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She uses they/them pronouns.<ref>https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/</ref><ref>https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0</ref> |
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"We need to bring back political assassinations."<ref>https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/</ref><ref>https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0</ref> |
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“Now there’s no one left to have productive conversations with…Of course, everyone saying this, they were all male students. There were four or five male students … it just shows that white men will always empathize with the people who look like them.”<ref>https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/</ref><ref>https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0</ref> |
“Now there’s no one left to have productive conversations with…Of course, everyone saying this, they were all male students. There were four or five male students … it just shows that white men will always empathize with the people who look like them.”<ref>https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/</ref><ref>https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0</ref> |
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| + | "I do not actually advocate for political assassinations … I did not receive agreement from my professor or other students with the opinions I expressed in class, and it was wrong to imply this in my post."<ref>https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/</ref><ref>https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 11:42, 18 September 2025
Julia Xu is a second year student at Oberlin College majoring in politics and international affairs. Xu endorsed political violence after the death of Charlie Kirk.[1][2]
Xu is on the advisory board of campus group the Gender, Sexuality and Attraction Initiatives and is a member of Students for a Free Palestine.[3][4]
She uses they/them pronouns.[5][6]
Quotes
"I don’t feel bad and I don’t think that everyone deserves the right to free speech. Some people should be afraid to express their opinion in public."[9][10]
Discussing a conversation about the death of Charlie Kirk that had occured earlier:
“Now there’s no one left to have productive conversations with…Of course, everyone saying this, they were all male students. There were four or five male students … it just shows that white men will always empathize with the people who look like them.”[11][12]
After media exposure Xu retracted her earlier advocacy for political violence:
"I do not actually advocate for political assassinations … I did not receive agreement from my professor or other students with the opinions I expressed in class, and it was wrong to imply this in my post."[13][14]
"I do not condone political violence, and my comments were tactless."[15][16]
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0
- ↑ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/
- ↑ https://archive.is/wip/UQdv0