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How a "diaper protest" imploded a conservative student group

Meet Turning Point USA, an astroturf right-wing student group that became the butt of the joke

By DEIDRE OLSEN

PUBLISHED MARCH 25, 2018

On October 18, 2017, members of right-wing student group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) staged a protest against safe spaces by dressing up in diapers and soothers on the campus of Kent State University during “Free Speech Week.” The idea was to make fun of the political left by dressing up as literal babies. But in the process, TPUSA itself became the butt of a joke, mocked as “Toilet Paper USA” and turned into a viral meme by the Twitter left.

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The so-called diaper incident may end up being TPUSA’s undoing, or at least the beginning of the end. The group has since come under intense scrutiny and criticism for its controversial and plodding "activism," and in turn, has lost funding and had members resign.

Since its inception, TPUSA has been a right-wing success story, reaping millions in donation revenue annually, being backed by major Republican party donors and becoming one of the most prominent conservative student groups in the United States, in part due to its online organizing prowess and savviness using memes and image macros to appeal to millennials. TPUSA was founded in 2012 by then 18-year-old Charlie Kirk, a right-wing activist from a wealthy Chicago suburb. At the time, Kirk had been rejected from West Point Military Academy, which he blamed on affirmative action. A non-student, Kirk decided to create the student advocacy group.

Charlie Kirk met Foster Friess, a businessman and prominent Republican donor, at the 2012 Republican National Convention. Kirk successfully pitched TPUSA to Friess, landing him a six-figure donation to finance his burgeoning organization; Friess now serves on the advisory council. Since becoming the astroturf group of choice for wealthy right-wing types, TPUSA has grown to more than 1,000 university and high school chapters across the United States. In 2014, TPUSA had $2 million in contribution revenue, which ballooned to more than $4.3 million by the end of the 2015 fiscal year, as ProPublica noted. Leaked documents have shown that this money was secretly used to fund conservative student government campaigns.

While TPUSA has a “mission of identifying, organizing, and empowering free market activists” in the predominantly liberal ecosystem of academia, its methods of outreach and activism to conservative students have proven controversial. For instance, in 2016, TPUSA launched “Professor Watchlist,” a directory of liberal, so-called “un-American” professors for conservative students to keep an eye on. The website says its purpose is “to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

Professor Watchlist has come under a storm of criticism. In an unrelated 2016 event, a Donald Trump supporter named Carl Higbie suggested that Japanese internment camps set a historical precedent for Trump’s proposed Muslim Registry. With the launch of the liberal surveillance site, TPUSA’s watchlist has been scrutinized in these comments. Cataloging a liberal professor’s name, location, photo and alleged offenses into a database sets a terrifying premise for the implications of conservative activism.

Throughout its existence, TPUSA has been a meme-making machine, blasting out content reminiscent of the internet’s earlier days. Its main Twitter account and university chapter accounts spew an unending stream of stock photos overlain with quotes in Impact font such as “Big Government Sucks,” “Crying Doesn't Solve Problems,” “Not Everyone Is A Winner” and “There Are No Safe Spaces.” The right-wing group sells T-shirts with similar messaging in its online store, including “Guns Save Lives," “Socialism Sucks," “I Love Capitalism" and "Taxation Is Theft.”

What may have been a conservative force to reckon with due to its seven-figure financial backing has instead almost undone itself altogether through its laughable, meme-worthy attempts to rile up campus leftists. At a Chicago Socialist Conference, TPUSA members attempted to out-argue leftists by using one-liners like "You have some nice Nikes on!" and "You like those good capitalist french fries?" Elsewhere, the TPUSA chapter of University of California, San Diego, hosted a free speech event at which it had a massive inflatable beach ball on which attendees were to write messages, often intentionally offensive ones. However, a pocket knife–wielding leftist student who called himself “Karl Marx” popped said balloon, prompting TPUSA to call in campus security over the perceived violation of its safe space.

