Last night, contributors Stephen Davis and Anthony Watson traveled to the University of Oregon to speak to students about the conservative values that TPUSA continually fights for. But what was supposed to be a civil discussion temporarily turned hostile as Antifa members disrupted the event.
Several Antifa members wearing masks and dressed in all black began to heckle Davis and Watson. In the video below, one Antifa member explains that he disagrees with what is being said at the event, but he was in attendance to “distract” from what was being spoken. He also accused Davis of “actively making the world unsafe.”
After several minutes of heckling, Antifa members were asked by campus police to walk out of the classroom so that the event could continue. As they were leaving, one Antifa member complained, “this is what fascism looks like.”
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Prior to this incident, journalist Andy Ngo tweeted out several warnings that members of Antifa were planning on disrupting the event on campus. Ngo tweeted out numerous messages from Antifa members that were calling on their fellow members to protest David and Watson’s speeches. But shortly after posting this information, Ngo was locked out of his Twitter account with no explanation from the tech platform. Ngo’s tweets were automatically removed, and Twitter gave him an unspecific notification that he had violated their guidelines.
One Antifa post shared by Ngo was a graphic that included specific guidelines for protestors who were going to the University of Oregon to disrupt the event. The graphic, labeled “fascist scum off our campus,” advised protestors to wear black, leave their phones at home, and to “become ungovernable.” It also stated that their goals were to “be a nuisance,” “prevent them from spreading hate,” and “bash the fash.”
The radical left loves to accuse TPUSA (and conservatives as a whole) as fascist. But if they were to stop and analyze their own actions, they would see that their actions are right in line with the common practices of actual fascist governments. The Antifa members who showed up to the TPUSA chapter event believed that they were entitled to shut down the meeting and silence the voices who were speaking simply because something was being said that they disagree with. Is this not one of the most common practices of any fascist regime? Perhaps these protestors will finally realize their own hypocrisy, but it is high unlikely.
