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   Radical student group says fighting 'LGBT oppression' is part of   
   'fight for socialist future'   
      
   In the ultimate exhibition of campus intersectionality, student   
   communists at Princeton University connected their protest of an   
   author they view as "transphobic" to their fight to end capitalism.   
      
      
   The student flier argues that combating Shrier's book, billed as a   
   deep dive into what she calls a "trans epidemic" in young girls, was   
   part of their "fight for a socialist future."   
      
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   Revolutionary Student Action is a student branch of Workers' Voice,   
   an openly Marxist organization that believes "capitalism can only be   
   overcome through a socialist revolution." Its website, which is   
   linked on the Princeton flier, says the group's mission is to "pave   
   the road to communism" and a "classless society free of exploitation   
   and oppression."   
      
   Shrier's Wednesday event was co-hosted by the Princeton Open Campus   
   Coalition and the Princeton Tory, the school's conservative   
   newspaper. The event was held at an off-campus location disclosed   
   only to attendees, organizers told the Free Beacon, to protect   
   students from harassment from groups like Revolutionary Student   
   Action, which isn't recognized by the university.   
      
   "We are thrilled that the event itself took place without   
   disruption, but the visceral reaction of certain Princeton community   
   members is indicative of an ailing culture surrounding open   
   discourse and robust dialogue," said Myles McKnight, president of   
   the Open Campus Coalition. "We feel that students should be excited   
   to engage with differing points of view on controversial issues   
   about which reasonable people disagree."   
      
   Opposition to Shrier's event was not limited to the communist group.   
   McKnight said several students reported being verbally harassed by   
   peers who knew they were attending the event. Several students   
   turned to social media to slam the university for allowing the event   
   to proceed.   
      
   "This woman has openly demonstrated in her twt [sic] feed that she's   
   arriving on campus with the mission of engaging in transphobic   
   discourse with princeton [sic] students," one Instagram post shared   
   with the Free Beacon reads.   
      
   Princeton's Gender and Sexuality Resource Center hosted a counter-   
   event, a "teach-in" on transgender issues, Wednesday night in   
   collaboration with the Princeton Pride Alliance.   
      
   Several prominent figures in recent years have faced backlash for   
   deviating from the progressive line on transgender issues, both on   
   college campuses and off. Kathleen Stock, a sex and gender   
   researcher, resigned from the University of Sussex in October after   
   mobs of students protested against her belief in the existence of   
   biological sex. Internationally acclaimed author J.K. Rowling has   
   been shunned for suggesting that the elimination of sex erases   
   women—it is widely believed she was left out of the 20th anniversary   
   celebration of her Harry Potter series because of her comments on   
   transgenderism.   
      
   Shrier posted her full remarks at Princeton shortly after her   
   appearance, in which she addressed the pushback she's gotten from   
   many on the left.   
      
      
   The communist letter said Shrier's appearance "put people's lives at   
   risk by further marginalizing them."   
      
      
   https://freebeacon.com/campus/princeton-marxists-protest-campus-   
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