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Pedro, you and I are often on the same page on many issues.
However, I have to take the opportunity to object to this type of "they have the right to express themselves" response.
(Or they have a "right" to .......whatever).
I see this type of reply from many posters, in many different posts where it's really irrelevant to the topic or questions asked by the OP.
Usually (and certainly in this case) nobody is saying they don't have the "right" to express themselves the way they did.
The topic is whether they should express themselves in this disrespectful manner.
Saying that someone has the right to something when that right is self evident adds nothing to a thread.
:sigh:
It matters not when
It matters not why
It matters not how
It matters not where
People ALWAYS find a reason to denigrate other people's choice and right to protest.
I'm really beginning to think SOME people have a problem with standing up to authority.
It is a shame that those students degraded their degree in the manner they did. Part of being "educated" is knowing how to behave in public. They don't have to agree to anything Pence said but they should have sat there and been respectful. There are times and places to peacefully protest. The graduation ceremony was not one of them.
If I were in a hiring mode and was interviewing a ND grad, I'd ask what they thought of the student protest. If the applicant defended it, I'd thank them for their interest in my firm and wish them luck in their job search, but I would not hire them. I would not hire anyone who lacks the professionalism to know how to act in such settings. I'd be afraid that they'd embarrass my firm in front of clients given their lack of maturity.
Well, let's look at what you have posted for a minute. First of all, they QUIETLY left the area, didn't start screaming or protesting in the usual ways. They simply were not going to be hypocrites and sit and listen to a man they consider dishonest and a pawn of another dishonest man.
Now, about your "interviewing" process. It would be none of your business to interject politics into hiring a qualified applicant. You are trying to impose your views on someone else, and that is just as wrong as what you perceive them as doing. How can you expect to operate a company with only employees who think just the way you do on non work related issues ?
These young people are exercising a very fundamental right, the right to voice their opinion and demonstrate how they feel about important issues. America will be in good hands with people like this taking it through the next decades.
The fact that they walked out and were not meet with water cannons and billy clubs tells me our democracy is healthy. Try this in Russia or China and see how things work out. Pence was the governor of Indiana so those students know exactly what he stands for. There was nothing new to be learned.
And Pence is still Vice President. Lol!! These freakin baby snowflakes walk out on one of the nicest congenial men on the planet. For 8 years conservative student tolerated Michelle and Barack commencement speeches. They sat there and respected the person speaking. Libs know nothing about civility. They preach tolerance but can't let someone with different view speak ?? They call Trump and Pence Nazis, but what they are doing mirrors 1930s Germany more than anything the GOP have done
Bull! In 2009, conservative students heckled Obama interrupting his Notre Dame commencement speech, demonstrated outside of the venue hindering people trying to get in among other things. Unlike the conservatives, the snowflakes were quiet and respectful in the objections.
Bull! In 2009, conservative students heckled Obama interrupting his Notre Dame commencement speech, demonstrated outside of the venue hindering people trying to get in among other things. Unlike the conservatives, the snowflakes were quiet and respectful in the objections.
You tell me which is the liberal and which is the conservative position on these topics. Or better yet, don't: you've already proven you have no idea what you're talking about.
Those poll numbers for the first, second, and fourth items are totally bogus.
The first poll begged the question. True number would be 15%.
The second poll forced a choice from among fewer than all the possibilities. True number would be 0%, since everyone either wants them to have a special kind of status that is superior to that of white citizens or to have no legal status at all. No one wants them to have just plain citizenship.
The last link doesn't explain the poll at all, and it's absurd to think that more than 10% of Americans could oppose the North Carolina bill that left it up to property owners to decide how to handle the bathroom issue. You are full of it.
Of course it's disrespectful to walk out on him, the very nature of it is it's a way of saying F you and that the last time I looked was a sign of disrespect. The office deserves a certain level of respect. I already said that they have the right to do it.
Look what this administration has turned the Presidency into, though. A mockery of the office.
Why would anyone feel like "respecting" that mess?
I really don't have a party and I never have. I've voted for Rs and Ds for president in the past, and that's pretty much what I'd do again, depending on candidate.
Trump et al are simply a dumpster fire.
I guarantee you that if Trump was removed from office and Pence became president, all this furor would calm right down.
I think he got walked out on because he's COMPLICIT with this joke of a president.
I doubt it was because of Pence personally.
We've had conservative VPs before.
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