"Silence is violence!"
How many times have we heard Leftists say or scream that, in an effort to browbeat people into agreeing with their policy positions or to compel preferred speech? Far too often.
Yet I can't help but notice that at least one die-hard Leftist institution, the University of Wisconsin, seems pretty tight-lipped about an abhorrently violent sign found on campus. So does Wisconsin media, it seems, because I live in the Dairy State and didn't hear a word about this until this post from the Wisconsin College Republicans crossed my timeline.
13 days later and we’ve yet to see any comment regarding this blatant call for violence found in a UW Madison building. @uwchancellor Your silence is implicit support. https://t.co/I1m8KJVvMC
— Wisconsin College Republicans (@WICRs) November 26, 2025
More violent imagery appeared near the University of Wisconsin-Madison late last week, mirroring similar imagery found on the public school's campus over a span of weeks, according to two students at the school.
"The only good fascist is a dead fascist," read one image photographed by Aiden Wirth, a student at the school and a writer at an independent student newspaper called The Madison Federalist, which first published the imagery.
Ben Rothove, the editor-in-chief of the paper, also captured some of the displays.
An image with the same message hanging on a bicycle road sign, which also depicted an image of a fist punching a bloodied pig, also recently appeared. Another image hanging on a bicycle road sign depicted a fist holding a smoking pistol to the head of someone in a Ku Klux Klan hood as blood squirts out of the figure's head. The caption on that image reads, "Speak their language."
A couple of months ago, flyers appeared on the Georgetown campus promoting the "John Brown Club," featuring the slogan "Hey Fascist, Catch!" That slogan is a reference to something inscribed on the bullets found after the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a Leftist on September 10.
As I wrote at the time:
John Brown was a militant abolitionist who believed in the use of violence to end slavery. This led to Brown's involvement in the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1855, where he and a few other men dragged five unarmed men and boys from their homes. Believing those men and boys were pro-slavery, Brown and his group killed them. In 1859, Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in the hopes of sparking a slave uprising and establishing "an independent stronghold of formerly enslaved people in the Adirondack Mountains." The raid failed, and Brown was seriously wounded. Federal troops apprehended and tried Brown for treason. He was later hanged.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon called the posters "appalling" and demanded action from Georgetown. The University issued a statement, saying, "Georgetown University has no tolerance for calls for violence or threats to the university. The flyers have been removed, and the university is investigating this incident and working to ensure the safety of our community."
John Lucas, a campus spokesperson, did reach out to Fox News, "As we’ve said previously, UW-Madison continues to condemn violence of all kinds. If a student is in need of support of any kind, they are encouraged to reach out and meet with our Office of Student Assistance and Support. If stickers are found on campus by individuals, they can be reported to UWPD to be investigated and removed."
What a milquetoast statement.
Compare this with how UW-Madison reacted when Leftist students got mad about a rock on campus that they deemed "racist." The school removed the rock and the Chancellor at the time, Rebecca Blank, issued a statement about that racist rock:
On August 6, the University of Wisconsin–Madison removed a 42-ton boulder formerly known as Chamberlin Rock from our main campus. This was not, as some have assumed, a knee-jerk decision. Rather, it came after more than a year of in-depth conversations with stakeholders from across the spectrum, engaging in the process of shared governance.
Members of the Wisconsin Black Student Union and Wunk Sheek (a Native American student organization) met with the Campus Planning Committee to present their point of view and the harm they described. That Committee also heard from members of the geology department, researchers, historians, campus leadership, the Ho Chunk tribe, and others. The Campus Planning Committee, after thoughtful deliberation, recommended moving the rock and I endorsed this action.
The process began in the summer of 2020. I listened as WBSU and Wunk Sheek members explained why they saw the rock as a symbol of anti-Blackness. I’m sure you remember that time. It was the first summer of COVID-19 and our campus community was bewildered, overwhelmed and in pain. On May 25, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, sparking a protest movement around the world.
Conservatives at UW-Madison do not enjoy that same level of concern from Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin, who hasn't issued a statement or condemnation.
Campus police are investigating the signs, for all the good it'll do.
The Left has a violence problem. Earlier today, I wrote about a Michigan man arrested for threatening the GOP in his state, including a desire to "put a bullet" in the head of the MI GOP Youth Chair Krish Mathrani, as well as a wish to "eradicate" GOP donors. That last part especially stood out to me, because now, donating to the GOP is enough to warrant a death sentence? It sure seems that the Left is moving that way.
And where is the "silence is violence" crowd?
Their silence is deafening.