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This week two short video clips exploded across social media. Both show California university professors urging violence — one by naming and doxxing an ICE agent, the other by telling a crowd to “get ready for war in the streets.” The footage is raw, reckless, and exactly the sort of behavior Americans should expect less of from campus leaders, not more.
The videos: what they show
One clip features Melina Abdullah, Professor of Pan‑African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, speaking at an off‑campus immigrant‑rights summit. In the circulating clips she names an ICE officer, points to a possible hotel and repeats an exhortation that many listeners heard as “f**k him up.” She also urged the crowd to read revolutionary texts and “study guerrilla warfare.”
The second clip captures Rudolph “Butch” Ware, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at a national Marxism conference. Ware tells attendees that many “revolutionaries have never been in a f**king gunfight” and warns “Y’all ain’t nowhere near ready for a war in the streets. You better get ready for both kinds of war.” Both clips were clipped and reposted widely this week.
Why this matters: doxxing and calls for violence are dangerous
Doxxing a named federal officer and encouraging violence is not a debate tactic. It is a public safety risk. Naming an individual and giving a location invites harassment or worse. Similarly, urging people to prepare for street warfare crosses from provocation into potential criminal conduct. Free speech matters, but speech that directs or incites violence is not protected from consequences — moral, professional, or legal.
Universities’ weak responses and the problem of campus radicalism
Cal State LA and the California State University system issued a statement saying the remarks were made off campus and in an individual capacity, and that the university does not condone threats or violence. UCSB has not released a widely reported matching defense at the time of this writing. That “off‑campus” shrug is an old play: defend radical rhetoric as private opinion while hoping the headlines go away. If our colleges won’t enforce basic standards of conduct, taxpayers and parents should demand answers.
What accountability should look like
Accountability means three things. First, produce the unedited recordings and let the public see the full context. Second, campus administrations should open formal reviews of faculty conduct and apply real sanctions where policy was violated. Third, law‑enforcement should at least determine whether the comments cross the legal line into threats or incitement; as of reporting, no criminal charges have been announced, but prosecutors can review the tapes. Calls for violence and doxxing deserve investigation, not silence.
Conservatives should not be surprised or timid here. This is a clear moment to demand standards. Push universities to act, insist on full transparency, and stop pretending that rhetoric like this is merely “passionate” scholarship. Colleges are supposed to teach responsibility and critical thinking — not hand out how‑to manuals for harassment or glorify street violence. If they won’t, citizens must.
