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A Harvard student's open letter to the delicate flowers of the Ivy League
Fox News ^ | 11/17/16 | Jacob Russell

Posted on 11/17/2016 6:39:24 PM PST by bobk3

So your candidate lost. You have a right to be upset, frustrated and angry, but you also have an obligation to be respectful to others and to the will of the American people. Intellectual hypocrisy continues every day on campuses, where opinions that are not the norm are vilified or silenced.

Imagine if you treated people of different races as you treat people with different opinions. There would be a tremendous outcry! But somehow it is fine to discriminate against those with different views.

Did it ever occur to you that this may be why people voted for Trump? That it might not have been the “racist proclivities” of the U.S. or the “dangerous nationalism” of the people, but that it was people who tell them not to think or speak the way they do.

Trump won, and he did not overthrow the government or kill people to silence them. He won in the standard fashion — by getting 270 votes in the Electoral College. As I said, you have a right to be upset, but what we have on our hands now is an embarrassment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academicbias; snowflakes

1 posted on 11/17/2016 6:39:24 PM PST by bobk3
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To: bobk3

Smart guy


2 posted on 11/17/2016 6:40:22 PM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: RummyChick

This is a profile of the student (in the picture he’s running a race pushing his friend who has cerebral palsy):
http://www.coopercrier.com/news/local_news/ccs-student-russell-is-harvard-bound/article_a2e3de68-b724-51a6-a9f9-a7ea3f414bb8.html


3 posted on 11/17/2016 6:46:47 PM PST by mathprof
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To: Blue Jays

These same words could have been written by me or any in my circle of conservative-leaning friends while we were in high school, fer' chrissakes.
Seems unfortunate that this kid is essentially a "lone voice" among peers.

4 posted on 11/17/2016 6:47:48 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: mathprof

Nice story.

I hope he doesn’t pay too high of a price for his voice right now.


5 posted on 11/17/2016 6:49:28 PM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: bobk3

Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 11/17/2016 6:49:35 PM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: bobk3
to the delicate flowers

Don't be silent, even when it will do you no good.
Your illegal alien classmates are on their own where the law is concerned.

7 posted on 11/17/2016 6:57:25 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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To: bobk3

don’t know if he’s an embarrassed lib or an annoyed conservative, but he writes like an American


8 posted on 11/17/2016 6:57:28 PM PST by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: bobk3
"But somehow it is fine to discriminate against those with different views."

Actually, I'm okay with people discriminating. Every person makes choices (discriminates: Definition 1. recognize a distinction; differentiate.) between what to eat, what to wear, what to say, etc. The word discrimination has been so abused for so many years.

I also have a problem with the word "judge", as in don't judge me. EVERYONE judges every day of their life. Dumbass on the highway? ... that is a mental judgement. Some guy wearing pants down to his knees and thinking he's a dumbass...a mental judgement. Trump is going to kill America?...that is a judgement. Need I give the definition?

We all judge. It's a logical conclusion we come to after looking at the facts as we know them at the moment. We discriminate according to our values, mores, and desires. Are the meaning of these words no longer taught? Rhetorical question.

9 posted on 11/17/2016 7:01:14 PM PST by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: bobk3

Finally, a snowflake in whom there is no guile!


10 posted on 11/17/2016 7:02:19 PM PST by lightman ( Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja?)
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To: bobk3

Liberals are all for diversity as long as you think exactly as they do.


11 posted on 11/17/2016 7:31:44 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: bobk3

This is a well-spoken and sharp young man. I hope he doesn’t get thrown out for taking a contrary stand.


12 posted on 11/17/2016 7:36:59 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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I say we erect a wailing wall in the name of these delicate snowflakes- A Wall where they can go and bawl all day long if they wish- A Wall where they can hug and console each other till the cows come home- infact, And I propose that we erect the wailing wall along the south boarder-


13 posted on 11/17/2016 8:30:30 PM PST by Bob434
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>> You have a right to be upset, frustrated and angry

They’re deranged punks unfit for the life and society the Founding Fathers created.


14 posted on 11/17/2016 8:34:53 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: bobk3

Harvard guy who "gets it."

I posted on my Face Book and Twitter.





15 posted on 11/17/2016 8:42:22 PM PST by onyx (CELEBRATE PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP'S VICTORY DONATE MONTHLY or JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: bobk3

Why are they called snowflakes?


16 posted on 11/17/2016 9:15:05 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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Why are they called snowflakes?

One could say because the are so delicate and fragile, but I tend to disagree with the term. Snowflakes, no two are alike, they are diverse and original. These people are more like lemmings, the epitome of group think, echoing in parrot-like fashion only what they hear.

17 posted on 11/17/2016 9:53:52 PM PST by Zack Attack
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To: bobk3

He sounds sane - must be failing everything except the technical courses.....


18 posted on 11/18/2016 4:08:06 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: bobk3
Good Writing.
The snowflakes (called so because they can't stand heat) need to know how embarrassingly pathetic they look to the world.

19 posted on 11/18/2016 7:52:52 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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