Another day, another instance of outrage from DePaul University’s band of leftists. Today’s outrage? The audacity for DePaul’s Turning Point USA chapter to invite James Kirchick for an event titled “Dictatorships and Radical Islam: Enemies of LGBTQ Rights.” An individual going by the name of “MK Okay” on Facebook wrote the following post regarding Kirchick’s appearance:
DEPAUL QUEER AND TRANS FAMILY :: Milo2.0 (ok Milo .5 – he’s not alt-right, which makes this harder) is happening tomorrow at 5:30.
“Turning point DePaul” (check out that horror below, is bringing James [Kirchick], a white, Zionist, neoliberal journalist, to speak on shit he knows nothing about: “Dictatorships and Islam: Enemies of LGBTQ Rights.”
IF [YOU] FEEL SAFE DOING THIS: we will be turning up to counter, and I invite and ask you to join. We need to be visible and present. Not in our f**king name will you pretend to define our safety, where danger comes from. Not in our f**king name will you continue to demonize Islam and Muslims and ignore the radical Christian right. Because we all know & see what the real danger here is — and we all know & see how this is f**ked. I will be making signs in the atrium of the stu today during [Students for Jewish Persecution’s] event, so come chat if you want to…
Interestingly, Kirchick himself noticed something peculiar about this anonymous student’s post:
Here’s the call for protests of my talk tonight at @DePaulU “Dictatorships and Radical Islam: Enemies of LGBTQ Rights.” Notice missing word? pic.twitter.com/zgesx9zSuJ
— Jamie Kirchick (@jkirchick) May 10, 2017
Indeed, this student omitted the word “radical” before Islam in the event title. Of course, this makes sense because radical leftists like this individual are Islamophobic enough to blend fascistic and genocidal radical Islamists with every other practitioner of Islam who does not subscribe to the same regressive beliefs. This is a typical leftist tactic that attempts to paint anyone who criticizes radical Islam as a Muslim basher instead of being able to think critically on complicated issues.