While Professor Watchlist is undoubtedly terrifying and dystopian, TPUSA has demonstrated that the thought process behind a good portion of its activism and outreach is half-baked. Now that the activist group can't tweet or post without some lefty troll calling up the “Toilet Paper USA” insult, TPUSA’s latest attempts to stir the political pot have backfired. Charlie Kirk himself has become a meme after tweeting a photo of himself scowling in a white button-up shirt and hands on hips on a white background. The image reads “God is real. Taxes are theft. There are only 2 genders. USA is the best country ever. Socialism kills. Hillary should be in prison." The photo of Charlie Kirk was parodied by other Twitter users, captioning their renditions with “When that last episode of The Handmaid's Tale hits a bit too close to the mark" and "When your mom forgot to wash your other white button downs.”

With much of TPUSA’s efforts inadvertently becoming fodder for lefty enthusiasm, it’s uncertain where the conservative student group is headed next. What’s certain is that in spite of its bank account, the group has done little to upset its opponents and, in fact, has lost many of its own. In the comedic aftermath of the diaper incident, Kaitlin Bennett, the former Kent State University TPUSA president, wrote an angry resignation letter.

“As of right now, I am in disbelief at how I went from being so upbeat, enthusiastic, and passionate about this organisation to being disgusted, frustrated, and embarrassed to have invested my entire senior year into an organisation founded by a college dropout who hires some of the most incompetent, lazy, and downright dishonest people I have ever encountered,” she wrote.

As the now-suspended Twitter account of Kent State University TPUSA (@TPUSAatKent) put it in a tweet from February 12, 2018: "Charlie Kirk[,] you should’ve been the one in the diaper."

DEIDRE OLSEN

Deidre Olsen is a Toronto-based digital marketer and writer whose work has appeared in Refinery29, New York Magazine’s The Cut, Brooklyn Magazine, Narratively, and more. Follow them on Twitter @deidrelolsen

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...As mentioned in our first installment, this is all part of a broader pattern of overlap between the far-right, including the white nationalist right, with right-wing Catholicism.In 2017, groyper leader Milo Yiannapoulos was drummed out of many right-wing movementsfor statements he made minimizing child sex abuse, and subsequently used his return to Catholicism as an opportunity to rebrand.

This March he headlined an anti-abortion convention in Ohio that was blessed by the local Catholic bishop, and in June he will be a featured speaker at a Church Militant Resistance bootcamp. Canadian white nationalist Faith Goldy, who was disgraced after appearing on the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, likewise touted her return to the church as part of her rehabilitation. "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander found his way to a new audience at the end of 2020 with a highly public conversion to Catholicism, as did "Kent State gun girl" Kaitlin Bennett in late 2021. They joined a core group of far-right activists who have deployed their Catholic identity in service of their movements, including Pizzagate provocateur-turned conservative commentator Jack Posobiec, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Fuentes himself. 

As the alt-right was planning its 2017 march in Charlottesville, Virginia, one of the most popular places where activists did their planning was a Discord chat forum called the "Nick Fuentes forum," dedicated to exploring connections between "Unite the Right" and the Catholic Church. Within it, hundreds of posters discussed traditionalist Catholicism and posted memes alternating, or combining, Crusades-era imagery with neo-Nazi and antisemitic content.

As journalist Eric Martin reported at the liberal Christian magazine Sojourners, some posters identified themselves as "Charles Coughlin Roman Catholics," for the 1930s pro-fascist priest and broadcaster who helped pioneer the demagogic media style that is fracturing our democracy today. Fuentes himself has waxed nostalgic about fascist and monarchist regimes in Europe and Latin America that were grounded in Catholic teaching, and in 2018 declared on a livestream that, "in an ideal world," there would be "a global Catholic theocracy" and that "the state should enforce morality that is informed by Catholic teaching."

