Calling themselves the “Duke Open Campus Coalition,” the students say accusations that Duke is an institution steeped in racism and demands for various racial reparations has created “a climate of fear on campus” in which students who don’t agree with the claims or the demands are afraid of being personally attacked and slandered.
“We believe there is a large silent majority of students on campus who also think that a lot of these demands are pretty ludicrous, but they’re afraid to say things in public, or to publish something in the student newspaper, because they’re afraid of being attacked personally through ad hominines like ‘bigot’, ‘transphobic,’ ‘heteronormative,’ or ‘whitewashed’,” said Tyler Fredricks, a senior studying political science and economics, in an interview with The College Fix.
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