Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman was murdered last week by an illegal immigrant. That’s an uncontroversial statement on a controversial killing — or is it? The Loyola Phoenix felt the need to apologize for referring to the alleged killer as an “illegal immigrant” in their coverage.
The school paper explained the change by declaring that “no human’s existence is illegal, and we quickly changed our wording to reflect that. We acknowledge the harm such language can cause.”
This is typical leftist politics for you. Protect the feelings of illegal immigrant murderers, but not the lives of young women. Nobody thinks the alleged murderer’s existence is illegal, but his presence in this country objectively is. The editors of the Loyola Phoenix surely understand that fact, but opted to vindicate the idea that “leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.”
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The truth of the matter is that the man who allegedly shot 18-year-old Gorman in the back, killing her, should never have been allowed in this country. He was released into the United States by the Biden administration and, shortly thereafter, arrested on charges of shoplifting, then released rather than being deported. Liberals should apologize for open border and restorative justice policies that get people like Gorman killed every day, not for referring to an illegal immigrant as an illegal immigrant.
The Left gets offended when the Trump administration refers to them as “illegal aliens,” which is laughably unserious in its own right, but to apologize for using a more politically correct term — because it’s not politically correct enough — is insane.
Protecting the feelings of criminals over the safety of women results in preventable harm. Case in point: allowing men into women’s bathrooms and fitting rooms, so their feelings don’t get hurt, leads to dozens of sexual misconduct incidents ranging from voyeurism to assault.
The notion that anyone can cross the border and identify as a “resident,” the term The Loyola Phoenix claims they should have used instead of “illegal immigrant,” and have the same rights as U.S. citizens, is just as dangerous as the idea that any man can just identify as a woman and be recognized as one.
Normal people don’t buy into these fringe ideas. It’s no wonder that an ad targeting former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election cycle, over her support for taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants, was so effective. The “Kamala is for they/them” campaign has been credited with shifting the presidential race by 2.7 percentage points in favor of President Donald Trump, and may have been the deciding factor in the election.
This liberal lunacy, particularly on college campuses, is precisely why Ben Shapiro’s famous phrase, “Facts don’t care about your feelings,” has resonated with so many young conservatives. It doesn’t matter what you “feel like” is true — the facts are the facts. And the fact is, if liberals cared more about protecting young women than the feelings of criminal illegal immigrants, Gorman would still be alive.