More broadly online, far-right activists online began adopting phrases like "Viva Cristo Rey" (Christ the King) or "Deus Vult" (God wills it) in their posts and tweets, and Catholic symbolism like medieval crosses and Crusader imagery. 

Some conservative Catholics have welcomed this development. In a 2019 article published by the Catholic right magazine Crisis, "Kids in defense of the culture," American Greatness editor Pedro Gonzalez praised Fuentes' groypers. "They have chosen to be guided by a Christianity hammered free of the dross of the modern world," Gonzalez wrote. "In an age of compromise and petty principles, groypers have chosen to stand for something, armed with little more than digital slingshots. That alone is reason enough to hear them out."

Some conservative Catholics have embraced the groypers, arguing that they "have chosen to be guided by a Christianity hammered free of the dross of the modern world."

But moderate and liberal Catholics were appalled."It's such a horrifying appropriation of Catholicism," noted writer and researcher D.W. Lafferty in a 2020 podcast episode produced by Where Peter Is, a moderate Catholic website that tracks the Catholic right. Lafferty described the new far-right aesthetic as"Pepe Catholicism," while Georgetown University theologian Adam Rasmussen called it "Catholic LARPing": a way for the alt-right to pretend they were "Knights Templar fighting the forces of darkness in the deep state."

As Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb, author of the papal biography "The Outsider: Pope Francis and His Battle to Reform the Church," explained during the 2020 presidential campaign, the far right's adoption of Catholic symbolism was a means for the movement to infuse itself with deeper spiritual meaning. "The populists and nationalists were looking for some kind of soul for their politics. And they found it in some symbols of the faith," Lamb said. "And they're powerful symbols. Quite often they make the whole case that the past has been lost."

"In a sense, you empty the content of the religious," Lamb noted earlier this year, "and use the externals — the rosary beads, the crucifix, some words, perhaps some prayers — but you use it as an identity marker to give your movement a sense that it has a soul or deeper intensity at a moral level."

But that influence goes both ways, and as Lamb noted in 2020, as more and more right-wing Catholics identified themselves with Trump's re-election campaign, "Trumpism," in turn, "got into the church."

As Lafferty said at the time, "What's happening on the right, I think, is unprecedented," except for the historical examples of ultranationalist fascist groups before World War II, such as Action Française in France or the Falangist movement in Spain. "But fascism isn't new and the Catholic Church was often complicit in fascism," he added. "So it's not totally shocking that people can come in and do this."

The revelation that some highly enthusiastic and visible elements of the Catholic right are now partnering with a group whose reputation is based on snarky displays of over-the-top bigotry just marks an escalation of that trend.

"This is a continuation of a pattern that's been happening for years," said Lafferty, "and it's only going to become more intense now that we're looking at the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned." As a faithful Catholic, he agrees with the Church's stance against abortion, he said, but he also sees the imminent SCOTUS reversal as one more "pillar of what we call 'normal' falling."

kaitlin Marie Bennett (born October 15, 1995), also known as the Kent State gun girl,[1][2] is an American gun rights activist and conservativesocial media personality.[1][3][4][5] Bennett received media attention in 2018 for open-carrying an AR-10 rifle at Kent State University after graduating.[6]

She and her husband run Liberty Hangout,[7] which initially described itself as a libertarian media outlet, but beginning in 2017 has described itself as conservative.[8][9] She has contributed to the far-right website InfoWars.[4] Liberty Hangout has distanced itself from libertarians, as well as libertarian ideology, since at least 2016.[10]

Media attention

Bennett was the president of the Kent State chapter of Turning Point USA; however, after a protest against campus safe spaces backfired in October 2017, she resigned.[11][12][13] In 2018, Bennett posed for her graduation photo holding an AR-10 long gun in front of the university sign. She stated that as a student at Kent State, she should have been able to open-carry for self-defense, citing the 1970 Kent State shootings where Ohio National Guardsmen fired on unarmed students protesting the U.S. bombing of Cambodia.[14] Later that year, Bennett organized an open-carry rally at Kent State. The university released a statement that a cease and desist had been issued against advertising the event, as Bennett had not attempted to register the event with the university.[15]

