Boston University Student Won't Return, Alleges Death Threats For Conservative Views

An 18-year-old college freshman and supporter of President Donald Trump said he will not be returning to Boston University due in part to death threats he received for his conservative views.

“It’s becoming very dangerous,” Nicholas J. Fuentes said in a phone interview with the Boston Globe Tuesday. “Massachusetts, and Boston in particular, are among the most left wing states and cities. Probably anywhere I would go would be safer than Boston.”

Fuentes, an Illinois native who hosts a YouTube talk called “America First,” told the Globe that he had received 15 death threats over email and social media.

Fuentes attended the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend. He said that although the rally was attended by white supremacists, that he did not espouse those views.

The rally centered around Charlottesville’s decision, pending a court case, to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Far-right groups including white supremacists and white nationalists gathered in protest.

The weekend resulted in violent clashes. A man with ties to white supremacist views killed one woman and injured 19 when he drove his car into a group of counter-protesters.

“We can talk about black pride, Latino pride, and gay pride all day long but talk about white pride, or pride in European heritage, and you're suddenly an apologist for Adolf Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan,” Fuentes posted on Facebook Wednesday. “Enough is enough! I'm sick of being asked to condemn or apologize for racism every 15 minutes for being born white. Think of it!”

Fuentes said that he thought the rally was against “immigration, multiculturalism, and post-modernism,” according to the Globe.

Fuentes first gained notoriety at Boston University when he posted on Twitter that “multiculturalism is a cancer.” He has since deleted all of his Tweets.

The university produced a series of videos depicting students talking about who they support in the 2016 Election. Fuentes was featured in one video talking about his support for Trump.

“Political correctness and the multicultural movement in America are subverting any effort that a conservative could ever make to change the country,” Fuentes said in the video.

The video prompted a campus debate last year in which Fuentes espoused views against multiculturalism.

“It has nothing to do with race, everything to do with culture. Asia has taken our culture and done well for themselves. The Middle East? Not so much,” said Fuentes, according to student newspaper the Daily Free Press, last year.

Fuentes did not specify whether the decision not to return to school is for a single semester or is indefinite. Fuentes has not returned International Business Times' request for comment.