{"id":2672552,"date":"2026-09-29T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhigher-ed-is-mass-producing-violent-leftists-like-the-ones-who-celebrated-charlie-kirks-murder\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:15:39","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhigher-ed-is-mass-producing-violent-leftists-like-the-ones-who-celebrated-charlie-kirks-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhigher-ed-is-mass-producing-violent-leftists-like-the-ones-who-celebrated-charlie-kirks-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Ed Is Mass-Producing Increasingly Violent Leftists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhigher-ed-is-mass-producing-violent-leftists-like-the-ones-who-celebrated-charlie-kirks-murder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2672552&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An internal controversy at Utah Valley University (UVU) emerged following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in September 2025. A faculty member publicly sent a supportive email urging students to rise above violence, framing Kirk\u2019s death as a profound loss and emphasizing the university\u2019s ideals of diversity and peaceful exchange.However, another faculty member expressed disdain, claiming Kirk\u2019s rhetoric was prejudiced and aimed to manipulate impressionable youth, and urging the university to resist memorializing him, viewing his prominence as incompatible with UVU\u2019s values.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Watch obtained 133 pages of UVU emails revealing a faculty divide: some recognized the importance of free speech, while others condemned Kirk and showed hostility toward his supporters. Critics argued that certain faculty members displayed intolerance, viewing Kirk\u2019s conservative ideas as perilous and divisive. The emails highlight ongoing tensions over free expression on campus, with concerns about a \u201cchilling effect\u201d discouraging conservative students from voicing their opinions and increasing fears of political violence.<\/p>\n<p>The incident underscores broader issues within higher education,including increasing polarization,the rise of extremist beliefs among graduates,and the perceived decline of free speech. Critics argue that some university faculty promote a toxic ideology rooted in Marxist and identity politics, fostering environments where opposing viewpoints are vilified. The murder and subsequent reactions exemplify tensions between free expression and ideological conformity on college campuses, raising questions about the safety and openness of academic environments for conservatives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Less than 24 hours after an assassin extinguished one of the brightest young lights in American conservative thought, a Utah Valley University faculty member sent a supportive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/documents\/utah-valley-univ-charlie-kirk-records-prod-3-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email<\/a> message to students urging them to rise above the violence. <\/p>\n<p>The message, addressed \u201cTo my Students and friends,\u201d summed up the cold-blooded murder of Turning Point USA co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/26\/review-finds-serious-security-flaws-on-the-utah-campus-where-charlie-kirk-was-murdered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charlie Kirk<\/a> at UVU on Sept. 10, 2025 as a \u201clife-altering tragedy for those close to him, obviously.\u201d A profound loss to Kirk\u2019s followers, too, the unidentified professor added.  <\/p>\n<p>And then in flowery prose fitting a liberal arts college professor, the faculty member mused that any violent death is \u201ca loss to humanity and a disruption of human and divine harmonies.\u201d That\u2019s especially true on a university campus because \u201cuniversities are by their very nature to be the safe place for diversity and listening and developing each person\u2019s uniqueness through a peaceful, compassionate, and passionate exchange of viewpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUVU, in particular, stands as a university where we foster individual development and uniqueness,\u201d states the email, a copy of which was apparently sent to then-UVU President Astrid Tuminez. <\/p>\n<p>The message was warmly embraced by the university recipient, who hailed it as \u201csuch a clear, compassionate, and healing message.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Delusional perhaps, but kind to be sure. <\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/judicial-watch-uncovers-anti-charlie-kirk-emails-at-utah-university-following-his-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email<\/a> sent 11 days later from another faculty member wasn\u2019t so compassionate and healing, but it did better reflect how the left-wing collegiate mind views Charlie Kirk and the powerful grassroots conservative movement he created. It reeks of the faculty lounge arrogance and viewpoint intolerance of the leftists who dominate higher education. As Kirk\u2019s murder painfully displayed, these groupthink indoctrination factories are pumping out more \u201cprogressive\u201d extremists more willing to tolerate violence to stop their political foes. <\/p>\n<p>Judicial Watch obtained the emails \u2014 among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/judicial-watch-uncovers-anti-charlie-kirk-emails-at-utah-university-following-his-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">133 pages<\/a> of internal UVU records \u2014 through an open records request. Tom Fitton, president of the conservative government watchdog organization, said the unity university administrators attempted to project was tested by members of UVU faculty who, according to one email, couldn\u2019t \u201cunderstand how people could support or mourn someone\u201d like Charlie Kirk. