'Whiteboard girl' harassed for expressing conservative views at University of Chicago...
[thefederalist.com]
The University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics asked students to participate in a digital initiate called “I vote because” on March 2. Students wrote on a whiteboard a brief reason why they vote, but one student was singled out for her conservative beliefs.
Evita Duffy, daughter of former Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., wrote, “I vote because the coronavirus won’t destroy America, but socialism will.”
Duffy received intense backlash from her classmates, including threats and personal attacks. Classmates called her racist, xenophobic, and told her she deserved to be bullied.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button."To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth." - Teddy Roosevelt.
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TimTuolomne
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Mar 10, 2020
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Please drop the first quote, [factcheck.org] . Teddy is a hero of mine and I hate to see him misused.
@ProfBob, if you bother to look into Snopes and Factcheck, one or both are associated with George Soros. Factcheck may not be, however I have found primary sources of information that prove Factcheck to be wrong on several claims. I do not recognize either as a valid source of confirmation. It is my further opinion that Factcheck is merely a tool of censorship of center-conservative points of view.
And if you have studied Roosevelt, you know that he was conservative at first and later became a progressive. We don't get to pick the statements he made that only support the version of him we like best.
@TimTuolomne I decided to see where else I could check the authenticity of the quote. I went to the Theodore Roosevelt Center and searched their digitized records and still no success. Here is a link to the site [theodorerooseveltcenter.org] .
Next time they should make it multiple choice. Only answers that won't melt the snowflakes.
Marcoullier
Level 6
Mar 9, 2020
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I'm sure they'd find a way to get upset and have a meltdown over that even.
It is exhausting that her classmates were stupid enough to react that way but her statement about coronavirus is unfalsifiable and her claim about socialism is historically false (socialist programs in the US, on the whole, increase quality of life when funded and decrease public welfare when defunded). This is a non-story that highlights how myopic everybody in the situation is and it’s annoying that any part of this got loud enough to become a news story.
Pro tip to her classmates: if you’re right, convince people of that and encourage them to vote and enact actual change. Don’t be the perfect crystallization of why the views you hate attract people both intellectually and from an adversarial standpoint because of your behavior.
BG10k
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Mar 9, 2020
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I agree, here is what the institute posted in response to this [facebook.com] . I think that if you want to associate the individual (doesn't say how many responded negatively) students responses with liberals in general, you should attribute any far right comments to liberal points of view to all conservatives. Let's just call out those who actually did it and not blame an entire segment for it!
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