A coalition of progressive student activist groups at Arizona State University (ASU) is calling for the expulsion of Kyle Rittenhouse, who has recently expressed interest in continuing his education there in person.
“I am in college. I’m a student at Arizona State University,” he told Carlson, adding that he would like to live on campus and study either nursing or law.
“I don’t know for sure yet, but I do intend on going in campus and pursuing a career in nursing,” he said. “I’ve been looking into law. I may want to become a lawyer. I haven’t completely decided yet, but I want to be a nurse, so I’ve been doing the prerequisites for that.”
Despite Rittenhouse being an online student taking non-degree courses, the mere possibility that he may attend ASU in person has sparked an outrage among the campus left. Progressive groups such as MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition announced that they would gather and protest on Dec. 1 to “get murderer Kyle Rittenhouse off [the] campus.”
Specifically, the groups demand that ASU withdraw Rittenhouse’s enrollment, issue a statement condemning “white supremacy” and declaring Rittenhouse a “racist murderer,” reaffirm that ASU Multicultural Center is a “safe space from white supremacy,” and “redirect” funding from campus police to the Center.
“[The ASU] should suspend the student org and individuals involved in this harassment campaign against the student,” the ASU Republicans wrote on Twitter.
Turley also drew similarities between the anti-Rittenhouse movement and an earlier attempt to block Nick Sandmann from attending Transylvania University in his home state of Kentucky, noting that false narratives pushed by the media played a role in both incidents.
![Nick Sandmann from Covington Catholic High School stands in front of Native American activist Nathan Phillips while the latter bangs a drum in his face in Washington on Jan. 18, 2019. (Kaya Taitano via Reuters)](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.theepochtimes.com%2Fassets%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2F29%2FScreen-Shot-2019-01-28-at-3.57.31-PM-1-1200x675.png&w=1200&q=75)
The January 2019 encounter between Sandmann and Native American activist Nathan Phillips on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial gained national attention after extensive media coverage based on a short video, in which Sandman appeared to be “smirking” at Philips, while his MAGA-hat-wearing friends from Covington Catholic High School chanted and cheered in mockery. Longer video footage that emerged later shows that the Covington students were on the receiving end of racist verbal attacks from a group of Black Hebrew Israelites, and it was Phillips who approached Sandmann and beat a drum within inches of the young man’s face.
“This is the problem with liberal media outlets in the United States,” Sandmann wrote. “They want to get the story first, get the most views, make the most money, and advance the agenda from liberal patrons. These outlets cover themselves when they are wrong with small footnotes at the ends of long articles, clarifying that new information has come out and that they have updated their coverage.”