Colleges are supposed to be institutions of higher learning.
The woke mind virus has done a number on the current generation of students.
And a woke college student just gave one insane answer about leaving America for Iran.
Kaitlin Bennett’s University of South Florida Interview Just Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons
Kaitlin Bennett built her following doing man-on-the-street videos confronting college students – walking campuses with a microphone, asking questions that reveal exactly how detached from reality the American university system has become.
The University of South Florida student didn’t disappoint.
She told Bennett that Iran is better for women than America.
When Bennett pushed back, the student cited the Epstein files as her evidence.
Bennett was direct: “You have the freedom to follow whatever religion you want, including none at all, and you’re going to tell me that this is a worse place to be as a woman than Iran?”
“Yes,” the student said.
Bennett asked what the student thought happens to women in Iran.
The student responded that Iranian women have the “right to choose where they want to live and what they want to follow.”
In Iran.
Where women get executed for showing their hair in public.
Where the regime just made that punishable by death – in writing, in law, signed and enforced.
The student called these facts “misconceptions about religion.”
She said the Iranian regime was just “misunderstood.”
Her LGBT friend, standing right next to her, agreed enthusiastically to go along on the trip.
Iran’s Penal Code criminalizes same-sex activity with punishments ranging from flogging to death – and those laws are actively enforced.
Bennett’s GiveSendGo Fundraiser to Send Them to Iran Is Already Funded
Bennett didn’t just argue with them.
She offered to fund the trip.
She set up a GiveSendGo fundraiser – two round-trip tickets from Tampa to Tehran, $2,400 target.
“I’ll send you there, and you can try kissing a woman there, you try walking your dog in Tehran, and we’ll see how far you get,” Bennett told them.
The fundraiser had already raised more than $1,600 as of Wednesday.
Bennett added a condition.
If the students fail to go – can’t produce documentation, can’t meet legal travel requirements, or simply lose their nerve – every dollar goes to Options For Women Pregnancy Help Center, an anti-abortion pregnancy clinic.
Either the students go prove their point, or conservatives win anyway.
It’s a beautiful trap.
The Iran War Started the Same Week She Said It Was Safer Than America
Here’s what the students apparently missed while studying at one of Florida’s flagship public universities.
The United States and Israel launched a large-scale military offensive against Iran.
The US State Department urged Americans to leave 14 countries across the Middle East due to “serious safety risks.”
Airspace across the region is closed.
Americans already in the Middle East – tourists, business travelers, people visiting family – are stranded and desperate to get home.
“We’re honestly trapped,” one American told CBS News from Dubai, where she’d been trying to catch a connecting flight when the strikes began.
These USF students want in while everyone else is trying to get out.
This Is What Left-Wing Indoctrination Produces
This isn’t a story about two confused college students.
This is what four years of American higher education produces in 2026.
These are students who can articulate grievances about the Epstein files but cannot tell you that Iran executes women for removing their headscarves.
They call themselves pro-LGBT. They also defend a regime that throws homosexuals off rooftops.
Somebody taught them that America is uniquely oppressive – and that any regime opposing America must therefore be liberating. That somebody was their professor.
None of that makes it into the curriculum at the University of South Florida, apparently.
What does make it in: the idea that America, the country that gives you the freedom to publicly say you prefer a theocratic dictatorship, is the real oppressor.
Bennett handed these students a gift.
She gave them the chance to prove their point, with funded tickets and public attention.
The fundraiser is structured so that either they go and discover reality firsthand, or they don’t go and the money goes to an anti-abortion clinic.
Woke college kids have been brainwashed into believing that anywhere on earth is better than America under Donald Trump.
Sources:
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Will Potter, “Woke female college student and LGBT friend say they want to move TO Iran to get away from Trump,” Daily Mail, March 4, 2026.
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“US urges Americans to leave 14 countries in Middle East as Iran war escalates,” Fox News Digital, March 4, 2026.
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“Iran: New compulsory veiling law intensifies oppression of women and girls,” Amnesty International, December 17, 2024.
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“Criminalisation of LGBT People in Iran,” Human Dignity Trust, December 2024.
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Kaitlin Bennett, GiveSendGo fundraiser for Tampa-to-Tehran flights, March 2026.