{"id":164402,"date":"2025-10-19T04:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=164402"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:28:57","slug":"conservative-princeton-student-i-never-realized-how-many-people-are-this-violent-and-hateful-i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=164402","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Princeton Student: ‘I never realized how many people are this violent and hateful. I don\u2019t know what to do with that.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was retweeted by Ann Coulter last week for my Sep. 12 post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

From today’s 2Way show: <\/p>\n

Jacob: I\u2019m a Princeton student, currently on a two-year break working in marketing for my professor. I\u2019ve been a conservative my whole life. I grew up in Seattle\u2014that\u2019s where I am now.<\/p>\n

When I was in the Ivy League, which is very left-wing, there was this unspoken rule: you had to lie to your teachers and professors, it was harder to make friends, you had to keep a tight circle.
\nThe way I saw this story, I felt it on three levels. First, the grief for his family and friends\u2014especially his daughter, who will never see her father again. Second, the thoughts about stochastic terrorism, why this happened, and how he got shot. But the third, which I didn\u2019t expect, was people I knew telling me he deserved to die.<\/p>\n

When I asked them why, young Gen Z people said it was because of his opinions\u2014on abortion, on guns, views that I\u2019ve held my entire life. One person even refused to answer whether I deserve to die. That shocked me.<\/p>\n

Scrolling through Twitter and Reddit, glued to my phone these past few days, I\u2019ve seen people openly say these things. I don\u2019t know the percentage\u2014maybe it\u2019s 5%, maybe 25%\u2014but it\u2019s a huge number of people. They don\u2019t just want assassinations of other people; they\u2019re at least undecided on the assassination of me.<\/p>\n

Mark Halperin:
\nWow, Jacob. These aren\u2019t people you know, right? These are social media interactions?<\/p>\n

Jacob:
\nThere was one person I knew who refused to answer, and then thousands more I\u2019ve seen on social media. Honestly, my question to you is: what do I do with that information? I never realized how many people are this violent and hateful. I don\u2019t know what to do with that.<\/p>\n