A Turning Point USA Club America chapter president at Henry M. Jackson High School is facing aggressive and hateful backlash from students for starting and leading a chapter on campus.
The student, Geonwoo Lee, has said publicly that he is being compared to Adolf Hitler and other dictators for his affiliation with TPUSA by fellow students online. He has also been attacked with slurs based on his asian ethnicity.
“I had a Google doc form linked on my Turning Point USA Instagram account allowing for people who wanted to become officers to apply,” Lee told the Jason Rantz Show. “And that just got flooded and flooded with trolls, with spam comparing me to people like Hitler and Mao Zedong and Kim Jong Un.”
Lee also told Rantz that “one of the students came up to the car with a Mexican flag, waving it directly at the window. They ended up hitting my car, and the police officer had to get involved.”
Lee and his family were “one ICE report from being taken away,” other students threatened.
On Friday, Lee and fellow chapter member Michael Reihing appeared on Fox and Friends First to further elaborate on his recent experiences. Lee said that “within 24 hours,” of launching a TPUSA chapter,” anonymous hate pages began appearing online.”
Lee also mentioned how multiple hate pages were made about him and how they “weaponized my ethnicity against me.”
The chapter president finished his segment by noting that Charlie Kirk has been a massive influence to him in life, saying he is committed to the mission of dialoguing with opposite-minded students in the manner of the late Founder of Turning Point USA.
