Yes, seriously.
In the you can’t make this stuff up file comes word that pro-free speech swag was stolen at a recent campus event at the University of Michigan aptly titled: “Progressive Censorship: The Left’s War on Your Freedom.”
The Nov. 30 event was hosted by Young Americans for Freedom and featured David Horowitz, billed as “a former revolutionary in the New Left turned conservative author” by organizers.
A small protest took place at the start of the event – a group of individuals walked out of Horowitz’s speech shortly after it began, the Michigan Review reports.
“Outside of the Pendleton Room, those who had ‘protested’ milled about, seemingly at a loss for what to do. Eventually, they simply left the Michigan Union,” the Review reports. “When the event ended, however, the materials that YAF had left out for late arrivals to peruse … had been stolen.”
“On a piece of paper left at the table in place of the stolen materials, someone had scrawled ‘SHIT’ as an apparent message to those who had organized the event.”
Grant Strobl, the National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom and founding chairman of Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Michigan, told The College Fix that among the items swiped were 125 pamphlets from the Horowitz Freedom Center, valued at $3 a piece, plus a dozen Ronald Reagan calendars and hundreds of free speech stickers.
“I told the police that I value the stolen materials to be approximately $500,” Strobl said.
He said he is disappointed, but not surprised, by the theft.
“The thieves proved our point of ‘progressive censorship,'” Strobl said. “We are upset that the materials were taken, but all the materials are easily replaced.”
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