A professor in Wisconsin who recently went viral for a Facebook post in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination described an “isolating environment” for those on campus who harbor conservative views.
Trevor Tomesh is an assistant professor of computer, information and data science at the University of Wisconsin –River Falls. While he stressed that on his campus, he feels like there is room for dialogue among faculty members who might disagree politically, he recognizes that isn’t the case at every institute of higher learning in the United States.
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He also expressed disgust for professors and students who celebrated Kirk’s assassination, and contrasted the reaction to Kirk’s killing with the reaction to a popular Christian, conservative speaker named Sister Cindy Smock holding an event on campus. The school, he said, offered trauma counselors to students, and “assembled a task force to determine how to handle people like Cindy and the trauma she inflicts on students.”
Despite his many efforts to get the University of Wisconsin system to address Kirk’s death, it did not.
“Once I came out as a conservative and I made my views known on Facebook, and that my post went viral on Facebook, I had a lot of faculty and staff from all over the world, but from my university as well, message me and say basically, hey, ‘I wish that I had the bravery to speak up like you do,'” Tomesh told Fox News Digital. “And so it’s kind of an environment, it’s a cold environment. It’s an isolating environment when you’re conservative on especially a very liberal campus, which I’m not on a particularly liberal campus, but when you’re on a very liberal campus, it can be very isolating.”