Students blocked Maoist China survivor from giving speech; she gave it off-campus instead | The College Fix

Students blocked Maoist China survivor from giving speech; she gave it off-campus instead | The College Fix - MAGGIE KELLY - ASSISTANT EDITOR

"...A Chinese immigrant who survived Mao’s Communist regime spoke off campus in Spokane, Washington, a few weeks after the Whitworth University student government rejected a proposal to bring her to the college, alleging her speech would be “harmful.”
The Associated Students of Whitworth University had voted 9 to 4 against hosting the speaker, Xi Van Fleet, at its April 12 meeting, Campus Reform reported.
With that, Van Fleet was forced to give the speech at a different venue.

“Last night I spoke off Whitworth campus on Marxist Cultural Revolutions,” Van Fleet tweeted Friday. “I want to express my deep appreciation for all those who attended the event including Whitworth Turning Point chapter members, professors, parents, & local residents.”
“In a time when free speech is under assault, it takes courage to show up to listen to a speaker with ‘incorrect & harmful’ views,” she tweeted. “You are the true defenders of free speech!”...