Communism! Still scary, apparently.

At least to a gaggle of Republicans at Texas Tech University in Lubbock who want to bar civil rights activist Angela Davis from speaking on their campus, according to Fox 34 News.

Said Carl Tepper, chair of the Lubbock County Republican Party and, seemingly, one of those whom the passage of time and the culture wars forgot: “I would rather hear from someone who has respect among the community.”

But wait. Angela Davis doesn’t like Lubbock? And what did Lubbock ever do to her?

Well, Tepper further clarified his position—if you can call it that—by asking, “Why wouldn’t we at every opportunity inject positive role models into our young people, rather than someone who’s so angry all the time and has nothing but consternation against the American dream?”

Now we see. She’s an angry, scary black women who once said mean things about the prison-industrial complex, one of our most glorious of flawed, racist institutions.

Got it.

Davis likely couldn’t care less about the GOP’s amount of complaining. She is, after all, a legendary counterculturalist and scholar who went through the realest of deals.

What can Lubbock Republicans do that hasn’t already been done to her? She’s already been targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, was nearly locked up for life on false charges and had to live with this hot unconstitutional mess.