"Don't Be a F*cking Nazi": Antifa, White Supremacists Clash at CSU
On Friday, February 2, a feared confrontation between members of a white supremacist group and Antifa protesters outside a controversial event on the Colorado State University campus came to pass. Although no arrests took place, multiple reports say things got physical between the antagonists, with injuries suffered on both sides.
A post on the Northern Colorado Antifa Collective Facebook page offers this summary: "Cause and effect.... Don't be a fucking Nazi. Not in Fort Collins, not anywhere, the people will not take kindly of you. Thank you all for showing up!"
The two organizations wound up in the same place on Friday thanks to "Smashing Socialism," a 5:30 p.m. talk at CSU's Lory Student Center by Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, a conservative national group that says its mission is "to identify, educate, train and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets and limited government."
As we reported, Turning Point USA tries to portray itself as mainstream. But critics such as CSU student Hank Stowers, who wrote a scathing op-ed published by the Rocky Mountain Collegian, CSU's student newspaper, which has done a stellar job of covering the tale, charges the outfit with having a "history of condoning misogyny and rape apologia in Colorado." In his view, this philosophy has a corollary in the approach of the Traditionalist Worker Party, which has been identified as a hate group fueled by white-supremacist views. Stowers accuses them of harboring "similar doctrines of inequality, separatism and hatred."
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