Heather Mac Donald in City Journal:

https://www.city-journal.org/article/ch ... h-violence

On August 31, 2025, a Change.org petition titled “Stop Charlie Kirk From Spreading Hate on Utah Campuses” started circulating. Motivated by Kirk’s upcoming appearances at Utah Valley University and Utah State University, the petition embraced the equations favored by student narcissists everywhere when those students seek to censor and exclude:

Proposition one: speech that challenges campus orthodoxies is “hate speech.”

Proposition two: people who disagree with campus orthodoxies are “haters.”

Proposition three: “hate speech” and “haters” cause harm.

Proposition four: because of that harm, “hate speech” and “haters” should be silenced, stigmatized, and excluded from college campuses and other citadels of tolerant, inclusive culture.

Kirk’s presence on campus would be a “threat to the inclusive, respectful environment that our campuses are supposed to represent.”

Universities have a “responsibility to protect students from harassment, hostility, and the legitimization of hate under the banner of ‘debate.’”

“When speakers with a record of targeting marginalized groups are given the microphone, the result isn’t dialogue—it’s harm.”

Were Utah Valley University and Utah State University to allow Kirk to speak, they would be “endorsing rhetoric that directly undermines their stated commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

These hothouse phrases are usually associated with the denizens of the Ivy League and other selective colleges, but the ideology of totalitarian safetyism has spread to every college campus that is not explicitly and militantly countercultural—including, it would seem, Utah Valley University.

They don’t call you a hater because you hate, they call you a hater because you challenge their orthodoxies. And so they would make the government a Hobbesian Leviathan: a State where the government is a totalitarian guardian of “safety” whatever the government decides that to be. This would maintain peace within society. That is the essence of the Hobbesian Leviathan.

Totalitarianism in the name of public safety though isn’t the real motive of these people. The real motive underlying all the rationalizations for such a “public safety” State is a very base motive: these people’s desire to rule over the rest of society, to make everyone else their subject.

All the rationalizations of the Left can be reduced to this very ugly base motive: the desire to rule over a subservient society and make of themselves Kings in fact, if not in name.

I make this claim because this is where this would lead. This is where the Leftist project unhindered always leads. That is no accident. It is the ugly motive beneath all the ideology.

It's apparent that sending your kids to a university will universally ruin them...