk had campaigned against higher education, called college a scam, urged most students not to attend, and portrayed universities as indoctrination zones that crush free speech. He used campus events, media appearances, a podcast and organizational staff to challenge and target left-leaning faculty and students. The killing occurs amid heightened political attacks on colleges and universities and is likely to increase pressure on higher education and concerns about the future of campus free expression.
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