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.