Ted Cruz: Princeton Protesters are Pampered Teenagers

Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz weighed in on recent protests at Princeton University, calling protesters at his alma mater “pampered teenagers who are scared of an idea that challenges their worldview,” in a recent interview with The Guardian.

Protesters with the Black Justice League recently staged a 32-hour sit-in on the University’s campus, where they requested to have former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s name removed from college buildings and programs. They also requested to have his mural removed from the Wilcox Dining Hall.

The Princeton University Board of Trustees has developed a subcommittee that will handle how the University recognizes Wilson, who is also a former University President. He supported segregation, and appointed Cabinet members who segregated federal departments.

Cruz called it “ironic” that the protesters are targeting a progressive Democrat like Wilson, and that the protests are “antithetical to the mission of a university.”

He added that Wilson should be denounced for being an unmitigated racist, but our history shouldn’t be sanitized because “our ears are too fragile to recognize that the course of human existence has been a complicated course beset with human frailty.”

Cruz weighed in on his alma mater in an interview published one day before he is scheduled to visit New Jersey. He will announce his New Jersey leadership team in Rahway during a press conference on Thursday.

Read more of Cruz’s interview at theguardian.com.