Fordham University College Republicans were forced to leave an on-campus coffee shop for wearing MAGA hats.

The self-identified president of the student club that runs the coffee shop told the College Republicans that their hats “violated safe space policy” with their headgear, and that she had to evict them.

A video obtained by Campus Reform shows the leader of the student group, which runs Rodrigue’s Coffee House, telling the students they had five minutes to leave. She did not explain what would happen if they refused.

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“Get out! Five minutes,” ordered the proprietor. “I’m protecting our customers … you are wearing hats that completely violate safe space policy. You have to go.”

“We are your customers, we bought something,” a College Republican replied.

“I don’t want people like you supporting this club… no one here wants people like you supporting our club,” the woman barked. “I am giving you five minutes.”

When she was asked for an explanation, she yelled “Fascism. Nazis! Three minutes.”

Speaking to the New York Post, College Republicans member Michael Esposito called the experience “humiliating.”

“It was humiliating to be called a Nazi in front of so many people I go to school with,” he said. “It’s almost scary.”

The club president presented the College Republicans a flyer outlining the coffee shop’s “Safer Space Policy,” which reads:

Do not make assumptions about someone’s gender, sexuality, race, class, or experiences. Be aware of your own identity, while being considerate of the personhood of your peers. Be mindful of the ways in which your words and actions impact others. Be aware of the boundaries of other’s space, physical or otherwise, and respect their consent. No racism – No sexism – No homophobia. If you feel that someone has transgressed this policy, we want you to feel comfortable confronting them or approaching a member behind the counter, who is available as a resource to assist you.”

The rules make no mention of hats.

One of the students evicted from the coffee shop told Campus Reform that the group went there to test the “unwritten rule that conservatives were banned from that coffee shop.”

“We went there and just started doing some homework and studying. Then we were asked to leave,” he said, adding that he and the other students pay their tuitions and should be allowed to use any building on campus, just like any other student.

“This school is over $70,000 a year in tuition, therefore I feel that I have the right to go into all of the buildings that other students are allowed to go into. I also have the right to wear what I want to wear and express my own political views.”

Fordham University, which is investigating the incident, states that the university does not have a campus safe space policy.

“There is no University safe space policy, nor one that excludes any members of the Fordham community from any public spaces on the basis of their political views,” Fordham assistant president Bob Howe wrote. “Fordham is a community that values diverse opinions, and in which students should disagree with one another in a civil fashion.”

Sources: Campus Reform, New York Post.

Photograph courtesy of Tom Williams / Getty Images.

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