Following her initial protest of Kent State, Bennett became a correspondent for InfoWars.[16] Due to her affiliation with InfoWars, she was excluded from a campaign event for Bernie Sanders.[17] She returned to Kent State in November to host a discussion on gun rights.[18] As social media users mainly associated Bennett with her gun rights activism, many media publications have referenced her "Gun Girl" nickname.[19][20][21]

In January 2020, clips surfaced online of her 2019 interviews with University of Kentucky students. Originally posted by Liberty Hangout with the title "College Students Have No Morals",[22] the videos show Bennett questioning the students on the issue of resources for transgender people in bathrooms. The clips quickly became popular on social media, with users entertained by the dichotomy between Bennett and the interviewees' reactions to the topic.[5] One student seen in the interviews used the online attention to raise money for charity.[23][24]

In February 2020, Kaitlin Bennett went to Ohio University to ask trivia questions for President's Day, but was confronted by an extremely large crowd of college students opposing her. Drinks and other objects, including toilet paper, were hurled at her.[25] Chants of "where's your diaper?"[26] and "shit your pants”[27] were heard in reference to an unsubstantiated rumor that she defecated in her pants while attending a Kent State fraternity party. In October, Bennett was similarly ridiculed when visiting the University of Central Florida.[28]

Holocaust denial controversy

Bennett's Liberty Hangout outlet received criticism for statements on Twitter supporting antisemitism, Holocaust denial, monarchy, and disfranchisement.[29][30] On January 30, 2016, the Liberty Hangout Twitter account released a tweet that ran a poll to the public asking the following, "Asking out of curiosity. Do you believe the Holocaust happened as we've been told?" with two possible options for twitter users to select, "Yes", or "Not exactly." A Twitter user commented in response, "What do you think??", to which the Liberty Hangout Twitter account responded, "It doesn't seem possible that 6 million were killed." Media outlet Snopes reached out to Liberty Hangout for a comment without a response before the post was deleted.[31]

Personal life

In May 2018, Bennett graduated with a degree in biology from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.[14]

Bennett became engaged to Justin Moldow, the founder of Liberty Hangout, in 2019.[29][32] They married in a Catholic ceremony in March 2020.[33] On April 6, 2022, she announced the birth of their first child on Twitter.

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Feb 18, 20203:08 Kent State "gun girl" Kaitlin Bennett was confronted by a mob of protesters during her visit to Ohio University on Monday. According to the university, "She drew a large crowd of people, many with opposing viewpoints, who also chose to exercise their first amendment rights."

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Kent State 'Gun Girl' Kaitlin Bennett Thronged by Student-Protesters Home News Hundreds of students at Ohio University protested 'gun girl' Kaitlin Bennett's visit and ran her off campus Isaac...

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Jan. 21 2020, Updated 5:40 p.m. ET Plenty of people likely remember the name Kaitlin Bennett — aka "Kent State Gun Girl" — from the viral photo she posted in May 2018. You know, the one in which she's holding her graduation cap in one hand and has an AR-10 rifle slung over her shoulder in the other. Yeah, that Kaitlin.

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Claire Goforth Tech Posted on Apr 16, 2020 Updated on Apr 16, 2020, 1:53 pm CDT Kaitlin Bennett, the Kent State gun girl, reportedly mocked Jewish people and made anti-Semitic jokes in private...

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January 17, 2020, 11:33 am. Another video of the infamous " Kent State gun girl " Kaitlin Bennett has gone viral after a police officer got fed up with her causing problems for everybody at an Iowa Pride event. Bennett was there to "interview" people for the Alex Jones conspiracy mill InfoWars, possibly about the location of tampons ...