Anti-immigrant sentiment struck at Pepperdine University where the statue of the nation's first immigrant and its most notable Italian-American figure was deported to Italy.
This act of anti-immigrant hatred was orchestrated by social justice crybullies who insisted that the statue of Christopher Columbus was offensive to them. Sadly Pepperdine University bowed to their anti-immigrant sentiments.
Pepperdine University will remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from its main campus after students at the Southern California Christian school made multiple demands to take it down.
Currently located above the university’s amphitheater, the statue will be relocated to Pepperdine’s campus in Florence, Italy, President Andrew Benton told the university’s liberal arts undergraduates in a Monday email.
The statue, donated to the university in 1992 by a group representing the Columbus 500 Congress, has drawn pushback recently from Pepperdine students. Benton has previously described the group that funded the statue as “Italian-American friends” of the university.
Pepperdine’s student newspaper, The Graphic, reported that around two dozen students took to the statue’s location on Columbus Day last semester and chanted “take it down.
This intolerance toward Italian-Americans and the nation's most famous immigrant was apparently orchestrated by an anti-immigrant hate group known only as Waves Against Columbus. There were explosions of anti-immigrant sentiment from intolerant bigots at Pepperdine after the deportation of the famous Italian-American immigrant.
In response to the news, one student tweeted “Pepperdine is getting rid of our Christopher Columbus statue! Progress!” Another student replied back “I am so excited about this!”
In a statement to The College Fix, the university’s Black Student Association extolled the president’s decision.
“We are happy to finally see this come to fruition. We thank everyone involved in this movement for their hard work and dedication towards fighting for this cause,” the organization said.
It's sad that hostility toward immigrants continues to proliferate on the left. We must stand up for immigrants and protect the legacy of Columbus by resisting social justice bigotry from hate groups such as these.