Julia Xu is a radical leftist student at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, who serves on the college’s advisory board of the school’s Gender, Sexuality, and Attraction Initiatives and participates with Students for a Free Palestine.
Following the politically motivated murder of Charlie Kirk, Julia voiced her support for political assassinations as a way to silence political opponents.
In a social media post under the handle @bringbacktheguillotine, she said, “We need to bring back political assassinations.”
She continued, “I don’t feel bad and I don’t think that everyone deserves the right to free speech. Some people should be afraid to express their opinion in public.”
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BREAKING – The student who said “we need to bring back political assassinations” when asked about Charlie Kirk’s death has been identified as Julia Xu of Oberlin University, who quickly deleted and privated all social media accounts, too bad we have her school’s safety number. pic.twitter.com/iTdrPNZBZT
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) September 16, 2025
She said her statement was influenced by her learnings about Chairman Mao, then went on to misguidedly (and perhaps inadvertently) praise the Chinese leader’s authoritarianism.
Xu explained how she’d learned that after the 1949 Chinese revolution, Mao had decided “people deserve free speech, but there should not be free speech for reactionaries and imperialists and, like capitalists … because that would reverse the progress made [by the revolution].”
The Post contacted Xu, who appeared to backtrack, saying she apologizes and is “deeply remorseful” for her statements.
Although Oberlin condemned Xu’s apparent support of political violence, it does not appear that she will face any formal consequences.
Oberlin’s President Carmen Twillie Ambar said, “Last week, in an open letter, I wrote ‘there is no place for political violence in the America that I love.’ It threatens our sense of safety and well-being and it violates the sanctity of the nation’s civil discourse.”
“I want to emphasize that the views expressed in the student’s post do not reflect those of the faculty member who teaches the class referenced. Nor does the student’s post reflect the views of Oberlin College.”
The college has not addressed how it will keep conservative students safe on its campus in the face of a fellow student advocating for executions.
The Gateway Pundit has reached out to leadership at Oberlin and will update this story if they provide a comment.
Oberlin has faced prior issues with radical leftist behavior. In December 2017, TGP’s Cassandra MacDonald reported that an Ohio bakery filed a lawsuit against Oberlin and its dean for slander, after the establishment was branded as “racist” after three black men assaulted the shopkeeper and were arrested for attempting to steal wine.
Allyn Gibson, the person working at the shop at the time, was repeatedly accused of racial profiling after being assaulted by the men — though no evidence was ever provided of his alleged racism. The Oberlin Student Senate even passed a resolution claiming that Gibson had “a history of racial profiling and discriminatory treatment.”
Gibson filed a lawsuit and ultimately, Oberlin paid the bakery $36 million awarded by a jury.
