Julia Xu

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.

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.

She uses they/them pronouns.

Quotes

"We need to bring back political assassinations."

"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."

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.”

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."

"I do not condone political violence, and my comments were tactless."