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‘No-Communications & Restricted Proximity Order’ regarding student with whom he never communicated

An Amherst College student who last month wrote an op-ed for his student paper criticizing DEI — diversity, equity, and inclusion — initiatives dealt with harassment, a death threat, and incurred the wrath of the school’s Title IX office.

In The Amherst Student, Jeb Allen criticized progressives’ stances on topics such as biological differences, “race over merit,” and the “inconsistency” between intentions and actual results.

“To our campus’s detriment, conversations critiquing them are rare, especially from a conservative standpoint,” Allen wrote. “Rather than addressing the roots of inequality within American society, we have accepted ineffective, performative gestures that give a false appearance of growth, but instead reinforce damaging stereotypes that minorities are incapable of doing as good a job.”

To help make his case, Allen pointed to some wacky statements discovered during the Los Angeles-area wildfires, such as “want[ing] to see someone that looks like you” when you call 911, and a female firefighter stating if you think a woman can’t carry a man out of a burning building, you need to ask how “he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.”

In The New Guard, Allen relates how he “received hundreds of anonymous ad-hominem attacks” on the app Fizz following publication of his piece, which included the death threat: “dragging jeb allen on fizz isn’t enough I need a– [gunshot].”

Other comments included “Any white male who is not gay or trans is poison,” and “meritocracy is white supremacy.”

Allen also was slapped with a “No-Communications & Restricted Proximity Order” by the Amherst Title IX office due to a complaint by an aggrieved female student with whom Allen had never spoken.

According to Allen, this same student previously had argued the Amherst football team merely looking at her public Instagram post constituted “harassment” and was “indicative of ‘white fragility.'”

The Title IX office at one point told Allen he “potentially violated” the order by “non-verbally making [him]self present” at the same dining hall as the student who filed the complaint.

From the New Guard piece:

When conservatives behave with dignity and the “party of tolerance” exposes its intolerance, people begin to question the leftist-enforced status quo.

Since the fallout over my article criticizing DEI programs, the president of Amherst College and administration recognized the need for change, and is working diligently with me to make this campus a more inclusive environment for students of all ideological backgrounds.

Still, academia has proven its institutions won’t take action unless students make it impossible to ignore the injustices that occur within them — so that is precisely what we must do.

Academia needs reform, and it starts with conservatives willing to attend the institutions, speak out, and force the change that is desperately needed.

Allen is the only conservative at the student paper, according to Turning Point USA.

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