Speaker Promoting White Supremacy Coming to Colorado Mesa University

The “free speech” debate on college campuses around the U.S. is coming to Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction.

University officials are facing calls to cancel a controversial speaker, Jared Taylor, who was invited to speak to the school’s new Western Culture Club.

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CMU President John Marshall told 9NEWS that campus leaders do not have input into who student clubs invite to speak and have never rejected a speaker before. {snip}

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Marshall said the university is advocating for a counter-event to promote dignity, love and resiliency.

“As it turns out, racist, backward, retrograde ideas are not hard to beat,” Marshall said. “They’re easy to defeat if we allow just a little bit of discussion to work through exactly why they’re so wrong. But canceling, censoring, silencing, actually takes those ideas, pushes them into the underground and lets them metastasize.”

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