Conservative commentator and activist Matt Walsh is coming to the University of Iowa, and the far-left is already up in arms.
Walsh, as part of his “What is a Woman?” national documentary tour, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, at the university’s Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge, according to the event host, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). The event is free.
Tickets are available here.
The left-leaning Gazette in Cedar Rapids ran a story about Walsh’s visit, burying the date of the event under several paragraphs of the Left’s attack on the Daily Wire columnist. The article notes Walsh’s October tweet in which he wrote, “I believe that gender ideology is one of the greatest evils in human history,” and quotes a leftist change.org petition opposing his University of Iowa stop.
“By continuing to allow Matt Walsh to have a platform to speak, we endanger the LGBTQIA+ students that call this campus home,” the petition states. “By allowing Walsh to have a place to spread incendiary and violent speech with no repercussion, we provoke fear amongst the students that were promised protection here.”
Walsh has repeatedly encountered heated protests and threats of violence from the “tolerant” left on his tour. In October, his sold-out event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sparked far-left protests and vandalism attacking Walsh and the YAF chapter that hosted him.
One spray-painted bit of graffiti said “Trans women are women” while another equated Walsh to a Nazi. A third called him a pedophile, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
YAF’s Nick Baker reported that an Antifa group is organizing a protest of Walsh’s speech in Iowa City, according to flyers around campus and social media posts.
“YAF is bringing him to OUR CAMPUS in eighteen days. Show up, please,” an account called “Antifa Hawkeye Action,” wrote on Twitter. “Lets get out there and ruin some folks days! [sic]” the post continued.
Lets get out there and ruin some folks days! https://t.co/P1pOBddn5D
— Antifa Hawkeye Action (@HawkeyeAntifa) March 30, 2023
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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
Photo “Matt Walsh” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0. Background Photo “University of Iowa” by University of Iowa.
