Officials at San Francisco State University (SFSU) drew fierce scrutiny after they canceled a conservative speaking event just two weeks after NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines was attacked by a mob on campus.Â
Jon Root, a Turning Point USA contributor, was supposed to speak at the college Wednesday night, but the school’s last-minute cancellation forced him to deliver his remarks off campus.Â
He joined “Fox & Friends First” Thursday to discuss the sequence of events, and why students’ First Amendment rights are under “assault” in university classrooms.Â
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“There was an assault on Riley Gaines, and now there’s an assault on free speech,” Root told Todd Piro Thursday. “And I think what we’re seeing right now, too, is they actually are holding to their values if their values are intolerance and fascism, because they’re trying to vilify the TPUSA chapter.”
“The last thing we want to see is people get hurt or turn into a situation where there’s violence, and it affects everybody that’s involved.”
Leading up to the event, Root said the university told TPUSA chapter members that they would not be granted the speaking space, previously granted for the Riley Gaines event, and they would face “disciplinary action” if they proceeded with the event.Â
Eventually, the organization was forced to hold the discussion off-campus, where Root said almost 100 people attended.Â
“They left basically everything all chalked up with trans rights are human rights,” Root said. “They had BLM all over the place. They had pro-choice all over the place, and then we were forced to move it off campus. The park ended up shutting down. Then we moved it right across the street.”
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“There was just under 100 people that showed up, and I think everybody that needed to show up, showed up,” he continued. “We had a few…
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