New Era Colorado, a nonprofit political advocacy group, has once again demanded that the University of Colorado Boulder close its Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization — a bastion of conservative thought at the school that’s become notorious for some of the controversial scholars it’s employed.
A period of U.S. history in the 1950’s known as the “Lavender Scare,” when thousands of queer people in government positions were fired without due process, leading to the painful public outings of gay people and the suicides of former government workers, is comparable to being conservative in today’s America.
