Hate or free speech? CMU students react to local Turning Point USA polls
By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
Few things stir debate on college campuses like politics—and at CMU, a student group’s whiteboard polls have done just that. Turning Point USA’s Colorado Mesa University chapter (TPUSA CMU) has sparked discussion after posting a series of provocative whiteboard poll questions in the university’s cafeteria.
Some students view the questions as open discussion starters, while others see them as hate speech meant to provoke.
“Some of the questions pertaining to immigrants and other situations going on, you have to understand a lot of people are going through this personally,” CMU student Welam Agamba told KKCO 11 News.
Founded by Charlie Kirk in 2012, TPUSA is known for challenging anti-American perspectives on colle...