Pushback: Conservative Hispanic student defeats effort to blacklist her
Gallegos is also participating in Wichita State’s
first Collegiate Leadership Competition
Don’t comply: Despite being Hispanic, Olivia Gallegos — a student at Wichita State University and an elected member of its student government — was accused of being a white supremacist and threatened with removal because she nominated a conservative woman for recognition by the school’s Diversity, Empowerment and Inclusion Committee.
It seems that committee wanted nothing to do with diversity of thought, even if it empowered a woman.
“Basically by highlighting a conservative, I was [called] a white supremacist and [accused of] giving a platform to white supremacy,” she said. “I just laughed, because I’m Hispanic.”
But the effort to force Gallegos to resign never came to fruition. “I had to sit through a 2.5-hour senate review board where they ultimately determined, ‘You did nothing wrong. But we’d like you to meet with diversity and inclusion to learn how to respond to things like this, and use this as a learning experience,’” Gallegos said.
She refused.
Not only that, when she was denied nomination for re-election to her student government position, she ran a write-in campaign and won anyway.
Gallegos also was central in getting a chapter of the conservative organization Turning Point USA recognized by the college. Despite stalling efforts, name-calling, and then a denial of recognition by the student government which forced a lawsuit, the chapter eventually won its case and was formally recognized.
More important, it was the student government’s supreme court, not the outside courts, that ruled in favor of Turning Point USA.
The supreme court for Wichita State’s student government approved the Turning Point USA group, overruling the objections of student senators. The decision allows the free-market student group to have official status at the university starting immediately.
The majority opinion said the Student Senate violated the federal Constitution, the Student Government Association Constitution and the Student Bill of Rights by denying the group official status.
The denial had to be overturned because it uses “viewpoint discrimination as the basis for denying an organization official … status,” the October 27 ruling said.
Gallegos’ actions here prove that Americans can still win a victory for freedom and free speech. All it takes is undaunted courage and a refusal to comply with the intolerant demands of the leftist bullies who aim to control all discourse. By never apologizing and refusing to comply with the unreasonable demands of the blacklisters, Gallegos and her cohorts in that Turning Point USA chapter were able stiffen the spine of many other students, who might have run and hid otherwise. The result was a write-in election victory and a court victory that came from the student body, not higher authorities.
At the same time, we must also applaud the administration at Wichita State. It would have no part in the effort by a few leftist radicals on campus to make blacklisting the only method of debate allowed. When these goons tried to get the administration to blackball Gallegos for not bowing to their will, the administration essentially told them to go jump in a lake, thus ending the witch hunt very quickly.
If I was a high school student or the parent of one, this story recommends Wichita State highly as a worthwhile college to attend.
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Gallegos is also participating in Wichita State’s
first Collegiate Leadership Competition
Don’t comply: Despite being Hispanic, Olivia Gallegos — a student at Wichita State University and an elected member of its student government — was accused of being a white supremacist and threatened with removal because she nominated a conservative woman for recognition by the school’s Diversity, Empowerment and Inclusion Committee.
It seems that committee wanted nothing to do with diversity of thought, even if it empowered a woman.
“Basically by highlighting a conservative, I was [called] a white supremacist and [accused of] giving a platform to white supremacy,” she said. “I just laughed, because I’m Hispanic.”
But the effort to force Gallegos to resign never came to fruition. “I had to sit through a 2.5-hour senate review board where they ultimately determined, ‘You did nothing wrong. But we’d like you to meet with diversity and inclusion to learn how to respond to things like this, and use this as a learning experience,’” Gallegos said.
She refused.
Not only that, when she was denied nomination for re-election to her student government position, she ran a write-in campaign and won anyway.
Gallegos also was central in getting a chapter of the conservative organization Turning Point USA recognized by the college. Despite stalling efforts, name-calling, and then a denial of recognition by the student government which forced a lawsuit, the chapter eventually won its case and was formally recognized.
More important, it was the student government’s supreme court, not the outside courts, that ruled in favor of Turning Point USA.
The supreme court for Wichita State’s student government approved the Turning Point USA group, overruling the objections of student senators. The decision allows the free-market student group to have official status at the university starting immediately.
The majority opinion said the Student Senate violated the federal Constitution, the Student Government Association Constitution and the Student Bill of Rights by denying the group official status.
The denial had to be overturned because it uses “viewpoint discrimination as the basis for denying an organization official … status,” the October 27 ruling said.
Gallegos’ actions here prove that Americans can still win a victory for freedom and free speech. All it takes is undaunted courage and a refusal to comply with the intolerant demands of the leftist bullies who aim to control all discourse. By never apologizing and refusing to comply with the unreasonable demands of the blacklisters, Gallegos and her cohorts in that Turning Point USA chapter were able stiffen the spine of many other students, who might have run and hid otherwise. The result was a write-in election victory and a court victory that came from the student body, not higher authorities.
At the same time, we must also applaud the administration at Wichita State. It would have no part in the effort by a few leftist radicals on campus to make blacklisting the only method of debate allowed. When these goons tried to get the administration to blackball Gallegos for not bowing to their will, the administration essentially told them to go jump in a lake, thus ending the witch hunt very quickly.
If I was a high school student or the parent of one, this story recommends Wichita State highly as a worthwhile college to attend.
Readers!
Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either. IMPORTANT! If you donate enough to get a book, please email me separately to tell me which book you want and the address to mail it to.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
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1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
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Its coming.
Little by little.
The question however remains: Will it be in time? The Democrat party machine understands what is coming down the road specifically for them. How far will they go to prevent that? You see it now in all of the measures they are taking to manipulate districts and suppress any investigations into election fraud.
Remember, its: “By any means necessary”. And I add to that up to and including murder.
Do not discount the potential of your enemy when their very existence hangs in the balance.
“Gallegos’ actions here prove that Americans can still win a victory for freedom and free speech. All it takes is undaunted courage and a refusal to comply with the intolerant demands of the leftist bullies who aim to control all discourse.”
As long as you can compete in the victimhood olympics.
Would a white male have been so successful? I’d say likely not.
Nice! Always good to hear about the victories, especially when it’s led from the ranks.
If people don’t see the REAL objective of D I E then they are as big of an idiot as the D I E people! Good for the young lady – hope she has a very successful career and has the opportunity to deny employment to MANY of the D I E idiots – not because of them BEING a D I E I – but because of their LACK OF ABILITIES!
Jordan Peterson
“D-I-E must DIE”
[“a reading of my article, posted January 11th, 2022 on the National Post front page.”]
January 19, 2022
https://youtu.be/oq2rBE5zwAs
18:08