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Davis Center Doesn't Care: Anti-Communist Student Group at Williams College Experiences a Hate Crime

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - The Williams Record is reporting about the hate crime experienced by a brave, anti-communist, anti-China activist, Topjor Tsultrim ’22. Topjor contributed an opinion piece to the Williams Record which is worth reading here. The gist of his opinion piece is that administrative outrage over hate crimes does not extend to those who are protesting the racist, genocidal, Chinese Communist party. 

Full details of the hate crime directed against Topjor and his new student organization called the Milk Tea Alliance are also covered by reporters from The Record. Two bookends were taken from a table he was manning in an effort to recruit members for his student organization on January 4, 2022. Even worse, the flag of Tibet was left laying on the ground. Given the hypersensitive culture of Williams College, this was - as Topjor believes - an obvious, politically motivated hate crime. 

The name Milk Tea Alliance comes from protest groups in Hong Kong and elsewhere who are resisting the cruelty and racism of the Chinese government. Topjor Tsultrim plays lacrosse at Williams. His Tibetan grandparents fled Chinese military aggression. His parents were raised in a refugee camp in India. 

His complaints about the hate crime he experiences were minimized by those who should have been working harder to protect him including the staff of Campus Safety Services (CSS), the Davis Center (DC), and the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (OIDEI).

Clearly, public support of an anti-communist, anti-China activist would interfere with the politically correct group think which has chilled freedom of speech at Williams College. Supporting Topjor's claim that he was the victim of a hate crime, which he was, would lend credence to a more conservative, Republican perspective, that China is the new evil empire and that those who are fighting against it deserve to be protected from the pro-China forces on campus. 

According to these reports, some students at Williams have sought to minimize the hate crime experienced by Topjor. Although there is not a lot we can do at Williams Liberty to help Topjor we can at least offer him support and verify the truth of his experience. Williams College is an unfriendly (and unfair) place for those who do not hew to the pro-China Democrat party line. 

The shabby treatment of Topjor Tsultrim ’22 and his complaint about this hate crime is apparent in his description of how he was mistreated, even lied to, by the director of the Davis Center, Dr. Eden-Renée Hayes. 

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

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Williams Grad Christine Wormuth Uses Her Awesome Affirmative Action Powers to Weaken the Army Over COVID Vax Hysteria

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - It looks like one of the students I may have taught at William College, Christine Wormuth, has taken on the job of weakening the Army and leaving us more vulnerable to our enemies. After losing a war in Afghanistan and encouraging Putin to invade Ukraine it is difficult to imagine what else she and the Biden team can do to weaken the United States as a military power. 

Nevertheless, thanks to an observant reader of Williams Liberty, I learned that last week Christine Wormuth, in her role as the Army Secretary, ordered commanders to start involuntary separation proceedings "for those who have refused the vaccine and do not have a pending or approved exemption."

This is, of course, insane. It is a public policy as ripe for ridicule as the Biden administration's plans to issue free crack pipes. 

After all, the long-term consequences of taking the vaccine are, as yet, unknown. Moreover, the actual risk to healthy, military-age men and women is negligible. In this context, removing those who refuse to take the vaccine basically purges the Army of its best and brightest as well as it's most courageous. 

Disturbingly, Christine communicates with the eerie wide-eye intensity of Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes. Similar to Holmes, Christine seems to have an unprecedented capacity to pretend that reality does not really exist. In her view, her clearly dysfunctional behaviors actually have the opposite impact. 

“Army readiness depends on soldiers who are prepared to train, deploy, fight and win our nation’s wars,” she said, according to the Associated Press. “Unvaccinated soldiers present risk to the force and jeopardize readiness. We will begin involuntary separation proceedings for Soldiers who refuse the vaccine order and are not pending a final decision on an exemption.”

Link to AP story

Christine Wormuth would have matriculated while I was still teaching there between 1986 and 1989. Something of a failure by traditional Williams College standards, she graduated from Williams College with a bachelor's degree in political science before earning her master's in public policy from the University of Maryland. From this modest beginning, it looks to me like she leveraged her gender - but not her looks - to advance far beyond her actual talent in a field where she had absolutely no practical military experience. For those paying attention to the intersectional lottery, she is the first woman to serve in the position for the Army.

After contributing to some of the most frightening and disturbing military disasters of her generation, it will be interesting to see where her wide-eyed affirmative action superpowers take her next.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.