Leftists Disrupt 'White Supremacist' College Republicans Meeting, Demanding 'Safe Space'

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Unless I've missed a similar example -- which is entirely possible, frankly, given the sheer number of cartoonish and deranged campus disruptions across the country -- this episode from UC Santa Cruz breaks new ground. In this case, leftist agitators aren't shouting down a speaker, assaulting dissenters, rioting in advance of a controversial guest, derailing a free speech-themed discussion, or 'occupying' an event or building while shrieking demands at administrators. No, they're laying siege to a College Republicans meeting, claiming the mere existence of any Republican gathering on campus is "violence," because a room full of "white supremacists" and "Nazis" makes the school's library an 'unsafe' space. The absurdist details, via Campus Reform:

Shortly after the CR meeting convened, one student entered the ground floor room of McHenry Library to ask attendees which group was assembling. After being informed that the meeting was a gathering of College Republicans, the student returned about 15-20 minutes later with company. One of the ringleaders of the protest was student activist Haik Adamian, who posted an announcement in the official UCSC Student Facebook group calling on students to deny the CR group its First Amendment rights. “White Supremacist, fascist sympathizing College Republicans are having a meeting at McHenry library, room 0332. Everybody be aware of this violent racist activity happening everyday on this campus!” he wrote, adding that “We need a movement of people on this campus that rejects the ‘right of assembly,’ or ‘right of free speech’ for white supremacists and fascists.” Heeding Adamian’s call, student activists disrupted the meeting by banging open the door to the meeting space and shouting accusations that the members were “fascists,” “racists,” and “white supremacists.” According to the UCSC College Republicans, their offers to discuss the concerns of the protesters were met with exclamations that “dialogue is violence,” after which the protesters called the club’s presence a “threat to the library” and demanded that the CR members vacate the space immediately.

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