Right Leaning Students Shunned from ‘Diversity’ Event at UNC-Chapel Hill
Not only were conservative and libertarian student groups not invited to the event, they weren’t even told about it.
Way to be inclusive, UNC.
Michael Cipriano of the College Fix reports.
Republicans, pro-lifers, libertarians shunned from university’s ‘diversity’ event
The leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill has made it clear that it supports diversity on its campus – as long as you agree with it politically, that is.
Chancellor Carol Folt, Vice Chancellor Winston Crisp and the Student Advisory Committee to the chancellor co-hosted a dinner with 40 student leaders from student organizations across the campus last week to discuss diversity and the school’s future.
But not a single conservative student group was invited to voice an opinion.
In fact, right-leaning organizations including the UNC College Republicans, Carolina Students for Life, UNC Young Americans for Liberty, the Tar Heel Rifle and Pistol Club, and Christians United For Israel were not even aware of the dinner until the Daily Tar Heel wrote an article about it the next day.
Frank Pray, College Republican chairman and editor-in-chief of the Carolina Review, a conservative campus publication, told The College Fix that these groups were angered that they were left off the guest list.
“We were just fed up when we heard about this from the Daily Tar Heel,” Pray said. “We never would have found out if they didn’t publish an article about it.”
Students in attendance included those representing the Muslim, Latino and Black student populations and Greek life.
Alex Johnson, chairwoman of UNC Young Americans for Liberty, a campus libertarian club, said she was “extremely disappointed” the university did not include all types of voices at the dinner.
“It seems to me that only one type of political perspective is being included or recognized on campus while the student body, itself, is actually quite diverse in opinions,” Johnson said, according to the Carolina Review.
But this is not the first time conservative students have been subjected to this kind of treatment on campus. Peter McClelland, chairman emeritus of the UNC College Republicans and current chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans of North Carolina, said it is the norm for right-leaning groups to be excluded from these conversations.
Republicans, pro-lifers, libertarians shunned from university’s ‘diversity’ event (The College Fix)
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