University DELETES Tweet That Welcomed Conservatives To Campus After Triggering ‘Tolerant’ Liberals And Facing Major Backlash

Penn State University was trying to be truly welcoming to ALL students and then they stepped in it. Their noble efforts backfired when snowflakes revolted over this now deleted tweet.

Penn State deleted this tweet which affirmed that conservative students are welcome on campus after *checks notes* liberal students expressed outrage pic.twitter.com/KuCvJtoKfr

— Kara Zupkus (@kara_kirsten) July 11, 2020

Townhall.com reported on the hullabaloo that this totally non-controversial tweet caused. Penn State experience backlash on both on the social media universe and on campus.

The university’s campus newspaper, The Daily Collegian, covered the controversy.

“Conservatives in the United States do not live in a system that was built from the blood and trauma of their ancestors — a system that continues to put down people who look like [their ancestors] every day,” student Cassandra Nuñez told the paper.

Another student, Imani Murray, said that by adding conservative students to a tweet about inclusivity, the university neglected her experience as a black woman.

“[Conservative students] are some of the students that call us the N-word and show us firsthand what white supremacy really is,” she said.

In a statement to Campus Reform, Penn State Director of Strategic Communications William Hessert, Jr. said the tweet was deleted because, while it was meant “to express the inclusive, democratic and participatory values of the liberal arts,” the “message was not being received well and it is important for us that our messages be received as intended.”

“While we do not believe in deleting our posts, given the sensitivities of the matter we felt that it was better to remove it,” Hessert added.

The fact that it wasn’t well received demonstrates that conservatives are not welcome on campus. Their original tweet was inclusive and liberal students could not tolerate that. Genuine inclusivity would welcome people of all viewpoints. Today’s progressives, unfortunately, only welcome and tolerate those who agree with them.

The Penn State College Republicans were deeply disappointed in the decision.

Jordan Clark, president of the Penn State College Republicans, told Townhall that he was both surprised and disappointed by the university’s handling of the situation but does not believe that the college was trying to send a negative message toward conservatives by deleting their tweet. He does, however, believe that backtracking was the wrong move.

“Had they left the tweet up and ignored the outrageous responses from left-leaning students and community members, I believe that there would have been less conflict,” Clark said in an email. “Diversity of thought is essential, especially at a large public institution such as Penn State University. In the opinion of the Penn State College Republicans, fostering an inclusive environment for ALL students should not cause conflict of any kind.”

Penn State University should have ignored the faux outrage. The kids would have tired of the controversy within a few days and found something new to be offended about.

By deleting the tweet, the university sent the message to conservative students that they are not welcome and they had better keep their views to themselves.

The sad truth of the matter is that conservatives are almost certainly the group most discriminated against and muzzled on college campuses today. Penn State University was taking a step in the right direction with their original tweet. It was a mistake to delete it and sent a message that was worse than if they had never tweeted at all.