Boston University Trump supporter testing liberal classmates’ tolerance for free speech
By Evan Lips | November 5, 2016, 16:05 EDT
BOSTON — A Boston University student has enraged his left-leaning classmates by appearing in a school-sponsored YouTube video in which he lists his reasons for backing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump — the worst of which, in the opinion of his detractors, is the student’s criticism of multiculturalism.
Nicholas Fuentes, a sophomore, does not appear to be backing down. A review of his Twitter account appears to show a student who is reveling in tweaking his classmates’ liberal views:
“Wahhh wahhh I’m a little baby” pic.twitter.com/JluLEu5uZh
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) October 31, 2016
Fuentes has apparently agreed to participate in a debate slated for Sunday evening. He’ll be squaring off against another student supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to a CampusReform.org report.
“Political correctness and the multicultural movement in America are subverting any effort that a conservative could ever make to change the country,” Fuentes said at the beginning of the short video, a comment that appears to feed off of his earlier views on multiculturalism posted via social media.
According to CampusReform, which managed to access the private Facebook pages belonging to several BU students upset over Fuentes’s political beliefs, leftists are now scrambling to find a way to prompt Twitter to shut down his account.
“Anyone else down to report him on Twitter as ‘harmful or offensive?’” one student posted, according to the report.
Fuentes kicked the proverbial political correct hornet’s nest last week when he compared multiculturalism to cancer:
2 Notes:
1. If you are a “Man for Hillary,” cut off your balls immediately, you’ve lost your right to them.
2. Multiculturalism is cancer.— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) October 31, 2016
Fuentes on Saturday thanked others on Twitter for supporting him, despite the efforts of others to have him silenced:
Thank you to everyone for all the support over the past 24 hours! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) November 5, 2016
@NickJFuentes sorry that you’re getting so much hate here at BU, while I disagree with your views, I think this witch hunt is shameful.
— Ibrahim Rashid (@Ibrahim_Rashid1) November 2, 2016
Some of his classmates had different opinions of Fuentes:
I’M SCREAMING I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M GOING TO THE SAME SCHOOL AS NICHOLAS FUENTES
— 🍂 Hannah G. 🍂 (@hannahjeez) November 2, 2016
RIP to the BU Trump supporter who literally said: “multiculturalism is cancer”
— Alex Peña (@alexpena97) November 1, 2016
if i see [redacted] j fuentes on campus i will vomit into his mouth
— que jodido (@flirtincurtin) November 1, 2016
hey just wondering how does it feel to be the most hated man on campus today https://t.co/BtgqREDPay
— alexander hallieton (@heartofhallie) November 1, 2016
tfw BU does an election video that features a trump supporter who believes that multiculturalism is a “cancer”!!!!!!
— Aaron West (@Adammitrano) November 1, 2016
Sunday’s debate is scheduled to take place at 8 p.m. and will be broadcast live via the Periscope app:
Come see @NickJFuentes wreck liberals in person at BU Sunday. @KassyDillon will be periscoping @LibertarianBlue https://t.co/1zXJS0NEg0
— Cameron Westbrook (@Cam_Westbrook) November 5, 2016