After months of threats and harassment over his conservative views, a Boston University student has quit the school, fearing for his safety.
Nicholas Fuentes, 18, said that he is abandoning his Political Science degree because he longer feels safe on campus due to death threats, Fox News reported.
Fuentes, who is of Mexican descent, attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. He said that he, like many others, did not go to the rally to support racist views. Fuentes instead considers himself a “preservationist”—a conservative opposed to immigration.
“I went to represent this new strain of conservatives, of people in the right wing who are opposed to mass immigration and multiculturalism,” Fuentes said on Thursday.
“For a long time, this existed on the fringes. I thought it was a political victory—we exposed the removal of Confederate statues, and this disenfranchised group of white males,” he added.
Fuentes believes that most people at the rally did not come to support racism or white supremacy. He doesn’t regret attending.
