WAAAAH: ‘ I think it’s crazy that that’s sent to everyone on campus ‘
As liberals on U. S. campuses continue to justify theft, intimidation, and threats as “free speech”, an alleged , “hateful” and “misogynistic” message sent by a traditional University of Iowa undergraduate class resulted in leftist students ‘ feelings being hurt.
The UI Young Americans for Freedom email, which promoted an April 7 appearance by former Sean Hannity radio show producer Elisha Krauss ( and was approved by the university ), asked” Are you sexist”? and said” Whether you hate women or love women, we have a speaker and a donation drive you won’t want to miss”! according to The Daily Iowan.
YAF Secretary Daelynn Wygle said Krauss will explain how “leftist beliefs are anti-woman”.
” We want to protect people from being injured by people competing in women’s athletics”, Wygle said. ” We even fight to maintain women’s locker rooms and bedrooms as areas free from people. All of these jobs are obviously pro-woman, but leftist feminists extremely claim that men may become women”.
But UI “health promotion” major Ava Neppl told the student paper the YAF email” comes off]as ] push]ing ] the narrative that it’s okay to be sexist or hate women”.
Neppl said the message “was meant to be dangerous and unpleasant and to get folks riled up”, particularly as it was sent on the Trans Day of Visibility. She added she’d had been “embarrassed” to get associated with the information.
Student Devin Buttz claimed the communication was “intentionally transphobic”:” I’m genuinely shocked. It wasn’t just the internet itself. It was the day it was sent. It was Trans Visibility Day, and I think it’s crazy that that’s sent to everyone on campus”.
KCRG reports some miffed students tore an event banner ( pictured ) and poured water over a chalk message advertising Krauss ‘ appearance. And speaking love, some sent the YAF information calling them “fascists” and their function “insane”, “ridiculous”, and , “idiotic”.
The Left hates people! @ElishaKrauss @yaf @_YAFreedom photograph. twitter.com/cn8DARYftO
— Iowa YAF ( @Iowa_YAF ) April 1, 2025
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One message referred to Krauss as a” thief to people”.
UI Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication Brett Johnson ( pictured ), an attorney who teaches media law, media ethics, media sociology, and the “disruptive forces of digital technology” on those areas, noted concerns over the email’s alleged “hate speech”.
As there is” no exact legal definition of love speech”, Johnson told the Iowan, the YAF is protected by the First Amendment. But traditional student groups doing” contentious” stuff is “nothing new”, he added.
” It was baiting people because it proves their point. It martyrs them in that kind of a way”, Johnson said. ” It’s part of the handbook. This isn’t pure happening simply here at community level”.
Of word, one of Johnson’s scientific articles defines “hate talk” as “any talk that attacks and attempts to superior any group or class of people, usually spoken by a team with a higher level of cultural power than the targets of the speech”.
The U. Iowa site says” The First Amendment protects conversation that may be cruel, unpleasant, or inconsistent with the , school’s values. The best response to speech the listener finds offensive is counter-speech”.
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IMAGE CAPTION &, CREDIT: A pair of college students are upset at the news, Shutterstock .com. INTERIOR IMAGE: U. Iowa
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