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Graduation is is a time to celebrate and not be distracted by the (few or many) liberals clowns who want everyone's voice to be heard, unless they disagree with that person's politics. And who will most likely find some way to disrupt the ceremony for EVERYONE.
Someone had a point, and I'm paraphrasing here:
"Such phony outrage from a bunch of children who were barely out of diapers during the Bush years".
so the faculty at Rutgers were barely out of diapers? And that old line about "everyone be heard unless they disagree" is a bunch of B.S. get a new talking point. Lots of people were opposed to the Iraq war including Conservative Darling Ron Paul.
Condi actually has class and knows what stupid liberal 20-somethings will do to ruin a long awaited graduation ceremony for the rest. No consideration will they have, at all.
And the morons who spoke out, protested and stormed Old Queens have a lot to learn. They aren't always going to have liberal professors (with TENURE...not one without didn't protest along) stroking their egos and protesting along with them. They'll be on their own, and when they get a job and remove their heads out of their asses and see what they "earned" vs. what they "keep" and where the difference goes ...that's when they start shedding the skin of liberalism.
RU didn't let the vocal minority have a say in how things are "gon" work. Condi backed out on her own, and gracefully. Who needs a bunch of clowns disturbing a great day for THE FEW who aren't political arse-hats? What it speaks to is the INTOLERANCE the vocal liberal minority exudes at RU. Nice bunch of hypocrites.
Race traitor?
What does that mean? Is there some "race code"?
So what are black democrats?
Race patriots?
I'm sorry but Condi backs out because 50 people protested at a school the size of Rutgers? C'mon.
i would have rather had her speak at my commencement at RU than the speaker i ended up with. the previous years winner of "the apprentice". still dont know who he was
Lots of war-mongering/draft dodging heroes of the Fox News set still available. Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol. Maybe they can explain why we have hundreds of billions for a made-up war but hardly any money for higher education.
"Such phony outrage from a bunch of children who were barely out of diapers during the Bush years".
I wasn't going to comment on this as I don't really have a strong opinion about what happened at Rutgers, but this is just an idiotic statement that reeks of the inability to do basic math. I understand that it is not your statement and you're quoting someone else, but I would just like to clarify that it's pretty inaccurate.
I just graduated college last year. Barely out of diapers during the Bush years? I remember his entire presidency, the bulk of which was while I was in high school (his entire second term). I remember the Bush/Gore election and the hanging chads and waiting by the TV with Florida still too close to call. I remember 9/11 vividly (you could see the smoke from the roof of my school). I was 11 years old. I remember having debates and mock elections during the Bush/Kerry election and I remember watching election coverage in school with my classmates.
Sure, I wasn't old enough to vote for or against Bush, but I was definitely old enough to have an opinion. By the end of the Bush presidency, I was almost of voting age (2008 was the first election I voted in). So to say that these college students don't understand enough of her politics to have an opinion about this because they aren't old enough is just bogus, whether you agree with their opinion or not.
All of that aside, even if someone was "just out of diapers," does that somehow invalidate their opinion? I'm sure pretty much everyone here has an opinion on many historical events, such as the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, etc. But, not everyone here was alive when all of those things happened. However, that doesn't mean that they aren't allowed to have an opinion about them. As long as you are well read on a subject, you are perfectly capable of having an informed opinion. If these college students understand and know Rice's politics and her past actions and they don't want her to speak on their campus, that is perfectly valid whether you agree or not. How old they were when she was in office does not invalidate their opinion if it is informed.
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Originally Posted by JerseyGirl415
Exaclty. As someone not far from their age, let me tell you this: they think they know. They think they know a lot, but they don't. They still have so much to learn, so much growing up to do, and so much experience needed in the real world. Most of them will change. The bleeding heart tendencies goes away with age and life experience in many cases. They're still at that point where they actually think they can change the world, make a difference, that type of typical college-age thinking. Makes me roll my eyes, I really can't stand it.
Also as someone "not far from their age," your comment makes me incredibly sad. My beliefs and my values are not some phase I'm going to grow out of. Give me a break. I work and earn money now and my political views have changed very little from when I was in college and didn't have a job. And you know what? As a scientist doing groundbreaking work and surrounded by others doing groundbreaking work I don't just think I'm going to change the world, I know I will. I shudder to think where the world would be if it was full of people like you. People that have hope for the future and want to do awesome things make you roll your eyes? How incredibly pathetic and defeatist. Do puppies and anything fun make you roll your eyes too? What a Debbie Downer. SNL has a skit for that.
I really couldn't care less whether Condi speaks at Rutgers, but the pervasive bull**** on this board putting down college students for having an opinion and condescending attitude is really repulsive. It's their commencement and if they have an opinion about who speaks there, good for them. Who cares if it's the same as yours or not? No skin off your nose. Geez.
Last edited by designer_genes; 05-05-2014 at 01:11 PM..
Well, it looks like the leftists are getting what they want: silence from those who they don't agree with.
You flew in from GA with that little nugget of nothing, huh? I would've given you more props for blindly posting "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" or "AMERICA - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!"
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