Jemma DeCristo and Joshua Clover shielded by UC Davis
Statues of Karl Marx, left, and Friedrich Engels brave a snow flurry in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. Marx and Engels are the authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and the founders of Marxism. Karl Marx also wrote Das Kapital. Of course I don’t mean either of those two things.
The news report also found an interview where Clover answered a generic question about the problem with society by saying: “People think that cops need to be reformed. They need to be killed.” Kirk has made deplorable comments in the past, but not any more deplorable than the comments of DeCristo and Clover. Regardless, Kirk’s campus appearances drew violent protests from students.Clover, who still works at the university, argued in the student newspaper that Kirk should not be welcomed on campus, going so far as to call Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA, a group of “Hitler enjoyers.
And while reprehensible language is reprehensible no matter the speaker, it seems to me that it’s far worse for professors with hateful ideologies, who have regular access to students and hold positions of power over them, than to have one speaker come for a few hours.
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