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Date: February 19th, 2018 9:21 AM
Author: Trip cruise ship

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Students at Kent State U. dressed as children last October as part of a Turning Point USA chapter event intended to make the point that campus "safe spaces" are for children. After the stunt was ridiculed on social media, the national organization unfairly distanced itself from the protest, says the chapter's ex-president.

The conservative group Turning Point USA has built a huge following by consistently bashing hypersensitive campus culture. Too many students, the group says, act like delicate "snowflakes" who can’t handle being exposed to opposing viewpoints.

But when an event mocking "safe spaces" at Kent State University turned into a public-relations nightmare last fall, it was Turning Point leaders who were "triggered," said Kaitlin Bennett, former president of the group’s chapter there.

"It kind of seems like they needed a safe space from the event," Bennett, 22, said in an interview with The Chronicle.

Bennett announced her resignation this week — in part to protest the lack of support she says her chapter received after the October 18 event, which featured students dressing up as children, blowing bubbles, and in one case, wearing a diaper while sucking on a pacifier. The chapter had sought to make the point that "safe spaces are for children."

Instead, the image of a diaper-wearing conservative activist was relentlessly mocked on social media. A day later, Turning Point’s leadership responded by distancing itself from the whole affair, saying in a statement that "this particular event was not approved by our regional or local field staff."

Courtesy of Kaitlin Bennett

Kaitlin Bennett resigned as president of Turning Point USA's Kent State chapter, saying that the national organization had tried to silence her from speaking about the group's event last October.

That was a lie, Bennett told The Chronicle, and the organization's national leaders threw her chapter "under the bus, in front of the whole nation."

"They knew that the event was happening," Bennett said, adding that it had been planned for months and that she had informed Turning Point’s leaders that "there are going to be some people who dress up as kids."

A Turning Point spokesman, Jake Hoffman, declined to respond on Friday to Bennett’s criticisms, writing in an email that the nonprofit group does not "comment on Human Resources matters."

Hoffman stressed that Turning Point has chapters on more than 1,000 campuses and boasts tens of thousands of activists.

"The quality of our organization speaks for itself and we look forward to empowering more young people all across the country in the coming years," he wrote.

Bennett, who is set to graduate in May, acknowledged that Turning Point’s leadership had not been specifically warned that someone at the October event would show up wearing a diaper (a student who, incidentally, was not a Turning Point member).

Turning Point subsequently terminated her from her part-time job as a campus coordinator because of "the diaper thing," Bennett said, although she successfully argued to be reinstated. Still, after she joked about the diaper controversy on Facebook, she said Turning Point’s leaders instructed her to refrain from mentioning the topic again.

"They told me just that I need to stop triggering people," Bennett said. "They said, ‘Stop the triggering. Let’s focus on other things on campus. We’ll work with you to get speakers.’"

Ultimately, though, Bennett said the Kent State chapter did not receive adequate support in booking campus speakers, which contributed to her decision to part ways with Turning Point.

Months after the "safe spaces" backlash, Turning Point continues to be the butt of diaper-themed jokes. But Bennett said she doesn’t regret putting together the October event, which she found "hilarious."

She does, however, regret that Turning Point — an organization that touts the importance of "free speech" on campus — was able to successfully pressure her to keep quiet about diaper-gate. Until now, that is.

"They pretty much censored me in terms of being allowed to speak about it to anybody," she said.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3897348&forum_id=2#35435761)



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Date: February 19th, 2018 9:24 AM
Author: Exhilarant Stag Film

NO DIAPERS, NO PEACE!

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Date: February 19th, 2018 9:40 AM
Author: Trip cruise ship

Chapter president Kaitlin Bennett

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Date: February 19th, 2018 9:43 AM
Author: kink-friendly fragrant crackhouse friendly grandma

K street cowards. They have no idea what it's like to be down there in the field.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3897348&forum_id=2#35435858)