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018To Shape Minds\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cI am writing out of deep respect for your leadership and concern for the integrity of our university community,\u201d an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/documents\/utah-valley-univ-charlie-kirk-records-prod-3-2026-pgs-42-43\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email<\/a> written by a faculty member begins. The email \u2014 the subject line is \u201cOn Preserving UVU\u2019s Values and Commitment to Students\u201d \u2014 is addressed to Tuminez, although most of the personally identifiable information in the tranche of records is redacted, including the instructor\u2019s name.  <\/p>\n<p>The pompous author asserts Kirk \u201cappealed to the worst of us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe spoke his prejudices openly, not to test free speech, but to shape minds,\u201d the UVU employee insists. Audaciously, the author claims that the 31-year-old conservative leader and Christian evangelist \u201ctargeted impressionable youth, feeding on their fears and anxieties.\u201d Sounds more like a day in the life in the radical workshops of today\u2019s college campuses. <\/p>\n<p>At UVU, the bloviating instructor prattles on, the mission is to \u201ceducate and support young people who will grow into leaders for a more just society.\u201d The higher ed snob turns some atrocious metaphors about dark skies and rain tied to the \u201cvalues we must elevate.\u201d The idea is that conservative Kirk and his ideas challenging leftist orthodoxy, not his assassination \u2014 dying in a pool of his own blood in front of his wife, young children, and the world \u2014 is the dark cloud hovering over the institution. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hidden message in his rants was clear: hate is natural, and to resist it is to deny who you are. Hate masquerading as justice is nothing of the sort. True justice seeks fairness, accountability, and protection for all, while hate targets, divides, and destroys,\u201d the instructor writes, never mentioning the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/01\/judge-rules-tyler-robinson-will-face-trial-for-assassination-of-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hateful leftist<\/a> accused of pulling the trigger of the rifle that took Kirk\u2019s life. <\/p>\n<p>The author implores Tuminez and UVU in general to \u201cresist any effort to memorialize him or turn him into an icon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Kirk was and is an icon to millions of conservatives. But the blowhard instructor preaching the dogma of \u201cequity\u201d and \u201cdiversity\u201d demands UVU murder Kirk\u2019s memory. The author reserves compassion for the \u201cfew who attended the ceremony and witnessed something terrible.\u201d <em>Something?<\/em> Sounds like Rep. Omar Ilhan, the Islamist Democrat from Minnesota, when she said \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/babin.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some people did something on 9\/11<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><em>Source: Email from UVU instructor (obtained by Judicial Watch) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The leftist instructor can\u2019t spare too much \u201ccompassion,\u201d however, because UVU\u2019s \u201ccommunity is far larger and more diverse.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonoring this individual would go against the values of the broader student body and the university as a whole, and it would deeply offend many of the students we are trying to educate and guide to be leaders for a more just and compassionate society,\u201d the employee pontificates. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Chilling Effect\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Turns out there are a lot of students in UVU\u2019s student body that don\u2019t share the liberal pinhead\u2019s \u201cvalues.\u201d What offends them is not feeling as safe on campus as their left-leaning classmates. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.org\/research-learn\/how-assassination-charlie-kirk-reshaping-campus-speech-nationwide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey<\/a> conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and College Pulse in the aftermath of the campus assassination understandably found a \u201cnotable portion\u201d of college students nationally reported being less comfortable expressing their political views at college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis chilling effect is especially pronounced among conservative students, who consistently report higher levels of unease than their moderate and liberal peers,\u201d the survey report, which oversampled UVU students, states. