Two days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk on the campus of Utah Valley University, Gen Z conservative journalist Cam Higby set up a table at the University of Washington with a simple sign: “Nobody should be killed for their opinions.”
Born of tragedy. Met with overwhelming agreement. And not just from conservatives. Students across the spectrum offered condolences and nodded to the obvious: speech should never be answered with violence.
Here’s another angle of this lunatic ripping my sign off my table just after challenging me to mutual combat.
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) September 13, 2025
“I am shaking I’m so angry, I hate you so much!” pic.twitter.com/45O9Yj0m7G
That matters. It proves this isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a human one.
But it takes guts to hold that sign on a modern campus. Free expression has become a dangerous sport. And the warning signs have been flashing for years.
Back in February 2017, UC Berkeley became ground zero for the free-speech wars. British conservative Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak. What supposedly started as a peaceful protest turned into chaos when 150 masked Antifa rioters stormed the scene. Windows smashed. Fires lit. Rocks and fireworks hurled. Police stood down. Event canceled. Damage: six figures. Lesson: violence works if authorities let it.
Milo Yiannopoulos on @UCBerkeley riot: "That is the price you pay for being a libertarian or conservative on American college campuses." pic.twitter.com/XiSSjSj1KH
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 3, 2017
Fast-forward to April 2024. Conservative journalist Anthony Cabassa is robbed and beaten at UCLA while covering pro-Palestine protests. Campus police? Just yards away. They didn’t move.
Two months later, June 2024. Higby himself is mobbed at UCLA. Pulled, shoved, cornered. His gear ripped at, his phone nearly stolen. Again, no arrests, no consequences, no deterrence. Violence rewarded with silence.
🚨MOB of rioters @UCLA grab my harness and pull me, while also pushing me from behind until I’m cornered, they then begin to hit me and grab for my phone.
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) June 11, 2024
Credit to @allen4liberty for filming pic.twitter.com/qWnnt0gp82
And then September 2025: the unthinkable. Charlie Kirk, assassinated on a college campus for daring to speak his mind.
The dots aren’t hard to connect. Universities knew violence against conservatives was rising. They knew police were standing down. They knew intimidation was becoming the norm. And they let it happen anyway.
Read More: Rest in Peace, Charlie Kirk
Nobody deserves to be beaten for recording a protest. Nobody deserves to be mobbed for disagreeing with the mob. And nobody deserves to be assassinated for their opinions. Period.
But intimidation only works if people submit to it.
Higby hasn’t.
Despite being shoved, threatened, and assaulted, he’s still out there. Still tabling. Still engaging students. Still refusing to let the bullies set the boundaries of debate. His sign at UW wasn’t just about Kirk.
It was about the First Amendment itself.
This is the real fork in the road: Will America’s universities be places where debate and dissent thrive? Or will they be ruled by fear, fists, and bullets?
The left wants silence. They want conservatives to stay home. To shut up. To disappear.
But every time Cam Higby plants his feet on hostile ground, every time he holds up a simple truth on a piece of cardboard, he proves courage is contagious.
And he’s not slowing down.
On Sunday, Higby announced the launch of “The Fearless Tour” alongside David Khait. It's a nationwide push to bring dialogue, debate, and discussion to campuses and communities coast to coast.
The Fearless Tour starts HERE at Georgia State @David_Khait pic.twitter.com/pryRIe81aF
— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) September 15, 2025
Their mission is simple but radical in today’s climate: defend free speech peacefully, boldly, and without apology. And their message is clear: the mob may try to silence, but they won’t succeed.
Not when young conservatives like Higby and Khait are willing to plant their feet and speak the truth fearlessly.
That’s the lesson for conservatives everywhere. The mobs can scream, shove, and attack, but they cannot erase the truth.
Unless we let them…
The nation’s elite academic institutions have lost the plot and become full-on indoctrination centers.
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