A Wesleyan University student who served as an Iraq War veteran and now pens a column for his college newspaper, has come under fire for daring to take on Black Lives Matter and question in his recent column if the movement has been more damaging than helpful.
And now, students, staff and activists alike are demanding via petition the university's newspaper lose its college-backed funding.
In a Wesleyan Argus piece entitled "Why Black Lives Matter Isn't What You Think," 30-year-old Bryan Stascavage wrote: "Is the movement itself actually achieving anything positive?"
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He then went on to say: "It boils down to this for me: If vilification and denigration of the police force continues to be a significant portion of Black Lives Matter's message, then I will not support the movement, I cannot support the movement. And many Americans feel the same."
It's this part that likely raised the ire of those in the activist movement, however: "Is it worth another riot that destroys a downtown district? Another death, another massacre? At one point will Black Lives Matter go back to the drawing table and rethink how they are approaching the problem?"
Stascavage then wrote those in the movement calling for "pig" police officers to "fry like bacon" ought to be condemned by the leaders of the activist group, Fox News found.
His piece, predictably perhaps, is causing quite a stir.
Stascavage said he's been slammed as racist by other students and Black Lives Matter activists alike. And some calls have grown for the school's student government to stop funding the paper. So far, a petition demanding the newspaper lose funding has received the signatures of 172.
But the university said Stascavage hasn't done anything wrong.
"As members of a university community, we always have the right to respond with our own opinions, but there is not a right not to be offended," said Wesleyan University president Michael Roth, Fox News reported.
Roth also said in a blog post that included the signed support of provost Joyce Jacobsen and vice president for equality and inclusion Antonio Farias: "Debates can raise intense emotions, but that doesn't mean that we should demand ideological conformity because people are made uncomfortable."