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Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest Trump
NPR ^ | August 20, 2017 | Sarah McCammon

Posted on 08/20/2017 4:16:10 AM PDT by Zakeet

A group of alumni from one of the country's most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school's president for his continued alignment with President Trump.

A small but growing number of Liberty University graduates are preparing to return diplomas to their school. The graduates are protesting university President Jerry Falwell Jr.'s ongoing support for Trump. They began organizing after Trump's divisive remarks about the deadly white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Va.

Chris Gaumer, a former Student Government Association president and 2006 graduate, said it was a simple decision.

"I'm sending my diploma back because the president of the United States is defending Nazis and white supremacists," Gaumer said. "And in defending the president's comments, Jerry Falwell, Jr. is making himself and, it seems to me, the university he represents, complicit."

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: diplomas; falwell; liberalism; libertyu; libertyuniversity; protest; snowflakes
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To: Zakeet

I think these snowflakes are starting to get their arses handed to them big time, people are really really getting sick to death of them and their BS. If you have Facebook, look at this....Antifa page and almost all of the commenters are bashing the hell out of them. I’m seeing that alot now, not just on Facebook, people have had it up to here..........

https://www.facebook.com/BostonAntifa/


21 posted on 08/20/2017 4:33:44 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: Fzob

“I’ll have m-m-my M-M-Mommy dig it out of storage - that she pays for me!!”


22 posted on 08/20/2017 4:37:26 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Fzob
Ditto to your LOL. For God's sake....that pretty much sums of snowflake status right there.

Put your money where your mouth is, kid. If you landed a job because of that degree, then I challenge you to quit and start applying for jobs saying you don't have a college degree.

23 posted on 08/20/2017 4:38:47 AM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: Zakeet

Hey, grant their wishes in full - cancel their degrees so that any records check will show that they did not graduate.


24 posted on 08/20/2017 4:39:45 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Zakeet

Paid #protestitute. These guys are phonies, just like antifa. Just stop writing and covering their stories. As a parent, I know children sometimes stray far from their upbringing.


25 posted on 08/20/2017 4:41:06 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: Zakeet

He shames the university.


26 posted on 08/20/2017 4:42:19 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Zakeet
Send it back and scrub Liberty U from your resume, snowflake
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27 posted on 08/20/2017 4:43:09 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: Zakeet

So what?


28 posted on 08/20/2017 4:46:48 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Zakeet

Soros’ legion is trying to open another front against President Trump among evangelicals

Like Hillary becoming an ordained ‘ minister” stories

Btw
Hillary has been awfully silent since going to Canada
Is Bronco bama also out of the country?


29 posted on 08/20/2017 4:47:50 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: Zakeet

An NPR story and this kid is the only one, so it is a small, but growing number.


30 posted on 08/20/2017 4:50:13 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Tax-chick

Diplomas are paper. I have no idea where mine is. For job applications I just wrote in my alma mater and degree received. Never was asked for the piece of paper and seeing as how I’m retired, never will again (most likely )

Actually with Trump’s school chapter 11, is anyone there to confirm whether someone went there or not?


31 posted on 08/20/2017 4:52:53 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Zakeet

Fools are becoming easier and easier to spot.


32 posted on 08/20/2017 4:53:08 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

Michey D’s don’t require no diploma anyways,.


33 posted on 08/20/2017 4:54:29 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Gen.Blather

I agree. The mass media has an attention span of a three year old. They will soon tire of this issue and move on to other irrelevant ones. The snowflakes will have had their 10 minutes of notoriety and will fade into the trash bin of history.


34 posted on 08/20/2017 4:54:49 AM PDT by Russ
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To: Zakeet

One cannot undo a degree or an education.


35 posted on 08/20/2017 4:56:41 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Zakeet

He should have the sex change operation and become a man.


36 posted on 08/20/2017 4:59:29 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Zakeet

They will “return” a piece of paper but will NOT describe themselves as mere high school grads on job applications. Moreover when potential employees learn of their poor decision making skills that will give them plenty of free time.


37 posted on 08/20/2017 5:00:46 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Zakeet

Well, a diploma from a university isn’t worth much. What were the diplomas for? A six month Bible study?


38 posted on 08/20/2017 5:05:52 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Zakeet

Liberty University, where the students are more interested in pleasing their fellow men than in pleasing God (Who they claimed called them to a life of His service).

“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ” (Galatians 1:10).


39 posted on 08/20/2017 5:06:48 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Zakeet
"I'll have to have my mom dig it out of storage,"

Under his bed, no doubt.

40 posted on 08/20/2017 5:08:22 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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