Survivor of Mao’s China Warns UD Students About ‘American Cultural Revolution’
NEWARK, Del.—After being rejected by a Christian university, Chinese-American activist Xi Van Fleet received a warm welcome from students at the University of Delaware (UD) as she shared her story of growing up in China during Mao’s cultural revolution.
On May 1, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) held a seminar titled “Xi Van Fleet: Survivor of Communist China” at UD’s Gore Hall. Nearly 30 students came to hear Van Fleet talk about China’s disastrous cultural revolution, a disaster that Xi says could happen here in America.
Van Fleet began her talk by saying that she had just returned from Washington state, where the TPUSA chapter at Whitworth University, a Christian university, had invited her to speak. However, its student government voted against Xi’s speech, claiming that she holds “harmful views.”…