A pair of students at the University of South Florida refused to condemn the Iranian regime during a bizarre streetside debate — and eagerly accepted a one-way ticket to the war-torn country for a “little trip around the Middle East.”
The students, an LGBTQ man and an aspiring nurse, were cornered by conservative social media personality Kaitlin Bennett for a poll about the US and Israel’s war with Iran.
When asked if Iran or America would be “better for women,” the chatty nurse bashed the US for “how we handled the Epstein files” and claimed that she’d flee to Iceland if given the option.
Bennett, stunned by the woman’s limited critiques of the Iranian regime, reiterated her question, which only prompted an increasingly awkward back-and-forth.
“I think women have a right to choose where they want to live and what they want to follow,” the student said.
“In Iran?” Bennett balked.
“In Iran, yeah. I think that people have misconceptions about religion, especially with Muslims in Islamic regions,” the student said.
The student, who noted she is on some type of prescribed medication, fidgeted the entire interview. She wore a T-shirt that had the text “Don’t Touch Me Kitty I’m Edging” emblazoned above a picture of a chiseled werewolf.
While Bennett steamrolled on, imploring the pair to condemn the Iranian regime, the student took her admiration a step further and shrugged off slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s laundry list of war crimes, claiming that “we have a dictator in [America].”
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Bennett seized on the opportunity and offered to buy the woman and her male friend, who was quiet through most of the confrontation, a one-way ticket to Iran — which they happily accepted.
The nurse-to-be noted that she would accept a ticket to Iran, but “take a little trip around the Middle East” when she landed.
Bennett warned the pair that they “wouldn’t be safe in Iran.”
“I think it’s disturbing, and it’s very sad, that you won’t condemn or even say ‘Iran is not safe for women’. It’s not even safe for dogs. It’s not safe for gay people, or anyone,” Bennett said.
“You’re gonna walk around and try to tell me that [America] is a worse place to be, as a woman, than Iran?” she added.
“Would you like to be a primary source? We can go to Iran and we could, like, hold hands,” the nursing student teased.
“I wouldn’t even hold hands with you in America,” a fed-up Bennett flatly rejected.
Bennett’s team organized a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the two students just after the interview wrapped on Monday. The fundraiser remedied Bennett’s original offer to two round-trip tickets, bumping up the estimated cost to $2,400.
“Please consider supporting the cause to free these students from their oppression,” Bennett wrote.
Bennett claimed that the proceeds would alternatively go to the Options For Women Pregnancy Help Clinic, which is “strategically located right next to Polk County’s only remaining abortion facility.”
The fundraiser just cleared the $2,000 mark as of Wednesday afternoon.
Bennett, 30, made a name for herself as a student at Kent State University when she went viral in 2018 for posting a controversial photo of her strutting to graduation with an automatic assault rifle slung over her shoulder.
