Some words could trigger a meltdown.
More than 100 social justice warriors from 18 campus organizations united in protest against a wall on Friday, but not the type you’d expect.
Last week, the College Republicans at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo constructed a “Free Speech Wall” on campus to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall, allowing students to scribble messages on it before it was torn down.
The construction of a “Free Speech Wall” is tradition at Cal Poly and has infuriated campus progressives year after year, who believe it provides an unrestricted forum for offensive speech. It was even the impetus behind the formation of a radical progressive group called Solidarity SLO, which protested the appearance of conservatives Milo Yiannopoulos and Lauren Southern last year, and has openly called for the resignation of Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong after he ignored their absurd demands.
One of the protesters, Gabriela Guillen, believes that the College Republicans should have included other campus communities in discussing and planning for the wall. “For that reason, it doesn’t reflect the views of all students,” Guillen told The Tribune.