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s because a growing percentage of individuals identifying as left-leaning believe killing their political enemies is okay. <\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s assassination, the report\u2019s authors suspect, may have caused conservative students to \u201cgrow more wary\u201d of aggressive or violent protests to shut down speakers, \u201cperhaps reflecting increased concern about the real-world consequences of political violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiberal students, in contrast, showed no similar pullback, indicating that the event did not shift their views in the same way,\u201d the report states. <\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/22\/poll-death-wish-dems-want-trump-dead-or-taken-out-by-military-coup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Federalist reported<\/a> last week, a Liberal Currents poll conducted in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/stratpolitics.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Liberal-Currents-2028-Democratic-Presidential-Primary-Poll-Crosstabs-Sep-2026-For-Public-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Strategic Politics<\/a> finds about one out of every three Democrats responding would like to see Trump assassinated while speaking at a rally. More than half of the TDS set would welcome \u2014 at least at some level \u2014 the president dying in his sleep while in office, according to the poll, conducted on Sept. 3 and Sept. 8-10. <\/p>\n<p>So much for \u201cfairness, accountability, and protection for all.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Toxic Brew\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>U.S. higher education is growing liberal extremists, college graduates who believe the political ends sometimes justify the violent means. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat radical worldview is the product of the U.S. higher education system, where a toxic brew of Marxist philosophy and identity politics has become ever-more extreme,\u201d Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs, wrote in a piece \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/ocpathink.org\/post\/analysis\/higher-education-has-an-extremist-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cHigher Education Has An Extremist Problem\u201d<\/a> \u2014 published not long after Kirk\u2019s assassination.  <\/p>\n<p>The cognitive dissonance among the \u201csocial justice\u201d tribe is breathtaking. In a Nov. 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judicialwatch.org\/documents\/utah-valley-univ-charlie-kirk-records-prod-3-2026-pgs-121-122\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">email<\/a>, a self-described UVU faculty member \u201chad a hard time dealing with the aftermath of the shooting.\u201d Why? Because a beloved husband and father was fatally shot in the neck while again showing the world why free speech on college campuses is critical to the health of a constitutional republic? No, because said faculty member couldn\u2019t \u201cunderstand how people could support or mourn someone who was so divisive and spewed such vituperation in his \u2018debates.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI regret that he was invited to UVU at all, and wish you had rethought the decision to allow him a forum on our campus,\u201d the university teacher complained. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><em>Source: Email from UVU faculty member (obtained by Judicial Watch)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Faculty and staff at several universities rejoiced or mocked Kirk\u2019s murder, some insisting Kirk got what he deserved for saying \u201coffensive\u201d things like, men are not women and women are not men, and that DEI is a destructive scam. Some who jumped online to post callous remarks lost their plum university positions. Many were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/weekly-education\/2026\/01\/26\/faculty-firings-over-kirk-commentary-are-unraveling-00745705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reinstated and paid handsome settlements <\/a>in lawsuits over their due process and speech rights. <\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk was silenced. He has no right of appeal. His family, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/26\/review-finds-serious-security-flaws-on-the-utah-campus-where-charlie-kirk-was-murdered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preparing to sue<\/a> the university for failing to protect the slain conservative leader, don\u2019t see any justice \u2014 \u201csocial\u201d or otherwise \u2014 in that life sentence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharlie Kirk was assassinated while exercising his right to speak on a college campus,\u201d Judicial Watch\u2019s Fitton said in a statement. \u201cThese records reveal that, even as Utah Valley University publicly called for free expression and civil discourse, some faculty members were making hateful and vicious comments about him, objecting to his invitation to campus, and threatening to leave if his memory were honored.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UVU faculty urged students to overlook Kirk\u2019s murder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2672553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-29-at-1.57.34-AM-1024x576.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[63513,49136,52837,40146,33971],"class_list":["post-2672552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-campus-politics","tag-higher-ed","tag-leftist-violence","tag-political-activism","tag-social-movements"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-29-at-1.57.34-AM-1024x576.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672556,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672552\/revisions\/2672556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2672553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}