"The fact that the flyers for the John Brown Club were posted and allowed to remain for two days — while the entire community walked past them — suggests that the university’s ideological intimidation has chilled speech sufficiently so that no one, except for the courageous Shae McInniss, felt compelled to do anything about them."
"While Georgetown University administrators should be lauded for removing the violence-promoting recruiting flyers that were posted throughout the Catholic campus for the ANTIFA-affiliated John Brown Club, it is important to determine how the hateful flyers were allowed to be posted on buildings and bulletin boards in the first place. Carrying the slogan “Hey Fascist, Catch This!” along with a recruitment QR code, Georgetown students, staff, and faculty were confronted with the flyers as they walked through campus last week.
"Emerging on September 24th on flyer boards in Village A, a Georgetown student housing complex, the second wave was posted in broad daylight the next day on campus activity boards and public posting areas throughout “Red Square,” the Georgetown University central free speech area on campus. Obviously fearful of retaliation for attempting to remove the violence-promoting posters on a campus that has stifled the speech of many conservative students for decades, no one attempted to remove the hateful posters until sophomore student Shae McInnis, Treasurer of the Georgetown College Republicans, discovered the posters and reported them to university authorities.
"Describing the posters as threatening and explicitly referencing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, McInnis stated that the flyers were a “direct threat to conservative students” and called attention to their violent rhetoric, including slogans such as “Hey fascist! Catch!” The posters proclaimed themselves to be the “only political group that celebrates when Nazis die.” . . . More...
Charlie Kirk: A Conservative Advocate, Not a Fascist
. . . "However, a close examination of Kirk's positions through established academic and scholarly definitions of fascism reveals a different picture. Far from embodying fascist ideology, Kirk's advocacy aligned more closely with classical liberalism, libertarianism, and conservative populism, emphasizing limited government, free markets, and individual liberties. This analysis draws on key definitions from academic scholarship and economists Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek to demonstrate why Kirk did not fit the fascist mold."
