A disturbing scene of grotesque political hatred unfolded at the University of North Texas, where a brave conservative student was systematically harassed, silenced, and abandoned by both her peers and the university administration for the simple act of defending human decency. This incident, which occurred mere hours after the tragic assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, exposes a deeply sickening culture festering on college campuses, a culture that is not only tolerated but seemingly enabled by a complicit academic establishment.
Mary Catherine, a student in a quantitative methods class, was subjected to a horrifying spectacle where her classmates not only celebrated a murder but actively cheered it. She described how one student announced the news and then proceeded to show the actual assassination video to the class. “Then she was like, ‘Do you all want to see the video of him getting shot?’” Mary Catherine recounted. Instead of shock or revulsion, the classroom erupted in applause. “Right when it stopped, everyone starts clapping and cheering. They’re like, ‘Oh, my gosh, Charlie Kirk, he’s going to die. I can’t wait. Oh, my gosh, this is the best day ever.’”
The mob mentality quickly escalated beyond Kirk, with students explicitly calling for further political violence. “They were like, ‘This needs to happen to Trump.’ And they start saying other names,” Mary Catherine testified. The hatred reached a chilling nadir when one student, in a display of utter heartlessness, celebrated the suffering of Kirk’s children: “She was like, ‘Yeah, and I’m pretty sure he has a family and two little girls. This is awesome. They’re going to grow up without a dad.’”
It was at this point that Mary Catherine, demonstrating immense courage, finally stood up to the deranged mob. She turned around and began recording, stating, “Okay, so we’re going to start wishing death upon people… No matter what your political beliefs are, this shouldn’t even be being brought up in this class.” For this act of moral clarity, she was immediately targeted. “She just starts attacking me. She comes up and she starts getting in my face and she starts pointing. The whole class is just reaming me.”
The professor, who had been a silent witness to this entire vile display, did not intervene to stop the students glorifying an assassination. His only action was to approach the victim of the harassment, Mary Catherine. The professor’s response was a blatant abdication of his duty to provide a safe learning environment. “The professor has been watching this happen, and he comes up to me, not to the other student, to me, and says, ‘You all should probably take this outside,’ and then laughs.” This dismissive laughter from a figure of authority in the face of such serious harassment reveals a profound institutional bias against conservative students.
Forced to leave the classroom for her own safety and emotional well-being, Mary Catherine then embarked on a futile journey through the university’s bureaucracy, where she was met with a wall of indifference and inaction. She went straight to the dean of students, where she received the devastating confirmation of Kirk’s death. Yet, even in her distraught state, she was told, “We can’t do anything.” She was passed along to the Department of Psychology, where a receptionist treated her with blatant dismissiveness. “She was like, ‘Can you give me a reason?’… She looked at me and she was like, ‘Well, can you give me a reason?’”
When she finally secured a mere seven minutes with the department chair, his response was equally underwhelming. He asked her, “What do you want out of this?” Her request was simple and reasonable: to have an unjust absence removed from her record. “I want my absence taken off the record because I did not feel comfortable in that classroom, and I walked out.” Despite the egregious circumstances, she was left with little hope, stating, “I just feel like no one has really cared.”
BREAKING – A University of North Texas student is going viral for confronting classmates who were passing around a video of Charlie Kirk dying while laughing, and says the professor singled her out and asked her to leave class. pic.twitter.com/tNn9riEtrW
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This entire episode underscores the urgent need for the strong leadership of President Donald J. Trump, who consistently champions free speech and condemns political violence. The silence from the mainstream press on this story is a deafening testament to their partisan agenda.